Food production, wholesale & retail in United States_
As of 4 November 2026, 39,410 food production, wholesale & retail are based in United States; 458 are hiring right now and New York has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 39,410
- Hiring now
- 458 · 266 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Cake bakeries · 8,782
- Top city
- New York · 880
- Parent market
- Commerce & trade · 380,760
Food production, wholesale & retail in United States, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cake bakeries | 8,782 | 22% |
| Bakeries | 5,592 | 14% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 3,358 | 9% |
| Coffee roasters | 3,094 | 8% |
| Online liquor shops | 2,604 | 7% |
| Foodservice wholesalers | 2,558 | 6% |
| Gourmet food webshops | 2,429 | 6% |
| Online grocery webshops | 2,257 | 6% |
| Candy & snack shops | 2,138 | 5% |
| Prepared meal snack webshops | 1,841 | 5% |
| Food import export traders | 1,802 | 5% |
| Ethnic & international grocers | 1,791 | 5% |
| Beverage wholesalers | 1,645 | 4% |
| Health food & organic webshops | 1,435 | 4% |
| Independent supermarkets | 1,383 | 4% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 10,012 · 1 |
| 2-10 employees | 20,360 · 48 |
| 11-50 employees | 7,314 · 66 |
| 51-200 employees | 1,105 · 127 |
| 201-500 employees | 375 · 109 |
| 501-1000 employees | 118 · 43 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 86 · 45 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 19 · 11 |
| 10,001+ employees | 21 · 8 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 880 | 2% |
| Miami | 490 | 1% |
| Brooklyn | 458 | 1% |
| Houston | 395 | 1% |
| San Francisco | 395 | 1% |
| Chicago | 383 | 1% |
| Atlanta | 231 | 1% |
| Dallas | 219 | 1% |
| Las Vegas | 218 | 1% |
| Austin | 208 | 1% |
| Portland | 195 | 0% |
| San Diego | 188 | 0% |
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39,410 food production, wholesale & retail are based in United States; 458 are hiring right now and New York has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/commerce_trade/united-states/food_production_wholesale_and_retail)
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- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Food production, wholesale & retail in United States: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in United States?
39,410 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, bakeries, wine & spirits shops. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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