What is the best translation for the German word "Bündler", meaning an intermediary merchant for agricultural goods and produce?
I'm looking for a good translation of the German word "Bündler" which in our context is an intermediary merchant for agricultural goods and produce.
DeepL offered me the word "bundler" but I'm reluctant to use it because I'm finding so few uses of the word.
The "Bündler" is somebody who may or may not have agriculture of their own. They usually have contracts with smaller farmers that will produce for them and in turn can offer larger amounts and more reliable supply to bigger buyers that are unwilling to search for locale produce on their own.
Solution 1:
Not farm-specific, but consolidator seems apt. TFD has this at consolidate: 1.To unite into one system or whole; combine: consolidated five separate agencies into a single department.
Solution 2:
Bündler does not appear in Duden, but from your description, a "Bündler" would depend on the exact nature of the buying and selling and would be qualified by a contextual specification.
Possibilities are
Agent (see various dictionaries)
OED
Middleman:
7.b. A trader, company, etc., that handles a commodity between its producer and its consumer.
1962 H. O. Beecheno Introd. Business Stud. xi. 93 What they have done is to bring all the operations, or most of them, under the umbrella of one firm and cut out various ‘middlemen’ as separate concerns.
wholesaler n. a person who sells goods by wholesale; a wholesale shop or business.
1888 E. Bellamy Looking Backward x. 146 The manufacturer sold to the wholesaler.
2007 J. E. Lloyd Hot Summer Nights iv. 88 Trish had surfed the Net and found a few wholesalers who could help her stock the store.
Factor:
I. A person or business.
- An agent for another.
- Business and Finance.
a. An agent who buys and sells, or transacts other business, on behalf of another person or company, usually one based in a different place, on commission; a mercantile agent; a commission agent.butter, cheese, cloth, horse, malt, timber, wool factor, etc.: see the first element.
1850 W. Irving Mahomet & his Successors I. v. 49 Mahomet..was employed by different persons as..factor in caravan journeys to Syria.
1954 G. Ohlin tr. E. F. Heckscher Econ. Hist. Sweden vi. 246 The merchants could now hand over the task of transportation.., while previously they or their factors had staked lives and fortunes on the delivery of goods.
2010 D. L. Brady Essent. Internat. Marketing xi. 193 A foreign factor is a type of agent that sells consigned or delivered merchandise for a commission known as factorage.