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Top 25 Candy and confection companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 6,683 candy and confection companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 227,734 professional contacts across them, including 40,398 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers candy and confection companies 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for candy and confection companies 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 candy and confection companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 52,623 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mondelēz International, Inc.(NASDAQ: MDLZ) is an American multinational confectionery, food, and beverage company based in Illinois which employs approximately individuals around…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 9,815 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are passionate for chocolate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 9,629 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Perfetti Van Melle is a privately owned company, producing and distributing candies and chewing gums in more than 150 countries worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 9,341 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Hershey Company is an industry-leading snacks company with a purpose to make more moments of goodness and a vision to lead next generation snacking.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,393 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ülker Hakkında: Merhum Sabri Ülker ve Asım Ülker tarafından 1944 yılında temelleri atılan Ülker, tüketicilerine her lokmada mutluluk vadeden global bir marka olarak faaliyetlerine…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,959 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alegrar la vida de todo el mundo a través del sabor, ese es nuestro propósito y lo que durante casi 100 años ha estado detrás de la construcción de marcas icónicas, sabores que…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,647 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’ve moved!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,346 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos um Grupo que nunca teve medo de inovar.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,884 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For generations, Ferrara has created sugar confections that enable moments of sweetness, celebration, and connection for candy lovers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,879 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O ano de 1981 marca o início da história do Grupo Arcor no Brasil, com a aquisição da Nechar Alimentos Ltda, uma pequena fábrica de balas do interior paulista.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,717 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ismail Industries Ltd (IIL) happens to be one of the largest manufacturers in Pakistan, founded in 1989 as a Public Limited Company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,460 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Garoto: tradição brasileira em chocolates há mais de 80 anos A Chocolates Garoto foi fundada em 1929 e fica localizada em Vila Velha (ES).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,454 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For 100 years, See's Candies has been dedicated to making candy Mary See's way.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,345 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cloetta is Northern Europe’s leading confectionery company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,277 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Storck is one of the biggest confectionery manufacturers in the world and produces high-quality chocolate specialties and sugar confectionery.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,242 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “United Biscuits is part of pladis- a global biscuit and confectionery company with operations in 120 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,219 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nós somos uma das maiores empresas brasileiras de sweet snacks, snacks de amendoim e de chocolates com alcance nacional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,094 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1852, the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a manufacturer and marketer of premium chocolate products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,050 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Şölen, one of Turkey’s bravest and most innovative brands, works to add value to the land on which it was born and its people through bold investments and the employment it has…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 983 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos una compañía líder en el mercado de chocolates y snacks en Colombia, que desde 1920, brinda a nuestros consumidores productos nutritivos y confiables, con marcas queridas y…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 956 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe CÉMOI emploie en France et dispose de.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 892 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an organization of growth and innovation, for 70 years we have achived to create magical moments of life through sensational candies, in which joy is dressed in colors and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 852 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Harald is a brazilian company that produces chocolates, compounds, coatings and fillings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 800 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cadbury Adams USA has it all wrapped up - in thin little rectangles wrapped in foil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 766 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos uma empresa gaúcha especialista em doces e guloseimas que está há mais de três décadas no mercado.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: candy and confection companies. 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 candy and confection companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of candy and confection companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name candy and confection companies. 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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Candy and confection companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 candy and confection companies, 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 candy and confection companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “candy and confection companies”. 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 candy and confection companies), 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 candy and confection companies, 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, 40,398 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 19, 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.
Candy and confection companies by location
23 lists · largest firstEvery Candy and confection companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Candy and confection companies based in the United States1,099
- Candy and confection companies based in Brazil609
- Candy and confection companies based in Italy376
- Candy and confection companies based in India318
- Candy and confection companies based in the United Kingdom311
- Candy and confection companies based in France286
- Candy and confection companies based in Germany249
- Candy and confection companies based in Spain202
- Candy and confection companies based in Türkiye196
- Candy and confection companies based in the Netherlands168
- Candy and confection companies based in Canada158
- Candy and confection companies based in Sweden126
- Candy and confection companies based in Belgium120
- Candy and confection companies based in Poland101
- Candy and confection companies based in Australia98
- Candy and confection companies based in Mexico74
- Candy and confection companies based in Argentina65
- Candy and confection companies based in Switzerland53
- Candy and confection companies based in the United Arab Emirates51
- Candy and confection companies based in Egypt48
- Candy and confection companies based in Colombia47
- Candy and confection companies based in Denmark40
- Candy and confection companies based in South Africa36
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 candy and confection companies, 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 candy and confection companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 6,683 candy and confection companies 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?
Mondelēz International, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most candy and confection companies?
The United States leads with 1,099 companies, followed by Brazil (609) and Italy (376). Every candy and confection companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most candy and confection companies?
Sao Paulo leads with 111 headquartered companies, followed by Istanbul (54) and London (46).
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 40,398 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 6,683 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 19, 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.