TSIC Activity
Retail sale via stalls and markets of books, newspapers, periodicals and magazines
การขายปลีกหนังสือหนังสือพิมพ์วารสารและนิตยสาร บนแผงลอยและตลาด
What this activity covers
This activity involves the retail sale of various printed materials at stalls and markets.
- Books — Retail sale of novels, textbooks, and encyclopedias
- Newspapers — Retail sale of daily and weekly publications
- Magazines — Retail sale of periodicals and journals
- World Maps — Retail sale of geographical maps
- Dictionaries — Retail sale of language reference books
Foreign ownership
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.
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. 69The whole registered industry under this activity, every registration year, from the DBD DataWarehouse.
net profitrevenue
Foreign investment
new registrations · 2026 YTDBased on few new registrations this year — read as a rough signal only.
New in 2026
registrations, YTD
Registered capital
since year-end
Largest by revenue
Latest filed-year revenue, not a multi-year total
Largest by registered capital
- 1Kang Suan Culture and Education (Thailand) Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿43.0M
- 2Sathaporn Books Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿21.0M
- 3BIG BAD WOLF BOOKS (THAILAND) CO., LTD.intlChiang Mai฿3.0M
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
Browse allNew DBD registrations under this activity since 2022, the period the registry snapshot covers, not the full historical register.
New registrations per year
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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