Industry Description
Establishments primarily engaged in the wholesale distribution of commercial and related machines and equipment, not elsewhere classified, such as commercial cooking and food service equipment; partitions, shelving, lockers, and store fixtures; electrical signs; and balances and scales, except laboratory.
Business Examples
Common types of business activities within US SIC 5046 - Commercial Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified are:
- Balances, except laboratory-wholesale
- Coffee urns, commercial-wholesale
- Cooking equipment, commercial-wholesale
- Fixtures, store, not refrigerated-wholesale
- Food warming equipment, commercial-wholesale
- Lockers, not refrigerated-wholesale
- Mannequins-wholesale
- Merchandising machines, automatic-wholesale
- Neon signs-wholesale
- Ovens, microwave: commercial-wholesale
- Partitions-wholesale
- Phonographs, coin-operated-wholesale
- Scales, except laboratory-wholesale
- Shelving-wholesale
- Signs, electrical-wholesale
- Soda fountain fixtures, except refrigerated-wholesale
- Vending machines-wholesale
IBISWorld Industry Research Report
Restaurant & Hotel Equipment Wholesaling in the US (42344)
Revenue 2025
$40.3bn
Growth 2025
0.66%
Key Trends
The state of the economy and travel-related trends, drive wholesalers' performance
The coronavirus pandemic outbreak generated the largest annual revenue contraction in recent history
Consumer spending on discretionary restaurant and hotel visits and domestic travel is anticipated to increase following the coronavirus pandemic
Products and Services
US-SIC Hierarchy 5046 - Commercial Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified
US-SIC Code 5046 - Commercial Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified sits in the 2-digit Commercial Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified sector. US SIC codes can be 2 to 8 digits and the further along the hierarchy, the more detailed and specific the category will be.
Division: F
Division Title: Wholesale Trade
2 Digits 3 Digits 4 Digits
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501 Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies
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502 Furniture and Home Furnishings
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503 Lumber and Other Construction Materials
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504 Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies
- 5043 Photographic Equipment and Supplies
- 5044 Office Equipment
- 5045 Computers and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software
- 5046 Commercial Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified
- 5047 Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies
- 5048 Ophthalmic Goods
- 5049 Professional Equipment and Supplies, Not Elsewhere Classified
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505 Metals and Minerals, Except Petroleum
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506 Electrical Goods
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507 Hardware, and Plumbing and Heating Equipment
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508 Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies
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509 Miscellaneous Durable Goods
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511 Paper and Paper Products
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512 Drugs, Drug Proprietaries, and Druggists' Sundries
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513 Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions
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514 Groceries and Related Products
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515 Farm-product Raw Materials
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516 Chemicals and Allied Products
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517 Petroleum and Petroleum Products
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518 Beer, Wine, and Distilled Alcoholic Beverages
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519 Miscellaneous Non-durable Goods
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Extended US-SIC Hierarchy for 5046 - Commercial Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified
For business marketing and targeting, US SIC Codes have been extended to provide more specific classifications within US-SIC 5046 - Commercial Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified. Extended US SIC Codes are being continuously updated to reflect the current business environment.
6 Digit SIC Codes
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504601 Food processing equipment & supls (whol)
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504602 Display fixtures & materials (wholesale)
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504603 Partitions (wholesale)
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504604 Restaurant equipment & supplies (whol)
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504605 Racks-industrial (wholesale)
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504606 Shelving-commercial & industrial (whol)
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504607 Scales (wholesale)
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504608 Show cases (wholesale)
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504609 Vending machines supplies & parts (whol)
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504610 Store fixtures (wholesale)
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504611 Racks (wholesale)
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504612 Vending machines-wholesale
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504613 Shelving (wholesale)
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504614 Juice extractors (wholesale)
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504615 Mannequins-display fixture (wholesale)
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504616 Dehydrating equipment & supplies (whol)
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504617 Dryers-hand (wholesale)
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504618 Scoreboards (wholesale)
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504619 Dishwashing machines-commercial (whol)
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504620 Doughnut machines & supplies (wholesale)
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504621 Office partitions (wholesale)
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504622 Display designers & producers-wholesale
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504623 Dress forms-wholesale
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504624 Lockers-wholesale
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504625 Restaurant equipment & supls-used (whol)
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504626 Restaurant fixtures-used (wholesale)
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504627 Scales-used (wholesale)
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504628 Food preservation equip & supls (whol)
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504630 Parking meters (wholesale)
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504631 Whipped cream dispensers (wholesale)
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504633 Food mixes (wholesale)
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504634 Frankfurter stand equipment (wholesale)
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504635 Liquor control systems (wholesale)
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504636 Dispensing devices (wholesale)
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504637 Display fixtures & materials-used (whol)
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504638 Carts (display-wholesale)
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504639 Meat patty molding machines (wholesale)
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504640 Meat processing equipment (wholesale)
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504642 Signs-machines & supplies (wholesale)
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504643 Vending brokers
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504644 Electronic scoreboards & signs (whol)
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504645 Work benches (wholesale)
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504646 Yogurt equipment-sales & service (whol)
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504647 Shopping carts & baskets-wholesale
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504648 Showroom equip & supplies (wholesale)
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504649 Neon signs (wholesale)
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504650 Lockers-used (wholesale)
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504651 Safe deposit box-sales (wholesale)
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504652 Art galleries & museums equip & supplies
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504653 Appliances-commercial/ind-sales/rpr
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504654 Jewelry display units
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504656 Lighting-marquee & display
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504657 Supermarket equipment sales & service
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504699 Commercial equipment nec (wholesale)
8 Digit SIC Codes
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50460000 Commercial equipment, nec
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50460100 Store fixtures and display equipment
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50460101 Display equipment, except refrigerated
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50460102 Mannequins
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50460103 Neon signs
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50460104 Partitions
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50460105 Shelving, commercial and industrial
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50460106 Signs, electrical
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50460107 Store equipment
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50460108 Store fixtures
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50460200 Coin-operated equipment
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50460201 Merchandising machines
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50460202 Phonographs, coin-operated
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50460203 Vending machines, coin-operated
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50460300 Commercial cooking and food service equipment
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50460301 Bakery equipment and supplies
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50460302 Coffee brewing equipment and supplies
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50460303 Cooking equipment, commercial
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50460304 Food warming equipment
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50460305 Ovens, microwave: commercial
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50460306 Restaurant equipment and supplies, nec
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50460307 Soda fountain fixtures, except refrigerated
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50469900 Commercial equipment, nec
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50469901 Balances, excluding laboratory
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50469902 Coin counters
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50469903 Hotel equipment and supplies
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50469904 Lockers, not refrigerated
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50469905 Parking meters
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50469906 Price marking equipment and supplies
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50469907 Scales, except laboratory
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50469908 Store machines
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50469909 Taxi meters
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50469910 Teaching machines, electronic
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