TSIC Activity

47114

Grocery stores

ประกอบกิจการร้านขายของชำ สินค้าอุปโภค บริโภค ทุกชนิด

What this activity covers

Small family-run retail stores selling daily necessities and consumer goods.

  • Grocery store operations — Running traditional small retail stores selling food and essentials
  • Retail of daily necessities — Selling items like rice, flour, and spices
  • Consumer goods sales — Offering various household items and goods

What companies here also do

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

  • Minimart operations — Running small convenience stores
  • Wholesale distribution — Distributing beverages and household goods

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.

1,171
active companies operate here
฿3.7Bregistered capital, combined
฿36.3B
Sector revenue · 2025
-21% since 2023
฿796.4M
Net profit · 2025
585 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
6%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿5.5M foreign฿83.2M Thai

Largely domestic, with some foreign investment.

New in 2026

74+105.6%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿3.7B+0.3%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

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

  1. 1Jakota Brothers Trading Co., Ltd.฿5.0B
  2. 2Watcharawan (2008) Co., Ltd.฿3.2B
  3. 3Leewath Thaworn฿2.2B
  4. 4RCT Consumer Co., Ltd.฿2.2B
  5. 5Yong Seng International Trading Co., Ltd.฿1.4B

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Sear Hypermart Co., Ltd.Pathum Thani฿452.0M
  2. 2Jakota Brothers Trading Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿120.0M
  3. 3Farmkaset ChaiNakhon Sawan฿110.0M

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.

311
Registered
since 2022
282
Still active
29
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 84 in 20242026

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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