Distributors can be characterized as
A) the company's salesforce for industrial products.
B) the end users for a company's product.
C) independent sales organizations that sell complementary, but noncompeting, products from different manufacturers.
D) channel middlemen that take title to the goods that they market to end users.
E) channel middlemen that do not take title to the goods.

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Distributors are channel middlemen that take title to the goods that they market to end users. They purchase large quantities of products directly from manufacturers and then resell them to retailers or end-users.

Distributors Can Be Characterized as