Changes among wholesalers in Paris

As a result of rising prices in real estate and changes in production and distribution methods on a global scale, wholesalers which occupied 3,500 ground floor premises on Paris streets at the beginning of the 2000s, occupied no more than 782 in 2023. For a long time, wholesalers were grouped together in sectors of activity, the Sentier (2nd district) and Sedaine-Popincourt (11th) for clothes and textiles, Beaubourg-Temple (3rd) for jewellery, leather goods and shoes, their departure liberated the street level premises of these neighbourhoods.

Based on data from the 2023 survey on commerce (BDCom), carried out by the Paris Urbanism Agency , Apur, in partnership with the City of Paris and the Paris Île-de-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), this study provides an overview of wholesalers in Paris in 2023, maps of the neighbourhoods where they were most often found, descriptions of the activities which are replacing them and feedback on the levers put in place by public players to accompany these transformations.

Linked to the tourist attractiveness of neighbourhoods where wholesale retailers used to be established and the concentration of jobs which characterise these central areas, the new, incoming businesses are, for the most part, retailers made up of destination retailers (62%), local shops and services (17%), and bars-cafes-restaurants (21%).