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As of 4 November 2026, 2,600 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Portugal; 4 are hiring right now and Lisboa has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 2,600
- Hiring now
- 4 · 2 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Cake bakeries · 428
- Top city
- Lisboa · 152
- Parent market
- Commerce & trade · 18,494
Food production, wholesale & retail in Portugal, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cake bakeries | 428 | 16% |
| Foodservice wholesalers | 284 | 11% |
| Gourmet food webshops | 281 | 11% |
| Online wine shops | 232 | 9% |
| Bakeries | 212 | 8% |
| Online grocery webshops | 208 | 8% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 207 | 8% |
| Beverage wholesalers | 171 | 7% |
| Prepared meal snack webshops | 151 | 6% |
| Online liquor shops | 131 | 5% |
| Candy & snack shops | 127 | 5% |
| Food import export traders | 110 | 4% |
| Health food & organic webshops | 107 | 4% |
| Independent supermarkets | 101 | 4% |
| Producer direct brand webshops | 97 | 4% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 368 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 1,837 · 1 |
| 11-50 employees | 284 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 68 · 1 |
| 201-500 employees | 25 · 0 |
| 501-1000 employees | 7 · 1 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 6 · 0 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 3 · 1 |
| 10,001+ employees | 2 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Lisboa | 152 | 6% |
| Porto | 84 | 3% |
| Braga | 40 | 2% |
| Vila Nova de Gaia | 33 | 1% |
| Amadora | 24 | 1% |
| Coimbra | 22 | 1% |
| Lisbon | 18 | 1% |
| Maia | 18 | 1% |
| Aveiro | 16 | 1% |
| Leiria | 16 | 1% |
| Viseu | 15 | 1% |
| Guimarães | 12 | 0% |
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Other segments of commerce & trade in Portugal
Commerce & trade in Portugal, the whole market →
General consumer goods ecommerce · 7,980 →
Fashion & apparel ecommerce · 3,180 →
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce · 2,177 →
Health, beauty & food ecommerce · 1,939 →
Industrial & chemical distribution · 1,497 →
Machinery equipment wholesale · 1,169 →
Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 830 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 512 →
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2,600 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Portugal; 4 are hiring right now and Lisboa has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/portugal/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 Portugal: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in Portugal?
2,600 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, foodservice wholesalers, gourmet food webshops. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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