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As of 4 November 2026, 21,273 food production, wholesale & retail are based in United Kingdom; 110 are hiring right now and London has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 21,273
- Hiring now
- 110 · 51 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Cake bakeries · 4,125
- Top city
- London · 678
- Parent market
- Commerce & trade · 178,481
Food production, wholesale & retail in United Kingdom, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cake bakeries | 4,125 | 19% |
| Online grocery webshops | 2,043 | 10% |
| Bakeries | 1,925 | 9% |
| Foodservice wholesalers | 1,845 | 9% |
| Coffee roasters | 1,454 | 7% |
| Candy & snack shops | 1,388 | 7% |
| Prepared meal snack webshops | 1,356 | 6% |
| Gourmet food webshops | 1,346 | 6% |
| Food import export traders | 1,075 | 5% |
| Beverage wholesalers | 1,046 | 5% |
| Butcher shops | 1,018 | 5% |
| Ethnic & international grocers | 987 | 5% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 884 | 4% |
| Online liquor shops | 850 | 4% |
| Tea retailers | 657 | 3% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 6,778 · 2 |
| 2-10 employees | 12,195 · 22 |
| 11-50 employees | 1,648 · 12 |
| 51-200 employees | 444 · 32 |
| 201-500 employees | 106 · 16 |
| 501-1000 employees | 44 · 8 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 38 · 14 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 6 · 1 |
| 10,001+ employees | 14 · 3 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| London | 678 | 3% |
| Birmingham | 199 | 1% |
| Glasgow | 158 | 1% |
| Bristol | 118 | 1% |
| Leicester | 105 | 0% |
| Rode | 100 | 0% |
| Manchester | 96 | 0% |
| Stonebridge | 91 | 0% |
| Sheffield | 90 | 0% |
| Edinburgh | 86 | 0% |
| Leeds | 81 | 0% |
| Nottingham | 77 | 0% |
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The stack of food production, wholesale & retail in United Kingdom
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Other segments of commerce & trade in United Kingdom
Commerce & trade in United Kingdom, the whole market →
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21,273 food production, wholesale & retail are based in United Kingdom; 110 are hiring right now and London has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/united-kingdom/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 United Kingdom: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in United Kingdom?
21,273 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, online grocery webshops, bakeries. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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