NAICS 42494

Tobacco & Tobacco Product Merchant Wholesalers

Key Figures

Establishments
1,784
Census CBP · 2023
Employment
60,669
Census CBP · 2023
Market size
$143.6B
Census Economic Census · 2022

Figures are published for NAICS 42494 directly.

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Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, snuff, cigars, and pipe tobacco.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2017 NAICS Definitions. Public domain. Census publishes this definition under NAICS 424940, the only detailed industry in this group.

Which code does this activity belong in?

Tobacco and Tobacco Product Merchant Wholesalers distribute tobacco products including cigarettes, snuff, cigars, and pipe tobacco to retailers and other customers. This code is distinct from Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, which handles agricultural inputs; Book, Periodical, and Newspaper Merchant Wholesalers, which distributes printed media; Flower, Nursery Stock, and Florists' Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, which supplies horticultural goods; Paint, Varnish, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, which handles coating products; and Other Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods Merchant Wholesalers, which covers remaining nondurable products not classified elsewhere.

VantaInsights Analysis AI-drafted

Written for NAICS 424940, the only detailed industry in this group.

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