TSIC Activity

47999

Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets, not elsewhere classified

ประกอบกิจการจำหน่ายสินค้าอุปโภค บริโภค เครื่องดื่ม และอาหารสำเร็จรูปผ่านระบบตู้ขายสินค้าอัตโนมัติ

What this activity covers

This activity involves retail sales conducted outside traditional stores, including street sales and vending machines.

  • Street sales — Retail trade conducted on the street or at homes
  • Vending machine sales — Sales through automated machines
  • Auction sales — Retail auctions without other shops
  • Food and beverage sales — Includes retail of food, drinks, and tobacco
  • Clothing and textiles — Sales of clothing, footwear, and leather goods
  • Cosmetics and fragrances — Retail of beauty products and perfumes
  • Pharmaceutical goods — Includes medical and health-related products

What companies here also do

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

  • Wholesale activities — Engaging in wholesale of various consumer goods
  • Vending machine manufacturing — Manufacturing and installing vending machines

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.

856
active companies operate here
฿4.2Bregistered capital, combined
฿14.4B
Sector revenue · 2025
+89% since 2023
฿966.2M
Net profit · 2025
344 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
2%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿5.0M foreign฿227.8M Thai

Almost entirely Thai-held — little foreign capital enters here.

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

New in 2026

66+407.7%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿4.2B-24.6%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

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

  1. 1Unicorn (Thailand) Co., Ltd.intl฿2.8B
  2. 2WHITE LABEL AGENCY CO., LTD.฿1.9B
  3. 3Fort Vending Co., Ltd.฿1.6B
  4. 41577 Home Shopping Co., Ltd.฿1.0B
  5. 5Central Kitchen Food and Marketing Co., Ltd.฿472.7M

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Fort Vending Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿1.4B
  2. 2Vending Plus Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿300.0M
  3. 3Fort Smart Distribution Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿200.0M

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.

248
Registered
since 2022
226
Still active
22
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 82 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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