TSIC Activity

47111

Supermarkets

ประกอบกิจการร้านขายปลีกสินค้าทั่วไป ร้านสะดวกซื้อ มินิมาร์ท ซุปเปอร์มาร์เก็ต ซุปเปอร์สโตร์

What this activity covers

Retail stores selling daily necessities, including food and household items.

  • Dried food — Includes packaged and preserved food items.
  • Fresh food — Includes meat, vegetables, and fruits.
  • Ready-to-eat foods — Includes prepared meals and snacks.
  • Household items — Includes non-food daily necessities.
  • Consumer goods retail — Includes various types of consumer products.

What companies here also do

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

  • Convenience stores — Includes smaller retail outlets for daily needs.
  • Wholesale distribution — Includes bulk selling of consumer goods.
  • Coffee shops — Includes on-site beverage sales.

Foreign ownership

List 3: Restricted, FBL/BOI route availableinherited from 47

Retail sale of goods of all kinds, where the aggregate minimum capital or 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 retailer is exempt from this List 3 item (no Foreign Business Licence needed) once registered capital meets the Act's minimum, typically THB 100 million in total and THB 20 million per store. Verify current ministerial-regulation figures.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 3 (14)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.

963
active companies operate here
฿14.6Bregistered capital, combined
฿199.0B
Sector revenue · 2025
+80% since 2023
฿6.2B
Net profit · 2025
470 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
11%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿8.0M foreign฿65.3M Thai

Foreigners are actively investing in this activity.

New in 2026

43+168.8%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿14.6B+31.4%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

Latest filed-year revenue, not a multi-year total

  1. 1C.J. Express Group Co., Ltd.฿79.8B
  2. 2Central Food Retail Co., Ltd.฿51.4B
  3. 3Villa Market JP Co., Ltd.฿7.9B
  4. 4Foodland Supermarket Co., Ltd.฿5.9B
  5. 5AEON (Thailand) Co., Ltd.฿4.4B

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1C.J. Express Group Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿2.9B
  2. 2Central Food Retail Co., Ltd.Nonthaburi฿2.0B
  3. 3By Smart Plus Co., Ltd.Khon Kaen฿2.0B

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.

230
Registered
since 2022
208
Still active
22
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 67 in 20232026

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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