Food production, wholesale & retail in Australia
As of 4 November 2026, 10,029 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Australia; 31 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 10,029
- Hiring now
- 31 · 11 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Cake bakeries · 1,465
- Top city
- Melbourne · 137
- Parent market
- Commerce & trade · 66,933
Food production, wholesale & retail in Australia, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cake bakeries | 1,465 | 15% |
| Coffee roasters | 871 | 9% |
| Foodservice wholesalers | 869 | 9% |
| Food import export traders | 749 | 7% |
| Online grocery webshops | 747 | 7% |
| Bakeries | 719 | 7% |
| Beverage wholesalers | 580 | 6% |
| Ethnic & international grocers | 572 | 6% |
| Gourmet food webshops | 570 | 6% |
| Prepared meal snack webshops | 533 | 5% |
| Butcher shops | 475 | 5% |
| Candy & snack shops | 473 | 5% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 455 | 5% |
| Online liquor shops | 441 | 4% |
| Health food & organic webshops | 426 | 4% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 2,809 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 6,194 · 6 |
| 11-50 employees | 685 · 3 |
| 51-200 employees | 249 · 11 |
| 201-500 employees | 54 · 5 |
| 501-1000 employees | 19 · 1 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 13 · 3 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 3 · 1 |
| 10,001+ employees | 3 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | 137 | 1% |
| Haymarket | 68 | 1% |
| Perth | 56 | 1% |
| Dandenong | 52 | 1% |
| Adelaide Bc | 48 | 0% |
| Sydney | 46 | 0% |
| Wetherill Park | 45 | 0% |
| Malaga | 36 | 0% |
| Victoria | 36 | 0% |
| Campbellfield | 26 | 0% |
| Marrickville | 26 | 0% |
| Epping | 25 | 0% |
The biggest food production, wholesale & retail in Australia
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The stack of food production, wholesale & retail in Australia
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Other segments of commerce & trade in Australia
Commerce & trade in Australia, the whole market →
General consumer goods ecommerce · 28,457 →
Fashion & apparel ecommerce · 12,271 →
Health, beauty & food ecommerce · 7,347 →
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce · 6,000 →
Industrial & chemical distribution · 4,440 →
Machinery equipment wholesale · 4,001 →
Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 2,760 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 2,559 →
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10,029 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Australia; 31 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/australia/food_production_wholesale_and_retail)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Food production, wholesale & retail in Australia: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in Australia?
10,029 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Commerce & trade → Food production, wholesale & retail → leaf niches such as cake bakeries, coffee roasters, foodservice wholesalers. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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