NAICS 454110 · Retail Trade
Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses: Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 55,633 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing all types of merchandise using nonstore means, such as catalogs, toll free telephone numbers, or electronic media, such as interactive television or the Internet. Included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in retailing from catalog showrooms of mail-order houses.
Businesses classified here include
- Auctions, Internet retail
- Audio and video content downloading retail sales sites
- Book clubs, not publishing, mail-order
- Business to Consumer retail sales Internet sites
- Catalog (i.e., order-taking) offices of mail-order houses
- Collectors' items, mail-order houses
- Computer software, mail-order houses
- Direct mailers (i.e., selling own merchandise)
- Electronic auctions, retail
- E-tailers
- Institutional pharmacies, off-site, exclusively on Internet
- Institutional pharmacies, off-site, mail-order
- Internet auctions, retail
- Internet retail sales sites
- Mail-order houses
- Order-taking offices of mail-order houses
- Prerecorded tape, compact disc, and record mail-order houses
- Television order, home shopping
- Web retailers
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 454110), U.S. Census Bureau.
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U.S. business numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
Top states for electronic shopping and mail-order houses
- California 9,522 locations
- Florida 5,879 locations
- New York 4,523 locations
- Texas 4,054 locations
- New Jersey 1,770 locations
- Georgia 1,766 locations
- Illinois 1,686 locations
- North Carolina 1,600 locations
- Pennsylvania 1,595 locations
- Washington 1,431 locations
All 51 states
- Alabama (415)
- Alaska (43)
- Arizona (1,363)
- Arkansas (295)
- California (9,522)
- Colorado (1,295)
- Connecticut (411)
- Delaware (347)
- District of Columbia (66)
- Florida (5,879)
- Georgia (1,766)
- Hawaii (180)
- Idaho (466)
- Illinois (1,686)
- Indiana (745)
- Iowa (368)
- Kansas (387)
- Kentucky (414)
- Louisiana (320)
- Maine (220)
- Maryland (640)
- Massachusetts (997)
- Michigan (1,163)
- Minnesota (862)
- Mississippi (186)
- Missouri (867)
- Montana (210)
- Nebraska (272)
- Nevada (878)
- New Hampshire (257)
- New Jersey (1,770)
- New Mexico (165)
- New York (4,523)
- North Carolina (1,600)
- North Dakota (57)
- Ohio (1,351)
- Oklahoma (386)
- Oregon (953)
- Pennsylvania (1,595)
- Rhode Island (122)
- South Carolina (567)
- South Dakota (131)
- Tennessee (847)
- Texas (4,054)
- Utah (1,210)
- Vermont (138)
- Virginia (1,017)
- Washington (1,431)
- West Virginia (91)
- Wisconsin (891)
- Wyoming (214)