Antitrust Radar

FY2023 acquired-entity profile / published 3-digit NAICS

42442Wholesale trade

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

This release row records 89 adjusted HSR transactions, 11 agency clearances, and 4 Second Requests. It describes acquired-entity classification inside one federal report, not an industry merger rate or a legal antitrust market.

Locate in atlas Compare releases Exact row
Position in FY2023 Table XIRank 4 of 79
Highest adjusted countLowest
Published share
5.1%
+0.8 pp from FY2022
Sector position
2 / 3
47.3% of sector transactions
Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods47.3%
89 row188 sector
Adjusted transactions
89
5.1% published share
Agency clearances
11
9 FTC / 2 DOJ
Second Requests
4
4.5% of row count
Intra-industry flags
5
5.6% of row count
Release continuity
2 / 2
Stable code and label
Position in FY2023 Table XI

Rank 4 of 79

Transactions
89
5.1% share
Clearances
11
9 FTC / 2 DOJ
Second Requests
4
4.5% of row
Intra-industry
5
5.6% of row
Continuity
2 / 2
Stable code and label

Adjacent official releases

Same-code release continuity

Stable code and label

The same 3-digit code and published label appear in FY2023 and FY2024.

FY2023424Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods89 transactions / 5.1%FY2024424Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods67 transactions / 3.4%
Adjusted transactions
FY202389FY202467
-22
Published share
FY20235.1%FY20243.4%
-1.7 pp
Agency clearances
FY202311FY20243
-8
Second Requests
FY20234FY20242
-2
Intra-industry flags
FY20235FY20242
-3

Release-to-release sector shifts aggregate each edition's exact published rows inside stable broad NAICS sectors. They are descriptive changes in the federal review pipeline, not merger rates, market-power measures, or causal estimates. Industry codes and labels that enter, exit, or change between tables remain explicit rather than being silently crosswalked.

Published review-stage record

Agency lanes stay separate

FY2023 / exact Table XI fields

Clearances and Second Requests are administrative review stages. Their counts and row-level rates do not indicate liability, remedy, competitive harm, or agency effectiveness.

Agency clearances11Rank 3 of 79
Federal Trade Commission
9
Department of Justice
2
12.4% clearances / row count
Second Requests4Rank 1 of 79
Federal Trade Commission
3
Department of Justice
1
4.5% Second Requests / row count
Intra-industry flags5Rank 2 of 79
Flagged transactions
5
Other row transactions
84
5.6% of row count

An intra-industry transaction means the acquiring and acquired persons both reported revenue in the same 3-digit NAICS code. It does not establish a horizontal overlap, relevant antitrust market, or competitive effect.

Sector peer field

Wholesale trade

3 published rows / common count scale

Peers share this report's broad NAICS sector. Ordering uses adjusted transaction count within FY2023; it is not a ranking of market power, importance, or enforcement priority.

  1. 01423Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods965.5%
  2. 02424Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods895.1%
  3. 03425Wholesale Electric Markets and Agent and Brokers30.2%
Open the complete sector in the composition atlasPreserve FY2023, sector 42, and selected NAICS 424.

Classification passport

Exact labels before analytical joins

Code identity is not a silent crosswalk

The release label, adjacent-release label, and Census 2022 label are shown independently. A matching code supports navigation; it does not prove statistical continuity when labels or source universes differ.

Selected HSR releaseFY2023 / 424

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

46th Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report (FY 2023)
Adjacent HSR releaseFY2024 / 424

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

Stable code and label
2022 Economic Census2022 / 424

Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods

Same normalized code and label
Economy-wide structure context

Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods

Open Census industry profile
Firms
90,578
Employees
2,341,928
Revenue
$6.2T
CR4
12.5%
HHI
73.6
A NAICS industry is a statistical classification, not a legally defined antitrust market. Use these national revenue concentration measures to screen where deeper product and geographic market analysis may be warranted, not to infer market power or liability.

Evidence custody

One official row, reproducible handoffs

Source checked Aug 14, 2026
Official source

46th Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report (FY 2023)

Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice

Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, 46th Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2023, October 2024.Open source dossier

The FY2023 and FY2024 acquired-entity tables classify adjusted HSR transactions by 3-digit NAICS. They describe the federal review pipeline, not industry-wide merger rates, market definitions, competitive harm, or agency performance. Published row shares are independently rounded to one decimal place and therefore sum to 100.3% and 101.5%, respectively, while each official table total remains 100.0%.