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As of 4 November 2026, 4,749 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Australia; 7 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 4,749
- Hiring now
- 7 · 4 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Online grocery webshops · 651
- Top city
- Melbourne · 68
- Parent market
- Ecommerce · 55,063
Food production, wholesale & retail in Australia, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Online grocery webshops | 651 | 14% |
| Gourmet food webshops | 541 | 11% |
| Prepared meal snack webshops | 497 | 10% |
| Online liquor shops | 403 | 8% |
| Tea retailers | 393 | 8% |
| Ethnic & international grocers | 377 | 8% |
| Candy & snack shops | 374 | 8% |
| Coffee roasters | 354 | 7% |
| Cake bakeries | 353 | 7% |
| Health food & organic webshops | 345 | 7% |
| Producer direct brand webshops | 332 | 7% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 318 | 7% |
| Online wine shops | 299 | 6% |
| Kitchenware household goods webshops | 184 | 4% |
| Gift & giftware webshops | 129 | 3% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 2,252 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 2,236 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 184 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 67 · 4 |
| 201-500 employees | 7 · 1 |
| 501-1000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 2 · 2 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | 68 | 1% |
| Haymarket | 42 | 1% |
| Perth | 29 | 1% |
| Adelaide Bc | 23 | 0% |
| Sydney | 22 | 0% |
| Victoria | 16 | 0% |
| Dandenong | 14 | 0% |
| Adelaide | 13 | 0% |
| Brunswick | 13 | 0% |
| Port Melbourne | 12 | 0% |
| Wetherill Park | 11 | 0% |
| Epping | 9 | 0% |
The biggest food production, wholesale & retail in Australia
The largest ecommerce stores of the segment, by headcount; marketplaces and portals left out.
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What these ecommerce stores run on
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The stack of food production, wholesale & retail in Australia
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of ecommerce in Australia
Ecommerce in Australia, the whole market →
General consumer goods ecommerce · 25,206 →
Fashion & apparel ecommerce · 11,025 →
Health, beauty & food ecommerce · 7,092 →
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce · 4,884 →
Vehicle & parts retail · 2,300 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 2,233 →
Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 2,232 →
Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce · 1,786 →
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4,749 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Australia; 7 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/australia/food_production_wholesale_and_retail)
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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.
Food production, wholesale & retail in Australia: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in Australia?
4,749 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Ecommerce → Food production, wholesale & retail → leaf niches such as online grocery webshops, gourmet food webshops, prepared meal snack webshops. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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