Food production, wholesale & retail in Switzerland
As of 4 November 2026, 6,679 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Switzerland; 38 are hiring right now and Zürich has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 6,679
- Hiring now
- 38 · 6 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Cake bakeries · 820
- Top city
- Zürich · 314
- Parent market
- Commerce & trade · 31,979
Food production, wholesale & retail in Switzerland, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cake bakeries | 820 | 12% |
| Gourmet food webshops | 814 | 12% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 809 | 12% |
| Online wine shops | 653 | 10% |
| Bakeries | 639 | 10% |
| Coffee roasters | 410 | 6% |
| Producer direct brand webshops | 375 | 6% |
| Beverage wholesalers | 372 | 6% |
| Food import export traders | 348 | 5% |
| Online grocery webshops | 320 | 5% |
| Butcher shops | 317 | 5% |
| Tea retailers | 309 | 5% |
| Ethnic & international grocers | 299 | 4% |
| Online liquor shops | 295 | 4% |
| Prepared meal snack webshops | 236 | 4% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 1,906 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 4,350 · 13 |
| 11-50 employees | 285 · 8 |
| 51-200 employees | 104 · 12 |
| 201-500 employees | 18 · 1 |
| 501-1000 employees | 9 · 3 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 5 · 1 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 2 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Zürich | 314 | 5% |
| Genève | 138 | 2% |
| Basel | 107 | 2% |
| Bern | 83 | 1% |
| Lausanne | 69 | 1% |
| Luzern | 67 | 1% |
| St. Gallen | 58 | 1% |
| Winterthur | 54 | 1% |
| Zugerberg | 35 | 1% |
| Baar | 33 | 0% |
| Solothurn | 28 | 0% |
| Dietikon 1 | 26 | 0% |
The biggest food production, wholesale & retail in Switzerland
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The stack of food production, wholesale & retail in Switzerland
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Other segments of commerce & trade in Switzerland
Commerce & trade in Switzerland, the whole market →
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Industrial & chemical distribution · 1,399 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 1,171 →
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6,679 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Switzerland; 38 are hiring right now and Zürich has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/switzerland/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 Switzerland: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in Switzerland?
6,679 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, wine & spirits shops. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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