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Real estate and Wholesale and retail trade

Wholesale and retail trade buys from Real estate; wholesale and retail trade depends on real estate.

Real estate (industry) and Wholesale and retail trade (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.6 per ₹100 · Wholesale and retail trade buys from Real estate

Wholesale and retail trade buys goods or services from Real estate; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.6 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.6 of every ₹100 of Wholesale and retail trade output, all rounds
  • ₹0.5 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Real estate → Wholesale and retail trade

5 of the enterprise types in Wholesale and retail trade depend on real estate.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Retail warehouse and fulfilment operators (3PL): warehouse parks (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Mall owners and retail real-estate developers: development and leasing (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Cash-and-carry and B2B wholesale platforms: large depot sites (criticality 2 of 5)
  • Supermarket and hypermarket chains: store sites (criticality 2 of 5)
  • Specialty fashion and electronics chains: mall and high-street units (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.