TSIC Activity

47745

Retail sale of second hand books, newspapers, periodicals and magazines

ประกอบกิจการค้า จัดจำหน่ายหนังสือ ตำราเรียน สื่อการเรียนการสอนด้านวิชาการออนไลน์ทุกประเภท

What this activity covers

This activity involves the retail sale of second-hand books, newspapers, periodicals, and magazines.

  • Used books — Retail of second-hand books and novels
  • Textbooks — Retail of used educational textbooks
  • World maps — Retail of second-hand world maps
  • Dictionaries — Retail of used dictionaries
  • Encyclopedias — Retail of second-hand encyclopedias
  • Journals — Retail of used journals
  • Magazines — Retail of second-hand magazines

What companies here also do

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

  • Online sales — Selling books and materials through online platforms
  • International trade — Trading second-hand books across borders

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.

12
active companies operate here
฿18.6Mregistered capital, combined
฿105.6M
Sector revenue · 2025
+169% since 2023
฿2.8M
Net profit · 2025
6 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

New in 2026

0+0.0%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿18.6M+12.1%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

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

  1. 1Khun Por Jai 2559฿39.7M
  2. 2KID VENTURES CO., LTD.฿26.2M
  3. 3AYUTTHAYA PAPER CO., LTD.฿23.3M
  4. 4Garnets D.A.C. (Thailand) Co., Ltd.intl฿5.8M
  5. 5PAWIGORN INTERNATIONAL TRADING CO., LTD.฿4.5M

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Clean Earth Pack Co., Ltd.Saraburi฿5.0M
  2. 2Melda Supply Co., Ltd.Kalasin฿2.0M
  3. 3Garnets D.A.C. (Thailand) Co., Ltd.intlBangkok฿2.0M

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.

4
Registered
since 2022
3
Still active
1
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2023peak 2 in 20232024

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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