Wholesale and retail companies in Maule, Chile

Maule has 22,192 wholesale and retail company records in ISIC section G (wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles), 21,820 of them active, according to the RES (datos.gob.cl) + SII nómina as of 2026-08-03. That is 5.1% of the section in Chile and makes Maule the 4th largest of 16 regions for wholesale and retail. Its weight in the local economy is close to the national mix: 13.5% of Maule's records against 13.0% nationally (location quotient 1.04).

Talca concentrates 26.5% of the active companies, followed by Curico (4,667) and Linares (1,979); the three together hold 56.9%. The median active company is 4.3 years old; 14% were registered in the last year and 38% in the last three. In the 12 months to July 2026, 2,721 new wholesale and retail businesses were registered in Maule, +2.0% on the previous 12 months (national section G: +3.2%). By ISIC division, 47 (retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles) is 59.0% of the records and 46 (wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles) 28.8%. Size is known for 46% of the active companies; 68% of those are micro and 701 are medium or large.

The largest section everywhere. Division 46 (wholesale) is the B2B half: distributors and importers that payments, trade-finance, logistics and B2B-marketplace vendors target. Division 47 (retail) is the merchant universe for payments, POS and e-commerce enablement. 45 holds dealerships and repair shops. Filter by division first; the section total is too broad for any single campaign.