supplier(n = noun.person) provider - someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity;
is a kind of bourgeois, businessperson
has particulars: black marketeer, caterer, connection, dispenser, distributer, distributor, purveyor, recruiter, stockist, provisioner, sutler, victualer, victualler
Derived form verb supply₁

   One who supplies. [1913 Webster]