Sporting and Recreational Goods and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers: Business Name Ideas

What this industry covers

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of sporting goods and accessories; billiard and pool supplies; sporting firearms and ammunition; and/or marine pleasure craft, equipment, and supplies.

Businesses classified here include

• Ammunition, sporting, merchant wholesalers
• Archery equipment merchant wholesalers
• Athletic goods (except apparel, footwear, nonspecialty) merchant wholesalers
• Athletic uniforms merchant wholesalers
• Bait, artificial, merchant wholesalers
• Baseball equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Bicycle tires and tubes merchant wholesalers
• Bicycles (except motorized) merchant wholesalers
• Billiard equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Boat supplies, pleasure, merchant wholesalers
• Boats, pleasure (e.g., canoes, motorboats, sailboats), merchant wholesalers
• Bowling equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Camping equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Casino supplies merchant wholesalers
• Firearms, sporting, merchant wholesalers
• Fishing equipment and supplies (except commercial) merchant wholesalers
• Fitness equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Football equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Gocarts merchant wholesalers
• Golf carts (except motorized passenger) merchant wholesalers
• Golf equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Guns, sporting equipment, merchant wholesalers
• Gymnasium equipment merchant wholesalers
• Hockey equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Hot tubs merchant wholesalers
• Hunting equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
• Jet skis merchant wholesalers
• Marine supplies, pleasure, merchant wholesalers
• Motors, outboard, merchant wholesalers
• Outboard motors merchant wholesalers

Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 423910), U.S. Census Bureau.

Name ideas for sporting and recreational goods and supplies merchant wholesalers

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Name words that fit, with their meanings

• Sporting
• Recreational
• Good
• Supply
• Trade
• Source
• Distribution
• Goods

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 sporting and recreational goods and supplies merchant wholesalers

1. California 927 locations
2. Florida 601 locations
3. Texas 379 locations
4. New York 240 locations
5. Washington 182 locations
6. Colorado 176 locations
7. Georgia 171 locations
8. Illinois 169 locations
9. Ohio 156 locations
10. New Jersey 146 locations

All 50 states

• Alabama (59)
• Alaska (17)
• Arizona (122)
• Arkansas (33)
• California (927)
• Colorado (176)
• Connecticut (56)
• Delaware (12)
• Florida (601)
• Georgia (171)
• Hawaii (28)
• Idaho (51)
• Illinois (169)
• Indiana (93)
• Iowa (48)
• Kansas (37)
• Kentucky (40)
• Louisiana (52)
• Maine (26)
• Maryland (63)
• Massachusetts (89)
• Michigan (121)
• Minnesota (125)
• Mississippi (20)
• Missouri (82)
• Montana (31)
• Nebraska (19)
• Nevada (80)
• New Hampshire (23)
• New Jersey (146)
• New Mexico (13)
• New York (240)
• North Carolina (138)
• North Dakota (13)
• Ohio (156)
• Oklahoma (35)
• Oregon (82)
• Pennsylvania (118)
• Rhode Island (39)
• South Carolina (78)
• South Dakota (17)
• Tennessee (85)
• Texas (379)
• Utah (112)
• Vermont (14)
• Virginia (80)
• Washington (182)
• West Virginia (13)
• Wisconsin (81)
• Wyoming (12)

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