Market map · France

Commerce & trade in France_

As of 4 November 2026, 118,363 commerce & trade companies are based in France: 1,896 with 51+ employees, 314 hiring right now, led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Paris.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
118,363
51+ employees
1,896 · 2%
Hiring now
314 · 125 new in 30 d
Largest segment
General consumer goods ecommerce · 48,806
Top city
Paris · 7,228
Running cold outbound
10
118,363commerce & trade companies in France
1,896with 51+ employees
314hiring on their own career site today
125opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Commerce & trade in France, by segment

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By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
General consumer goods ecommerce
48,806 · 82
Fashion & apparel ecommerce
24,033 · 53
Food production, wholesale & retail
20,736 · 80
Health, beauty & food ecommerce
13,034 · 17
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce
8,723 · 31
Jewellery & watch ecommerce
7,450 · 5
Machinery equipment wholesale
5,223 · 58
Industrial & chemical distribution
4,129 · 30
Pet supplies ecommerce
3,703 · 3
Tobacco, vape & cannabis retail
3,198 · 0
Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce
2,630 · 3
Plants, flowers & fresh produce trade
2,276 · 0
General & specialty stores
2,041 · 10
Ticket & subscription resellers
293 · 2
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
79,116 · 22
2-10 employees
30,711 · 40
11-50 employees
6,640 · 78
51-200 employees
1,258 · 79
201-500 employees
369 · 43
501-1000 employees
119 · 22
1001-5000 employees
108 · 19
5001-10000 employees
19 · 4
10,001+ employees
23 · 7
By city
companiesshare
Paris
7,2286%
Roubaix
1,6921%
Clermont-Ferrand
1,3811%
Lyon
9021%
Toulouse
8331%
Nice
8211%
Bordeaux
7131%
Paris 12
6961%
Paris 17
6301%
Ottawa (Centre Town)
5590%
Paris 15
5560%
Nantes
4600%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest commerce & trade companies in France

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

118,363 commerce & trade companies in France; 314 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of commerce & trade in France

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118,363 commerce & trade companies are based in France: 1,896 with 51 or more employees, 314 hiring right now (125 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Paris. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/france)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • 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.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Commerce & trade in France: questions

How many commerce & trade companies are there in France?

118,363 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 1,896 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to commerce & trade?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which commerce & trade companies in France are hiring?

314 have an open role on their own career site today and 125 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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