Commission Agents in the Button and Brass Trade a Century Ago

Theodore F. Marburg

Business History Review, 1942, vol. 16, issue 1, 8-18

Abstract: Commission agents are of minor significance in the distribution of semi-manufactured goods today. Data from the Census of Manufactures reveal that in 1929 only a small portion of manufacturers' sales of buttons, and of non-ferrous metal alloys and their products, was made through commission houses and agents. Approximately two thirds of such sales were made directly to industrial or other large consumers and one quarter to wholesale merchants. This condition differs markedly from that which prevailed a century ago.

Date: 1942
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