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This study discusses customized merchandising proposals in retailer-vendor relationships, based on transaction cost theory. The theoretical model suggests that trust relationships and the centralization of merchandising authority promote the activeness of customized merchandising proposals. The results from structural equation modeling analysis reveal that customized merchandising proposals by a vendor are actively executed when (a) a trust relationship between a retailer and a vendor becomes long term and stable and (b) the merchandising authority of a retailer's merchandising division becomes centralized.