THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

46421

Wholesale of electric household appliances and consumer electronics (except lighting equipment)

ประกอบกิจการค้า เครื่องเคหภัณฑ์ เครื่องเรือน เฟอร์นิเจอร์ เครื่องแก้ว เครื่องครัว ตู้เย็น เครื่องปรับอากาศ เครื่องฟอกอากาศ พัดลม เครื่องดูดอากาศ หม้อหุงข้าวไฟฟ้า เตารีดไฟฟ้า เครื่องทำความร้อน เครื่องท

What this activity covers

Wholesale of household electrical appliances and consumer electronics, excluding lighting equipment.

  • Household Electrical Appliances — Refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and similar items
  • Consumer Electronics — Televisions, audio systems, and video recorders
  • Kitchen Appliances — Blenders, juicers, and electric cookers
  • Heating Appliances — Electric heaters and ovens
  • Personal Care Appliances — Hair dryers, electric toothbrushes, and similar items

What companies here also do

Seen in real company registrations under this code — beyond the official definition, so licensing may differ.

  • Air Conditioning Services — Installation and maintenance of air conditioning systems
  • Electrical Components Trade — Selling electrical components and related appliances
  • Import and Export — Trading in electrical and electronic appliances

Not included here

  • Wholesale sewing machines View 46499 activities
  • Wholesale of photographic and optical equipment (except digital cameras) See activity 46491
  • Wholesale of telecommunication equipment. See 46522 activities.

Foreign ownership

List 3: Restricted, FBL/BOI route availableinherited from 46

Wholesale of goods of all kinds, where the minimum capital per store is below the level prescribed in the Act

Not a hard restriction — only applies while under-capitalised. A foreign-majority wholesaler is exempt from this List 3 item (no Foreign Business Licence needed) once minimum registered capital reaches the Act's threshold, typically THB 100 million per store. Verify current ministerial-regulation figures.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 3 (15)Routes: Foreign Business Licence, BOI promotion, US Treaty of Amity

Auto-mapped, verify against the Act. These TSIC mappings are indicative, not legal advice; the schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority. See the full foreign ownership reference.

Industry at a glance

as of 23 ก.ค. 69

The whole registered industry under this activity, every registration year, from the DBD DataWarehouse.

3,212
active companies operate here
฿26.0Bregistered capital, combined
฿239.7B
Sector revenue · 2025
-1% since 2023
฿5.8B
Net profit · 2025
1,367 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
53%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿209.4M foreign฿182.6M Thai

Foreigners are strongly represented in new investment under this activity.

1 of the 5 largest companies here are foreign-owned Thailand subsidiaries.

New in 2026

193+65.0%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿26.0B+6.3%

since year-end

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Dao Nuea Special Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿3.0B
  2. 2Bangkok Plast (2014) Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿1.0B
  3. 3Similar Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿1.0B

Source: Department of Business Development DataWarehouse. Financial figures are combined totals of companies that filed statements; revenue and profit shown for the latest three reporting years.

Companies registered since 2022

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New DBD registrations under this activity since 2022, the period the registry snapshot covers, not the full historical register.

836
Registered
since 2022
782
Still active
54
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 194 in 20242026

Largest active companies by registered capital

Source: Department of Business Development (DBD) new-registration records, 2022 to present. Counts cover companies first registered in that window, reflect the latest snapshot load, and may lag the live register.

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