Market map · Switzerland

Commerce & trade in Switzerland_

As of 4 November 2026, 31,979 commerce & trade companies are based in Switzerland: 498 with 51+ employees, 131 hiring right now, led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Zürich.

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

Companies, confident classification
31,979
51+ employees
498 · 2%
Hiring now
131 · 33 new in 30 d
Largest segment
General consumer goods ecommerce · 13,155
Top city
Zürich · 1,539
Running cold outbound
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31,979commerce & trade companies in Switzerland
498with 51+ employees
131hiring on their own career site today
33opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Commerce & trade in Switzerland, by segment

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By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
General consumer goods ecommerce
13,155 · 33
Food production, wholesale & retail
6,679 · 38
Fashion & apparel ecommerce
5,035 · 9
Health, beauty & food ecommerce
3,360 · 8
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce
2,688 · 16
Jewellery & watch ecommerce
1,674 · 10
Machinery equipment wholesale
1,436 · 16
Industrial & chemical distribution
1,399 · 16
Pet supplies ecommerce
1,171 · 0
Plants, flowers & fresh produce trade
909 · 3
General & specialty stores
884 · 3
Tobacco, vape & cannabis retail
830 · 3
Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce
685 · 3
Ticket & subscription resellers
65 · 0
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
13,920 · 6
2-10 employees
16,246 · 34
11-50 employees
1,315 · 36
51-200 employees
356 · 37
201-500 employees
72 · 4
501-1000 employees
37 · 7
1001-5000 employees
23 · 2
5001-10000 employees
5 · 2
10,001+ employees
5 · 3
By city
companiesshare
Zürich
1,5395%
Genève
5842%
Basel
4691%
Bern
4301%
Lausanne
3281%
Luzern
3081%
St. Gallen
2801%
Winterthur
2521%
Zugerberg
2441%
Baar
1741%
Lugano
1430%
Biel/Bienne
1410%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest commerce & trade companies in Switzerland

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

31,979 commerce & trade companies in Switzerland; 131 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of commerce & trade in Switzerland

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31,979 commerce & trade companies are based in Switzerland: 498 with 51 or more employees, 131 hiring right now (33 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Zürich. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/switzerland)
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 Switzerland: questions

How many commerce & trade companies are there in Switzerland?

31,979 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 498 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 Switzerland are hiring?

131 have an open role on their own career site today and 33 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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