Market map · Germany · Ecommerce

Food production, wholesale & retail in Germany_

As of 4 November 2026, 12,442 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Germany; 158 are hiring right now and Berlin has the most.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies
12,442
Hiring now
158 · 40 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Gourmet food webshops · 2,316
Top city
Berlin · 554
Parent market
Ecommerce · 156,900
12,442food production, wholesale & retail in Germany
158hiring today
40opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Food production, wholesale & retail in Germany, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Gourmet food webshops
2,31619%
Wine & spirits shops
1,77314%
Online wine shops
1,52212%
Online liquor shops
1,36611%
Online grocery webshops
1,32711%
Prepared meal snack webshops
1,0518%
Tea retailers
9798%
Producer direct brand webshops
8837%
Ethnic & international grocers
8397%
Candy & snack shops
8327%
Coffee roasters
7916%
Health food & organic webshops
7216%
Kitchenware household goods webshops
6545%
Cake bakeries
3593%
Olive oil retailers
3012%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
5,577 · 7
2-10 employees
6,130 · 62
11-50 employees
556 · 40
51-200 employees
135 · 34
201-500 employees
20 · 5
501-1000 employees
10 · 4
1001-5000 employees
9 · 2
5001-10000 employees
1 · 1
10,001+ employees
4 · 3
By city
companiesshare
Berlin
5544%
Hamburg
4003%
München
2332%
Köln
1892%
Frankfurt am Main
1631%
Stuttgart
1291%
Düsseldorf
1261%
Bremen
1041%
Hannover
841%
Dresden
811%
Essen
751%
Wiesbaden
721%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest food production, wholesale & retail in Germany

The largest ecommerce stores of the segment, by headcount; marketplaces and portals left out.

12,442 food production, wholesale & retail in Germany.

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04 — Ecommerce platforms

What these ecommerce stores run on

Ecommerce platform read from the stores' own pages and DNS.

04 — What they run

The stack of food production, wholesale & retail in Germany

From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.

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12,442 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Germany; 158 are hiring right now and Berlin has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/germany/food_production_wholesale_and_retail)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

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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.
FAQ

Food production, wholesale & retail in Germany: questions

How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in Germany?

12,442 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 gourmet food webshops, wine & spirits shops, online wine shops. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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Yes: the first 20 largest are on this page; the full list with verified e-mails is in the product. Counting is free.

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