Food production, wholesale & retail in Italy
As of 4 November 2026, 18,678 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Italy; 25 are hiring right now and Milano has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 18,678
- Hiring now
- 25 · 12 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Cake bakeries · 3,203
- Top city
- Milano · 511
- Parent market
- Commerce & trade · 110,157
Food production, wholesale & retail in Italy, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cake bakeries | 3,203 | 17% |
| Gourmet food webshops | 2,680 | 14% |
| Bakeries | 1,848 | 10% |
| Foodservice wholesalers | 1,755 | 9% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 1,755 | 9% |
| Online wine shops | 1,326 | 7% |
| Beverage wholesalers | 1,237 | 7% |
| Online grocery webshops | 1,195 | 6% |
| Producer direct brand webshops | 1,167 | 6% |
| Coffee roasters | 1,092 | 6% |
| Butcher shops | 928 | 5% |
| Delicatessen shops | 790 | 4% |
| Prepared meal snack webshops | 695 | 4% |
| Online liquor shops | 627 | 3% |
| Greengrocers produce shops | 614 | 3% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 166 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 15,383 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 2,662 · 5 |
| 51-200 employees | 326 · 8 |
| 201-500 employees | 74 · 3 |
| 501-1000 employees | 29 · 3 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 25 · 5 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 7 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 6 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Milano | 511 | 3% |
| Roma | 460 | 2% |
| Torino | 234 | 1% |
| Napoli | 136 | 1% |
| Bologna | 97 | 1% |
| Firenze | 97 | 1% |
| Genova | 89 | 0% |
| Rome | 84 | 0% |
| Brescia | 73 | 0% |
| Palermo | 73 | 0% |
| Verona | 67 | 0% |
| Parma | 60 | 0% |
The biggest food production, wholesale & retail in Italy
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The stack of food production, wholesale & retail in Italy
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Other segments of commerce & trade in Italy
Commerce & trade in Italy, the whole market →
General consumer goods ecommerce · 41,309 →
Fashion & apparel ecommerce · 21,970 →
Health, beauty & food ecommerce · 10,439 →
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce · 9,689 →
Industrial & chemical distribution · 7,293 →
Machinery equipment wholesale · 7,008 →
Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 6,729 →
General & specialty stores · 4,319 →
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18,678 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Italy; 25 are hiring right now and Milano has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/italy/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 Italy: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in Italy?
18,678 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, bakeries. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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