Market map · Italy

Ecommerce stores in Italy_

As of 4 November 2026, 76,122 ecommerce stores are based in Italy: 972 with 51+ employees, 61 hiring right now, led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Milano.

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

Companies, confident classification
76,122
51+ employees
972 · 1%
Hiring now
61 · 25 new in 30 d
Largest segment
General consumer goods ecommerce · 32,658
Top city
Milano · 2,673
Running cold outbound
6
Platform detected
57,103 · 75%
76,122ecommerce stores in Italy
972with 51+ employees
61hiring on their own career site today
25opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Ecommerce stores in Italy, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
General consumer goods ecommerce
32,658 · 22
Fashion & apparel ecommerce
17,383 · 18
Health, beauty & food ecommerce
9,576 · 7
Food production, wholesale & retail
8,000 · 8
Trade & technical equipment ecommerce
7,219 · 4
Jewellery & watch ecommerce
4,331 · 4
Vehicle & parts retail
2,944 · 4
Pet supplies ecommerce
2,071 · 1
Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce
1,714 · 2
Machinery equipment wholesale
1,061 · 0
Books publishing & retail
1,052 · 1
Tobacco, vape & cannabis retail
961 · 0
Industrial & chemical distribution
677 · 0
Visual art galleries & prints
456 · 0
Plants, flowers & fresh produce trade
378 · 0
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
1,957 · 0
2-10 employees
68,312 · 9
11-50 employees
4,881 · 15
51-200 employees
692 · 11
201-500 employees
150 · 10
501-1000 employees
71 · 4
1001-5000 employees
43 · 9
5001-10000 employees
10 · 2
10,001+ employees
6 · 1
By city
companiesshare
Milano
2,6734%
Roma
2,3593%
Napoli
1,0121%
Torino
8191%
Firenze
3961%
Rome
3851%
Bologna
3710%
Palermo
3380%
Genova
2840%
Brescia
2800%
Catania
2430%
Verona
2370%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest ecommerce stores in Italy

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

76,122 ecommerce stores in Italy; 61 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of ecommerce stores in Italy

Tools found on these companies' websites and in their DNS records, page plumbing left out.

05 — Shop platforms

What Italy's ecommerce stores run on

Ecommerce platform, payment providers and marketing stack, read from the stores' own pages and DNS. A platform is detected on 57,103 stores (75%); headless, custom and undetected builds make up the rest. Shares are of all 76,122 stores. Payments and marketing cover only the providers our crawl detects today (PayPal, Stripe, Klarna, SumUp; Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Brevo and the like).

Payment providers
storesshare
PayPal
3,9795%
Klarna
1,4062%
Stripe
5461%
Marketing & support stack
storesshare
Mailchimp
4,4256%
Microsoft Clarity
2,6563%
Brevo
2,6273%
Hotjar
1,0291%
Klaviyo
9991%
tawk.to
7961%
Matomo
7331%
Zendesk
4621%
MailerLite
2440%
Pinterest
2200%
HubSpot
2170%
ActiveCampaign
1190%
Ecommerce stores by industry
storesshare
Commerce & trade
69,59491%
Automotive
2,9494%
Media & content
1,6752%
Health care
6451%
Manufacturing & industry
5991%
Hospitality & travel
3090%
Consumer services & leisure
1690%
Property & construction
850%
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76,122 ecommerce stores are based in Italy: 972 with 51 or more employees, 61 hiring right now (25 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by general consumer goods ecommerce and Milano. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/italy)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

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.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Ecommerce stores in Italy: questions

How many ecommerce stores are there in Italy?

76,122 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 972 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company is an ecommerce store?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which ecommerce stores in Italy are hiring?

61 have an open role on their own career site today and 25 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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