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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 69 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
7-Eleven Coalitions Petition FDA for Flavored-Tobacco Clarification
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Courtesy of NACS

ROCKVILLE, MD – The National Coalition of Associations of 7-Eleven Franchisees and the New England 7-Eleven Franchise Owners Association filed a formal petition last month with the FDA, asking them to clarify the tobacco product standards provisions of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

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E-Cigarettes: The New Frontier In War On Smoking
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

From NPR...

Electronic cigarettes imported from China have grown in popularity during the past several years — and that has concerned federal regulators, in part, because so little is known about what is in them.

Preliminary tests by the Food and Drug Administration show that e-cigarettes — battery-powered tubes that deliver a nicotine vapor instead of burned tobacco smoke — contain some of the same dangerous cancer-causing chemicals that traditional cigarettes do, but at lower levels. The samples also revealed quality-control issues.

FDA Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein says consumers should beware.

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Okla. unemployment claims set weekly record
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

By Tim Talley

Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma set a new record for unemployment claims last week as the impact of the global recession continues to be felt in the state, the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission said Tuesday.

The state paid out $20.8 million last week on 64,190 jobless claims – an all-time record, said commission spokesman John Carpenter.

"We've been setting records since the start of the year. Every week it just inches up more," Carpenter said.

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