Food production, wholesale & retail in Brazil
As of 4 November 2026, 15,307 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Brazil; 58 are hiring right now and São Paulo has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 15,307
- Hiring now
- 58 · 43 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Cake bakeries · 2,694
- Top city
- São Paulo · 961
- Parent market
- Commerce & trade · 175,093
Food production, wholesale & retail in Brazil, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cake bakeries | 2,694 | 18% |
| Foodservice wholesalers | 1,665 | 11% |
| Online grocery webshops | 1,392 | 9% |
| Prepared meal snack webshops | 1,340 | 9% |
| Candy & snack shops | 1,138 | 7% |
| Independent supermarkets | 1,075 | 7% |
| Coffee roasters | 1,018 | 7% |
| Gourmet food webshops | 968 | 6% |
| Beverage wholesalers | 922 | 6% |
| Bakeries | 918 | 6% |
| Online wine shops | 888 | 6% |
| Health food & organic webshops | 736 | 5% |
| Online liquor shops | 623 | 4% |
| Food import export traders | 582 | 4% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 485 | 3% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 2,563 · 1 |
| 2-10 employees | 9,487 · 2 |
| 11-50 employees | 1,763 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 867 · 3 |
| 201-500 employees | 349 · 17 |
| 501-1000 employees | 158 · 17 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 93 · 12 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 14 · 5 |
| 10,001+ employees | 13 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| São Paulo | 961 | 6% |
| Belém | 686 | 4% |
| Rio de Janeiro | 188 | 1% |
| Curitiba | 171 | 1% |
| San José | 112 | 1% |
| Baganga | 102 | 1% |
| Santana | 88 | 1% |
| Cafe | 81 | 1% |
| San Ildefonso Tultepec | 75 | 0% |
| Santa | 66 | 0% |
| Jardim | 63 | 0% |
| Santos | 62 | 0% |
The biggest food production, wholesale & retail in Brazil
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The stack of food production, wholesale & retail in Brazil
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Other segments of commerce & trade in Brazil
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15,307 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Brazil; 58 are hiring right now and São Paulo has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/brazil/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 Brazil: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in Brazil?
15,307 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, foodservice wholesalers, online grocery webshops. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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