Jeff Wood's Company Buys Machine Tools from Large Producers and Sells

question 206

Multiple Choice

Jeff Wood's company buys machine tools from large producers and sells them to several Midwestern manufacturing companies. The company Jeff works for carries inventories of the tools, which reduces capital requirements for the producers. Jeff's company is an example of a(n) ____ in a distribution channel.

• A) direct distributor
• B) manufacturers' agent
• C) industrial distributor
• D) producers' agent
• E) wholesalers' agent

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