Middlemen, Middleman
middlemen, middleman (noun) -
a. A person who buys from producers and sells to consumers.
b. A buyer and seller of goods and services located somewhere between producer ans consumer.
c. A person who helps in negotiate between people who don't want to meet each other.
act as a middleman
cut out the middleman
financial middlemen
shoulder out the financial middleman
cut out the middleman's profits
sell through middlemen
wares sold by middlemen
eliminate the middleman
bypass the middlemen in the chain of distribution
middlemen in the chain of distribution
sell them direct to the buyer without involving middlemen
middlemen and intermediaries
middlemen and suppliers
pay a commission to middlemen
utilise a middleman
exclude a middlemen from a sales channel
deal through a middleman
done through a middleman
business done through a middleman
manufacturer sells through middlemen
rely on the services of a middleman
commercial middlemen
shady middlemen
shady middlemen who trade in dubious goods
shady middlemen who don't asking where it came from
monopolistic price-fixing of middlemen
call themselves middlemen
cutting out the middleman and selling direct
Example sentences:
* "Should goods be sold through middlemen or direct to customers?"
* "The strategy of the company is to cut out the middleman and sell directly to the customer."
She is acting as middleman in the deal.
* Our company sells mostly through middlemen since we only have a few sales people.
* "The more procedures which eliminated middlemen ensured that the price of the finished product could be reduced."
* "Their rates tend to be lower because they don't have to pay commission to middlemen."
* "He went from the reputable experts to the shadier middlemen, who traded in dubious goods, and from them to those who traded in anything without asking where it came from."
* A decision was also taken, early on, to deal through a middleman.
* Business is now done through a middleman, an outsider with whom he does not have a personal long-standing relationship.
* "Technology is making its own bid to shoulder out the financial middleman .
* "Quiet, insensitive and inhuman, modern technology is making its own bid to shoulder out the financial middleman."
* "People now speak of an irreversible decline of the middleman, the suave dealmaker who carves a chunk out of the real workers' profits by flitting with bright notions from door to door."
* "Cut out middleman's profits and buy direct from the manufacturer is a phrase often seen in newspaper advertisements, implying that the retailing and wholesaling functions are inefficient."
* "It cuts out the middleman."
* "Cut out the costly and ignorant middleman."
* "The guy you mentioned in your story about high-tech learning, is living in fantasy land if he thinks education can cut out the middleman."
* "Not for the first time did he play his skilful middleman's role."
* "The list prices are nearly always cheaper because the middleman, the dealer is missing."
* The company aims to maintain a philosophy of value for money by cutting out the middleman and selling direct, either through their own stores or by mail order, which will keep prices down to a minimum.
* "Manufacturers of goods such as machine tools, computers, ships and other large or expensive items tend to move them direct to the buyer without involving middlemen or intermediaries."
* "Once a relatively restricted and disreputable segment of society, the class of middlemen has grown larger and larger until now we are all middlemen, selling to others something we do not own, something we have not made."
* "Like the wares of other middlemen, there is something synthetic and not quite genuine about her product."
* Manufacturers can exercise greater control over their sales effort when not relying on middlemen.
* "Most dealers invariably male and calling themselves middlemen, consultants or businessmen tend to keep their dealings quiet and work on a commission basis rather than actually buying the hardware themselves."
* "An indirect channel utilises intermediaries or middlemen, such as wholesalers."
* "The middlemen may sometimes be excluded from a channel, as in most industrial marketing, where direct channels from manufacturer to customer are employed."
* "Why do so many suppliers of goods and services still rely on the services of middlemen?"
* "She'll act as a middleman on deals for anyone who offers enough money."
* "Once the market situation (customers, competitors, suppliers, middlemen etc) has been identified and evaluated, and once the decision has been made to penetrate, or develop, a particular market, then the role of the marketing mix is crucial."
* The choice of channels utilised by a producer is determined ultimately by the customer, and in recent years there has been a trend towards shorter channels, as customers, especially in consumer markets, realise that there are price advantages to be gained when middlemen, or retailers, are by-passed in the chain of distribution.
* "The hot, hot multimedia system out there right now was developed by Robert Abel, the noted Hollywood middleman and go-getter extraordinaire."
* "The regulatory body of middlemen who sell investment and insurance products, is attempting to require that these intermediaries hold professional indemnity insurance cover through a centralised scheme provided by the regulatory body."
* The middlemen who organized supplies of these crops for European traders were not only accumulators of capital but also invested in new opportunities, such as that created by the demand for cocoa in the 1890s."
* "My agent is not the brightest of creatures, though like many middlemen in most trades he is usually able to hide this big hole in his mind with his trendy patter and strategic placing of the latest fashionable phrase or concept."
* "He established a dummy Swiss company, Lake Resources Inc, through which he laundered vast sums of cash from shady middlemen and arms dealers, right-wing American bigots, and the enormous profits out of the arms' shipments to the Iranians, who had paid twice the going rate for what they bought."
* This enabled the barley growers to organise themselves effectively to protest to the authorities about their loss of land, and to challenge the monopolistic price-fixing of middlemen.
* "Operating with relatively little capital, aided by credit, with a small mark-up in prices but with rapid turnover of capital, these petty commercial middlemen penetrated deep into the village, constantly drawing the rural area into the orbit of cash turnover, increasing the role of the market in the economy of the village, and augmenting the volume of goods available both for domestic and foreign commerce."
* "These cottagers worked for middlemen known as baghosiers who were linked with the largest employers in town or with small rural factories nearby."
* "This had included restricting the activities of middlemen who were suspected of enhancing prices and of allowing the fixing of prices.
* "Here the manufacturer sells through a limited number of middlemen who are chosen because of their special abilities or facilities to enable the product to be marketed more effectively."
