Market map · Italy

Commerce & trade in Italy_

As of 4 November 2026, 110,157 commerce & trade companies are based in Italy: 1,817 with 51+ employees, 115 hiring right now, led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Milano.

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

Companies, confident classification
110,157
51+ employees
1,817 · 2%
Hiring now
115 · 37 new in 30 d
Largest segment
General consumer goods ecommerce · 41,309
Top city
Milano · 3,558
Running cold outbound
9
110,157commerce & trade companies in Italy
1,817with 51+ employees
115hiring on their own career site today
37opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Commerce & trade in Italy, by segment

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By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
General consumer goods ecommerce
41,309 · 34
Fashion & apparel ecommerce
21,970 · 22
Food production, wholesale & retail
18,678 · 25
Health, beauty & food ecommerce
10,439 · 7
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce
9,689 · 9
Industrial & chemical distribution
7,293 · 15
Machinery equipment wholesale
7,008 · 13
Jewellery & watch ecommerce
6,729 · 4
General & specialty stores
4,319 · 5
Pet supplies ecommerce
2,707 · 1
Plants, flowers & fresh produce trade
2,360 · 5
Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce
1,908 · 2
Tobacco, vape & cannabis retail
1,691 · 0
Ticket & subscription resellers
138 · 0
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
1,930 · 1
2-10 employees
96,333 · 15
11-50 employees
10,077 · 35
51-200 employees
1,292 · 18
201-500 employees
281 · 13
501-1000 employees
126 · 12
1001-5000 employees
89 · 18
5001-10000 employees
17 · 2
10,001+ employees
12 · 1
By city
companiesshare
Milano
3,5583%
Roma
3,2003%
Torino
1,3311%
Napoli
1,2531%
Bologna
5891%
Rome
5541%
Firenze
5410%
Brescia
4990%
Palermo
4930%
Genova
4820%
Verona
4260%
Catania
3560%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest commerce & trade companies in Italy

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

110,157 commerce & trade companies in Italy; 115 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of commerce & trade in Italy

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110,157 commerce & trade companies are based in Italy: 1,817 with 51 or more employees, 115 hiring right now (37 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Milano. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/italy)
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 Italy: questions

How many commerce & trade companies are there in Italy?

110,157 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 1,817 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 Italy are hiring?

115 have an open role on their own career site today and 37 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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Yes: filter on commerce & trade and Italy, add size, city or technology, and export with verified e-mails. The first 20 largest companies are on this page.

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