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As of 4 November 2026, 632 industrial & chemical distribution companies are based in France; 2 are hiring right now and Paris has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 632
- Hiring now
- 2 · 0 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Cleaning & hygiene distribution · 81
- Top city
- Paris · 8
- Parent market
- Ecommerce · 96,993
Industrial & chemical distribution in France, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cleaning & hygiene distribution | 81 | 13% |
| Paint & coatings distribution | 80 | 13% |
| Building materials webshops | 46 | 7% |
| Construction materials distribution | 41 | 6% |
| Packaging & plastics distribution | 40 | 6% |
| Other trade & technical equipment webshops | 38 | 6% |
| Interior finishing material webshops | 33 | 5% |
| Adhesives & technical consumables | 30 | 5% |
| Industrial parts distribution | 26 | 4% |
| Garden plant webshops | 20 | 3% |
| Pipes valves & fittings distribution | 19 | 3% |
| Hvac & plumbing webshops | 17 | 3% |
| Cleaning equipment webshops | 15 | 2% |
| Tile & flooring webshops | 15 | 2% |
| Tools & hardware webshops | 15 | 2% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 293 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 262 · 1 |
| 11-50 employees | 65 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 11 · 1 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | 8 | 1% |
| Mondouzil | 7 | 1% |
| Lyon | 6 | 1% |
| Bordeaux | 5 | 1% |
| Clermont-Ferrand | 5 | 1% |
| Aubagne | 4 | 1% |
| Besançon | 4 | 1% |
| Lille | 3 | 0% |
| Metz | 3 | 0% |
| Roubaix | 3 | 0% |
| Toulouse | 3 | 0% |
| Aix-en-Provence | 2 | 0% |
The biggest industrial & chemical distribution companies in France
The largest ecommerce stores of the segment, by headcount; marketplaces and portals left out.
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What these ecommerce stores run on
Ecommerce platform read from the stores' own pages and DNS.
The stack of industrial & chemical distribution in France
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of ecommerce in France
Ecommerce in France, the whole market →
General consumer goods ecommerce · 42,601 →
Fashion & apparel ecommerce · 20,737 →
Health, beauty & food ecommerce · 12,509 →
Food production, wholesale & retail · 8,737 →
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce · 7,482 →
Jewellery & watch ecommerce · 6,248 →
Pet supplies ecommerce · 3,332 →
Vehicle & parts retail · 3,163 →
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632 industrial & chemical distribution companies are based in France; 2 are hiring right now and Paris has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/france/industrial_and_chemical_distribution)
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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.
Industrial & chemical distribution in France: questions
How many industrial & chemical distribution companies are there in France?
632 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Ecommerce → Industrial & chemical distribution → leaf niches such as cleaning & hygiene distribution, paint & coatings distribution, building materials webshops. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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