Wholesale and retail companies in Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Santiago Metropolitan Region has 221,317 wholesale and retail company records in ISIC section G (wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles), 217,586 of them active, according to the RES (datos.gob.cl) + SII nómina as of 2026-08-03. That is 50.9% of the section in Chile and makes Santiago Metropolitan Region the largest of 16 regions for wholesale and retail. Its weight in the local economy is close to the national mix: 13.7% of Santiago Metropolitan Region's records against 13.0% nationally (location quotient 1.06).

The city of Santiago concentrates 16.2% of the active companies, followed by Providencia (31,776) and Las Condes (23,230); the three together hold 41.5%. The median active company is 5.1 years old; 12% were registered in the last year and 31% in the last three. In the 12 months to July 2026, 22,097 new wholesale and retail businesses were registered in Santiago Metropolitan Region, +3.3% on the previous 12 months (national section G: +3.2%). By ISIC division, 47 (retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles) is 63.8% of the records and 46 (wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles) 26.0%. Size is known for 45% of the active companies; 65% of those are micro and 8,636 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.