423850 Service Establishment Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of specialized equipment and supplies of the type used by service establishments (except specialized equipment and supplies used in offices, stores, hotels, restaurants, schools, health and medical facilities, photographic facilities, and specialized equipment used in transportation and construction activities).

Examples Census gives

• Amusement park equipment merchant wholesalers
• Beauty parlor equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Car wash equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Drycleaning equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Voting machines merchant wholesalers
• Janitorial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Undertakers' equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Upholsterers' equipment and supplies (except fabrics) merchant wholesalers
• Water treatment equipment, municipal, merchant wholesalers

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Merchant wholesale distribution of janitorial and automotive chemicals are classified in Industry 424690, Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of piece goods, fabrics, knitting yarns (except industrial), thread and other notions are classified in Industry 424310, Piece Goods, Notions, and Other Dry Goods Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of industrial yarns are classified in Industry 424990, Other Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of plumbing and hydronic heating equipment are classified in Industry 423720, Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies (Hydronics) Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of grave markers, monuments, and tombstones are classified in Industry 423990, Other Miscellaneous Durable Goods Merchant Wholesalers.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 423850

The Census index assigns these 41 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Amusement park equipment merchant wholesalers
• Barber shop equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Beauty parlor equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Boot and shoe cut stock and findings merchant wholesalers
• Brooms (except household-type) merchant wholesalers
• Burial caskets merchant wholesalers
• Car wash equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Carnival equipment merchant wholesalers
• Carpet cleaning equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Caskets, burial, merchant wholesalers
• Chairs, hydraulic, beauty and barber shop, merchant wholesalers
• Clothes dryers (except household-type) merchant wholesalers
• Coffins merchant wholesalers
• Drycleaning equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Fare boxes, public transit vehicle, merchant wholesalers
• Firefighting equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Floor maintenance equipment merchant wholesalers
• Funeral home supplies merchant wholesalers
• Furriers equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Hair preparations, professional, merchant wholesalers
• Janitorial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Laundry machinery, equipment, and supplies, commercial, merchant wholesalers
• Law enforcement equipment (except safety) merchant wholesalers
• Locksmith equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Manicurists supplies merchant wholesalers
• Massage equipment merchant wholesalers
• Meters, parking, merchant wholesalers
• Mops, industrial, merchant wholesalers
• Padding, upholstery filling, merchant wholesalers
• Patterns, shoe, merchant wholesalers
• Pressure washers merchant wholesalers
• Service establishment equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Shoe repair materials merchant wholesalers
• Sprinkler systems, fire, merchant wholesalers
• Tailors' supplies merchant wholesalers
• Taxidermy supplies merchant wholesalers
• Undertakers' equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Upholsterers' equipment and supplies (except fabrics) merchant wholesalers
• Vacuum cleaning systems, commercial, merchant wholesalers
• Voting machines merchant wholesalers
• Water treatment equipment, municipal, merchant wholesalers

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 423850

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 423850, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 125 employees. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 4649, 4659), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 46491Wholesale of musical instrumentsUK SIC
• 46499Wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments) n.e.c.UK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

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