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Who We Are...

convenience_store.gifThe Oklahoma Wholesale Marketers Association (OWMA) is a statewide trade association that has represented the wholesale distributors of Oklahoma for 66 years.  More than 92 percent of the member wholesale houses are small, family-owned businesses serving their own and neighboring communities in Oklahoma and surrounding states.

In the early days of the association, wholesalers sold primary tobacco and candy products.  Today they are widely diversified, offering products such as:

  • Dry, refrigerated and frozen groceries  
  • Beverages
  • Snack foods
  • Institutional foods
  • Paper products
  • Health and beauty care products
  • Automotive products
  • Cleaning supplies 

Our customers include:

  • Oil retailers
  • Convenience stores
  • Drug stores 
  • Mass merchandisers
  • Gift shops
  • Liquor stores
  • Military installations
  • Airports
  • Schools
  • Campgrounds 
  • Service organizations
  • Government agencies
  • Hospitals
  • Nursing homes
  • Motels
  • Restaurants
What We Do...
  • tobacco.gifTobacco distributors act as tax collectors for the state of Oklahoma, affixing the tax stamps we purchase from the state to the packages of cigarettes and other tobacco products we sell to the retailer, thus collecting the excise tax for the state.

  • The Oklahoma Wholesale Marketers Association actively monitors legislation at the state capitol, primary focusing on business issues.

  • The OWMA is also involved in supporting efforts to prevent youth from purchasing tobacco products.
Association News
Workin' 9 to 11, House hears 50 bills
Friday, May 25, 2007

Author :  Erin Boeckman 
Date :  05/25/2007

Staff Writer
(OK) During another day of work that spanned the morning and night hours, the House on Wednesday took up both policy measures - ranging from ethics reform to taxation to criminal justice - and budget bills, approving allocation of the state's spillover money and agency allocation bills.


While there were rumors floating amongst legislators, lobbyists and legislative staff that both the Senate and House may conclude their business Thursday evening, the House failed to meet that goal. Although working through its dinner break, the House recessed for lunch and took a break in the late afternoon. Members heard 50 bills, debating ethics reform and higher education funding. Members also effectively killed two bills, one relating to landfills and one pertaining to the director of a criminal justice information center. Although the Senate concluded its business Thursday night, the House is schedule to return Friday morning to wrap up the session.

 

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