The phrase "merchandise industry" is both correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to the business of producing and selling products to consumers. For example, "Growth in the merchandise industry has been strong in the past year."
His children's books have sold 60 million copies, generating a merchandise industry and Hollywood adaptations.
While the league sells enough goods to turn many e-tailers AstroTurf-green with envy, the $40 million it generates online and through catalog sales is only a small chunk of the roughly $125 million a year it generates through licensing agreements with makers of team apparel and merchandise, industry analysts said.
He told reporters: "Do you need to build large hypermarkets in the UK when the internet is taking so much growth in electricals, in clothing, in general merchandise?" Industry insiders say that it was probably a mistake for any supermarket to open stores over 60,000-70,000 sq ft, as it is becoming a challenge to fill them with enticing products when many things sell better online.
Alabama was supported in the case by the Collegiate Licensing Company, a company started by a former Alabama football player that works with more than a hundred universities to help take advantage of the four-billion-dollar college-merchandise industry.
A trailblazer in the licensing and merchandising industry, Sloane is credited with being the first to recognize the potential for classic film licensing.
An entire merchandising industry sprang up to churn out Jenny Lind hats, Jenny Lind parasols, Jenny Lind face cream and the Jenny Lind crib, which you can still buy today.
Bulmer was born and educated in London, and worked in the paper merchandising industry before serving with the Royal Corps of Signals in Africa, Sicily and Italy in the second world war.
Parker, a Svengali type, embodied the concept of the manager as capitalist, constantly pushing for more lucrative deals for his client, turning him into a movie franchise and a merchandising industry worth millions.
Begun in the 1970s and '80s and resuscitated at the turn of the 21st century, the Star Wars films continually advanced the field of motion picture special effects and developed into an enormously lucrative merchandising industry.
The show went on to make billions of dollars in syndication sales for Twentieth Century Fox TV, and spawned a movie and a merchandising industry, as well as numerous earnest analyses by academic scholars of mythology and a hit song by Catatonia.
But why hasn't that ebullience spread to others in the retail and merchandising industry?
