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As of 4 November 2026, 3,584 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Canada; 8 are hiring right now and Montréal has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 3,584
- Hiring now
- 8 · 3 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Online grocery webshops · 588
- Top city
- Montréal · 105
- Parent market
- Ecommerce · 38,371
Food production, wholesale & retail in Canada, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Online grocery webshops | 588 | 16% |
| Gourmet food webshops | 544 | 15% |
| Prepared meal snack webshops | 543 | 15% |
| Ethnic & international grocers | 416 | 12% |
| Cake bakeries | 337 | 9% |
| Candy & snack shops | 322 | 9% |
| Tea retailers | 303 | 8% |
| Producer direct brand webshops | 273 | 8% |
| Coffee roasters | 267 | 7% |
| Health food & organic webshops | 219 | 6% |
| Kitchenware household goods webshops | 169 | 5% |
| Bakeries | 157 | 4% |
| Online liquor shops | 144 | 4% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 116 | 3% |
| Online wine shops | 76 | 2% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 1,767 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 1,635 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 137 · 1 |
| 51-200 employees | 33 · 5 |
| 201-500 employees | 7 · 1 |
| 501-1000 employees | 2 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 1 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Montréal | 105 | 3% |
| Toronto | 96 | 3% |
| Québec | 56 | 2% |
| Calgary | 28 | 1% |
| Ottawa | 26 | 1% |
| Vancouver | 24 | 1% |
| Markham Outer Southwest | 15 | 0% |
| Laval | 14 | 0% |
| Calgary (Inglewood / Burnsland / Chinatown / East Victoria Park / Saddledome) | 13 | 0% |
| Victoria | 13 | 0% |
| Concord | 12 | 0% |
| Milton | 12 | 0% |
The biggest food production, wholesale & retail in Canada
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The stack of food production, wholesale & retail in Canada
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of ecommerce in Canada
Ecommerce in Canada, the whole market →
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Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 1,504 →
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3,584 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Canada; 8 are hiring right now and Montréal has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/canada/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 Canada: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in Canada?
3,584 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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