Food production, wholesale & retail in France
As of 4 November 2026, 20,736 food production, wholesale & retail are based in France; 80 are hiring right now and Paris has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 20,736
- Hiring now
- 80 · 35 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Cake bakeries · 3,513
- Top city
- Paris · 777
- Parent market
- Commerce & trade · 118,363
Food production, wholesale & retail in France, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cake bakeries | 3,513 | 17% |
| Gourmet food webshops | 2,393 | 12% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 2,300 | 11% |
| Bakeries | 2,240 | 11% |
| Butcher shops | 1,237 | 6% |
| Online grocery webshops | 1,184 | 6% |
| Greengrocers produce shops | 1,140 | 5% |
| Organic grocery stores | 1,089 | 5% |
| Foodservice wholesalers | 1,051 | 5% |
| Chocolatiers & confectioners | 955 | 5% |
| Online wine shops | 932 | 4% |
| Tea retailers | 908 | 4% |
| Ethnic & international grocers | 853 | 4% |
| Candy & snack shops | 809 | 4% |
| Cheese & fine food shops | 806 | 4% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 9,521 · 2 |
| 2-10 employees | 8,740 · 10 |
| 11-50 employees | 1,984 · 20 |
| 51-200 employees | 322 · 20 |
| 201-500 employees | 105 · 16 |
| 501-1000 employees | 24 · 5 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 23 · 4 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 5 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 12 · 3 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | 777 | 4% |
| Roubaix | 416 | 2% |
| Bordeaux | 209 | 1% |
| Toulouse | 188 | 1% |
| Clermont-Ferrand | 156 | 1% |
| Lyon | 144 | 1% |
| Nice | 124 | 1% |
| Nantes | 120 | 1% |
| Strasbourg | 119 | 1% |
| Montpellier | 94 | 0% |
| Lille | 88 | 0% |
| Paris 12 | 87 | 0% |
The biggest food production, wholesale & retail in France
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The stack of food production, wholesale & retail in France
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Other segments of commerce & trade in France
Commerce & trade in France, the whole market →
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Industrial & chemical distribution · 4,129 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 3,703 →
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20,736 food production, wholesale & retail are based in France; 80 are hiring right now and Paris has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/france/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 France: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in France?
20,736 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, gourmet food webshops, wine & spirits shops. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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