Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Retail distribution companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,978 retail distribution companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 236,810 professional contacts across them, including 29,584 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers retail distribution 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 17, 2026. Country and city lists for retail distribution 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 retail distribution companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31,636 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Atacadão é uma empresa do Grupo Carrefour Brasil, com mais de 370 unidades de autosserviço e 36 atacados de entrega e centros de distribuição, que garantem o abastecimento de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 23,405 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our team of friendly faces works as one to provide shopping trips and a career experience you won’t find anywhere else.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 11,604 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Saving people money so they can live better is a big job.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 7,938 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 5,890 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC is a leader in food solutions across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 4,712 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Core-Mark, being Driven to Deliver means taking extreme ownership and turning commitment into action-every customer, every order, every day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 4,613 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundado em 2001, o Tenda Atacado é uma empresa 100% brasileira com 45 lojas na Grande São Paulo, na capital, litoral e interior paulista, e emprega mais de 8 mil colaboradores.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,842 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Goed eten.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3,713 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At KeHE, we’re all about goodness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 3,584 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empresa reconocida a nivel nacional en Distribución de productos de consumo masivo -Ferretería, Hogar y electrónica- y variedades en canales como Tienda a tienda, autoservicios…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3,427 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2,661 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HAVI, part of Morgan Street Holdings, a Chicago-based company and private investment group, is a global leader in integrated supply chain management for the food industry…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,397 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We Provide a Better Way to Commerce: Essendant is a distribution company that provides wholesale distribution and fulfillment services (3PL) to resellers and manufacturers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,357 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Transmed is a full-service distributor & partner, managing and controlling the entire distribution value chain and building brands that people love.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Spani Atacadista está entre as principais empresas do setor atacadista brasileiro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,947 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gist is part of M&S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,738 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A UnidaSul, fundada em 2006, é a quarta maior empresa do setor supermercadista do Rio Grande do Sul.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,668 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Desde 1949, a Tambasa constrói uma trajetória marcada por trabalho, ousadia e visão de futuro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,476 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orgill, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,394 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ALDI è una realtà di riferimento nel panorama della Grande Distribuzione Organizzata a livello internazionale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With a team of around people, we operate the largest retail supply chain network across Australia and New Zealand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NUESTRA MISIÓN Dar el mejor servicio integral de distribución de marcas líderes de productos del consumo masivo, generando negocios que satisfagan a toda la cadena de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Al Maya Group, headquartered in Dubai, UAE, is a diversified company established in 1982 by our Founder and Chairman Mr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,093 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Distribuidora DisDAL® é uma empresa nascida da visão empreendedora de seus acionistas, que somaram forças e experiência de mais de 20 anos atuando nos mercados de distribuição…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,058 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Axfood's purpose is to create more quality of life for everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 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: retail distribution 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 retail distribution companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of retail distribution companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name retail distribution 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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Retail distribution companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
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 retail distribution 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
- 24 countries, largest first: the United States, Brazil, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, India, Germany, Spain, Canada, Türkiye and 14 more. Country and city lists for retail distribution companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “retail distribution 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 retail distribution 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 retail distribution 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, 29,584 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 17, 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.
Retail distribution companies by location
24 lists · largest firstEvery Retail distribution companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Retail distribution companies based in the United States819
- Retail distribution companies based in Brazil652
- Retail distribution companies based in Italy332
- Retail distribution companies based in France291
- Retail distribution companies based in the United Kingdom284
- Retail distribution companies based in India224
- Retail distribution companies based in Germany153
- Retail distribution companies based in Spain146
- Retail distribution companies based in Canada130
- Retail distribution companies based in Türkiye109
- Retail distribution companies based in Argentina108
- Retail distribution companies based in Mexico88
- Retail distribution companies based in the United Arab Emirates83
- Retail distribution companies based in the Netherlands76
- Retail distribution companies based in Indonesia75
- Retail distribution companies based in Australia66
- Retail distribution companies based in Colombia57
- Retail distribution companies based in the Philippines48
- Retail distribution companies based in Chile44
- Retail distribution companies based in Poland44
- Retail distribution companies based in South Africa44
- Retail distribution companies based in Belgium43
- Retail distribution companies based in Sweden36
- Retail distribution companies based in Switzerland26
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 retail distribution 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 retail distribution companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,978 retail distribution 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?
Atacadão, headquartered in Sao Paulo, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most retail distribution companies?
The United States leads with 819 companies, followed by Brazil (652) and Italy (332). Every retail distribution companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most retail distribution companies?
Sao Paulo leads with 91 headquartered companies, followed by London (49) and Dubai (41).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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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.