Distribution means to spread the product throughout the marketplace such that a large number of people can buy it. Distribution can make or break a company. A good distribution system quite simply means the company has greater chance of selling its products more than its competitors. In economical theory the systematic attempt to account for the sharing of the national income among the owners of the factors of production—land, labour, and capital. Traditionally, economists have studied how the costs of these factors and the size of their return—rent, wages, and profits—are fixed.