Wholesale and retail companies in Guayas, Ecuador

Guayas has 43,706 wholesale and retail company records in ISIC section G (wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles), 21,244 of them active, according to the SRI Catastro RUC as of 2026-10-01. That is 42.4% of the section in Ecuador and makes Guayas the largest of 24 provinces for wholesale and retail. The sector is over-represented here: section G is 23.7% of all records in Guayas against 18.1% nationally, a location quotient of 1.31.

Guayaquil concentrates 83.0% of the active companies, followed by Samborondon (1,330) and Daule (683); the three together hold 92.5%. The median active company is 5.8 years old; 10% were registered in the last year and 28% in the last three. In the 12 months to September 2026, 2,095 new wholesale and retail businesses were registered in Guayas, +4.1% on the previous 12 months (national section G: +4.5%). By ISIC division, 46 (wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles) is 64.4% of the records and 47 (retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles) 25.9%.

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.