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As of 4 November 2026, 8,000 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Italy; 8 are hiring right now and Milano has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 8,000
- Hiring now
- 8 · 4 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Gourmet food webshops · 2,500
- Top city
- Milano · 251
- Parent market
- Ecommerce · 76,122
Food production, wholesale & retail in Italy, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Gourmet food webshops | 2,500 | 31% |
| Online wine shops | 1,275 | 16% |
| Wine & spirits shops | 1,156 | 14% |
| Online grocery webshops | 1,100 | 14% |
| Producer direct brand webshops | 1,037 | 13% |
| Prepared meal snack webshops | 663 | 8% |
| Coffee roasters | 654 | 8% |
| Online liquor shops | 613 | 8% |
| Cake bakeries | 467 | 6% |
| Health food & organic webshops | 391 | 5% |
| Candy & snack shops | 384 | 5% |
| Ethnic & international grocers | 339 | 4% |
| Greengrocers produce shops | 286 | 4% |
| Olive oil retailers | 225 | 3% |
| Tea retailers | 224 | 3% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 91 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 7,186 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 615 · 1 |
| 51-200 employees | 81 · 4 |
| 201-500 employees | 15 · 1 |
| 501-1000 employees | 3 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 5 · 1 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 2 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 2 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Milano | 251 | 3% |
| Roma | 213 | 3% |
| Torino | 86 | 1% |
| Napoli | 61 | 1% |
| Firenze | 46 | 1% |
| Palagonia | 38 | 0% |
| Bologna | 35 | 0% |
| Palermo | 29 | 0% |
| Genova | 28 | 0% |
| Brescia | 26 | 0% |
| Rome | 24 | 0% |
| Modena | 22 | 0% |
The biggest food production, wholesale & retail in Italy
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What these ecommerce stores run on
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The stack of food production, wholesale & retail in Italy
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of ecommerce in Italy
Ecommerce in Italy, the whole market →
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Flowers, plants & home fragrance ecommerce · 1,714 →
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8,000 food production, wholesale & retail are based in Italy; 8 are hiring right now and Milano has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/ecommerce/italy/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 Italy: questions
How many food production, wholesale & retail are there in Italy?
8,000 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, online wine shops, wine & spirits shops. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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