XYZ & ABC XYZ Furniture Is a Manufacturer of Contemporary Furniture That Sells

Multiple Choice

XYZ & ABC
XYZ Furniture is a manufacturer of contemporary furniture that sells its products through retail stores throughout the country. XYZ management wants to explore different channels of distribution and feels that the company should use all available outlets to sell its products. ABC Distributors has brought a proposal to the company to be its wholesaler. As a wholesaler, ABC represents many different companies and sells various products to many different retailers. ABC hopes that, with such a wide variety, the company will be able to keep profits high if one product or manufacturer should fail.
-Refer to XYZ & ABC. XYZ uses middlemen that take title to products; thus they would be referred to as

A) merchant middlemen.
B) transport middlemen.
C) selective middlemen.
D) functional middlemen.
E) direct middlemen.