Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Artisanal food importers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 6,336 artisanal food importers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 85,002 professional contacts across them, including 17,788 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers artisanal food importers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026. Country and city lists for artisanal food importers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest artisanal food importers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,675 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Do you know METRO?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,427 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe Pomona est aujourd'hui le leader de la distribution livrée de produits alimentaires et non alimentaires aux professionnels de la restauration et des commerces…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,361 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Eataly is the world’s largest artisanal Italian food and beverage marketplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,746 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GODIVA Chocolatier is a global leader in premium, artisanal chocolate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,347 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Chefs' Warehouse, North America's top specialty food distributor since 1985, offers over premium products to elite restaurants, hotels, and gourmet shops.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,226 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bateel is the brand of choice for connoisseurs of fine foods around the world.” Established in 1991, Bateel is synonymous with reinventing and elevating the date to a gourmet…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 914 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Headquartered in Warren, Michigan, Lipari Foods is a leading independent distributor built around global and specialty foods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 875 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hana group is specialized in the retail & food sector and wholesale distribution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 771 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Swiss Chalet Fine Foods has provided food service professionals with unique, premium quality products from Europe and abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 730 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We serve food manufacturers and artisans in over one hundred countries with quality indulgent ingredient solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 719 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The team at DPI Specialty Foods has worked for decades to become the premier Western United States distributor of specialty food products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 608 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dietz and Watson was founded in 1939 by Gottlieb Dietz, a talented young German sausage maker.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 525 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ofner was born in São Paulo in 1952 and, since then, has been part of countless stories and memories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 522 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Baker & Baker is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of bakery solutions, partnering with businesses across retail, food service, wholesale and artisan bakery channels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 456 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1990, Greco and Sons have been a part of the food service industry as an importer, distributor, and manufacturer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 438 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als führendes Unternehmen im Schweizer Abhol- und Belieferungsgrosshandel versorgen wir durch unsere 31 Abholmärkte und acht regionalen Logistikzentren rund Kunden.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 403 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gourmet Egypt has served demanding Foodies since 2006.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 384 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Driven by our desire to provide the best gourmet food for everyday living, Jones the Grocer aims to inspire and excite the imagination of all food lovers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 379 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O AKKI ATACADISTA é uma empresa que apresenta um novo conceito em qualidade e atendimento na comercialização e distribuição de produtos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 377 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Food Innovations, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 323 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CORDIALSA Le damos gusto a Ecuador MISIÓN Somos la red de distribución de Grupo Nutresa en Ecuador y existimos para entregar una propuesta de valor diferenciada a nuestros…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 317 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Comptoir de Mathilde : une aventure commencée en 2007, dans un local de fortune avec une équipe de 5 pionniers!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Rose Noire® is an innovative company founded in 1991.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 299 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dorothy Lane Market is the Midwest's award-winning gourmet grocer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In April 2017, Harvest Food Distributors of National City, California and Sherwood Food Distributors of Detroit, Michigan merged to form Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors - the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: artisanal food importers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names artisanal food importers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of artisanal food importers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name artisanal food importers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Artisanal food importers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among artisanal food importers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for artisanal food importers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “artisanal food importers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names artisanal food importers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among artisanal food importers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 17,788 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Artisanal food importers by location
24 lists · largest firstEvery Artisanal food importers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Artisanal food importers based in the United States938
- Artisanal food importers based in France651
- Artisanal food importers based in Italy580
- Artisanal food importers based in Brazil345
- Artisanal food importers based in Spain318
- Artisanal food importers based in the United Kingdom286
- Artisanal food importers based in the Netherlands240
- Artisanal food importers based in Germany236
- Artisanal food importers based in Canada213
- Artisanal food importers based in Belgium161
- Artisanal food importers based in Australia136
- Artisanal food importers based in Switzerland115
- Artisanal food importers based in India94
- Artisanal food importers based in Sweden88
- Artisanal food importers based in the United Arab Emirates72
- Artisanal food importers based in Argentina64
- Artisanal food importers based in Mexico58
- Artisanal food importers based in Portugal50
- Artisanal food importers based in Greece42
- Artisanal food importers based in Denmark38
- Artisanal food importers based in Chile37
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names artisanal food importers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many artisanal food importers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 6,336 artisanal food importers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Metro France, headquartered in Nanterre, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most artisanal food importers?
The United States leads with 938 companies, followed by France (651) and Italy (580). Every artisanal food importers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most artisanal food importers?
London leads with 87 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (74) and Paris (53).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 17,788 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 6,336 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.