Market map · Netherlands

Commerce & trade in Netherlands_

As of 4 November 2026, 97,199 commerce & trade companies are based in Netherlands: 1,470 with 51+ employees, 379 hiring right now, led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Amsterdam.

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

Companies, confident classification
97,199
51+ employees
1,470 · 2%
Hiring now
379 · 77 new in 30 d
Largest segment
General consumer goods ecommerce · 47,795
Top city
Amsterdam · 2,650
Running cold outbound
14
97,199commerce & trade companies in Netherlands
1,470with 51+ employees
379hiring on their own career site today
77opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Commerce & trade in Netherlands, by segment

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By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
General consumer goods ecommerce
47,795 · 140
Fashion & apparel ecommerce
16,087 · 35
Food production, wholesale & retail
14,179 · 78
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce
9,745 · 36
Health, beauty & food ecommerce
9,158 · 9
Industrial & chemical distribution
4,246 · 57
Jewellery & watch ecommerce
4,157 · 6
Machinery equipment wholesale
3,853 · 52
Pet supplies ecommerce
3,815 · 0
Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce
3,073 · 5
Plants, flowers & fresh produce trade
2,483 · 28
General & specialty stores
2,014 · 22
Tobacco, vape & cannabis retail
1,107 · 0
Ticket & subscription resellers
275 · 8
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
41,156 · 2
2-10 employees
49,001 · 82
11-50 employees
5,572 · 136
51-200 employees
1,096 · 96
201-500 employees
226 · 41
501-1000 employees
76 · 8
1001-5000 employees
51 · 9
5001-10000 employees
9 · 4
10,001+ employees
12 · 1
By city
companiesshare
Amsterdam
2,6503%
Rotterdam
1,5602%
's-Gravenhage
9741%
Utrecht
7631%
Eindhoven
7611%
Groningen
7291%
Almere
6601%
Breda
5741%
Haarlem
5401%
Apeldoorn
4770%
Amersfoort
4680%
's-Hertogenbosch
4610%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest commerce & trade companies in Netherlands

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

97,199 commerce & trade companies in Netherlands; 379 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of commerce & trade in Netherlands

Tools found on these companies' websites and in their DNS records, page plumbing left out.

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97,199 commerce & trade companies are based in Netherlands: 1,470 with 51 or more employees, 379 hiring right now (77 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Amsterdam. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/netherlands)
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 Netherlands: questions

How many commerce & trade companies are there in Netherlands?

97,199 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 1,470 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 Netherlands are hiring?

379 have an open role on their own career site today and 77 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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