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Top 25 Specialty food distributors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,621 specialty food distributors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 79,807 professional contacts across them, including 21,186 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 specialty food distributors 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 18, 2026. Country and city lists for specialty food distributors 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 specialty food distributors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9,445 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We’ve grown to become the largest family-operated broadline food service distributor in North America by upholding the same business approach since 1897-being passionately…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,713 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At KeHE, we’re all about goodness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,402 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Performance Foodservice delivers more than food, we deliver partnership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,425 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cheney Brothers is a family owned and operated broadline distributor offering over stocked items from gourmet to everyday.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,347 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,273 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The SYGMA Network is dedicated to helping our customers succeed by exclusively offering our products and services to chain restaurants across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,096 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FreshPoint is North America’s largest exclusively owned produce distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 914 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Headquartered in Warren, Michigan, Lipari Foods is a leading independent distributor built around global and specialty foods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 832 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MARR è società leader in Italia nella distribuzione specializzata di prodotti alimentari alla ristorazione extra domestica (Foodservice).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 796 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Baldor is one of the largest importers and distributors of fresh produce and specialty foods in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 719 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 696 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Labatt Food Service, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas is the ninth largest foodservice distributor in the nation, serving food-away-from-home customers in five states.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 512 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Desde 2005, a MegaG Alimentos tem se dedicado a atender com qualidade e competência os mais diversos segmentos do Food Service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 504 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nicholas and Company is a third generation, family owned, independent broadline food distributor headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 492 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quirch Foods is a food distribution company servicing ethnic and national grocers as well as foodservice distribution customers across the United States, the Caribbean, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 488 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From the independent operator to the largest foodservice brands in the world, we help our customers run their businesses more profitably and efficiently.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 455 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chef Middle East is the region’s most trusted and forward-thinking foodservice distributor, empowering the hospitality industry through global F&B products, expert service, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 434 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Atacado Vila Nova, com mais de 90 anos no mercado, é a empresa do Grupo Vila Nova especializada na distribuição multimarcas com foco em atendimento ao pequeno e médio varejo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 318 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In the foodservice industry, great taste must be delivered on time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 305 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Fortune Fish and Gourmet is a founder-run importer, processor, and distributor of premium seafood, specialty meat and gourmet food products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 305 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Super Adega - Atacadista de Bebidas e Alimentos” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 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: specialty food distributors. 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 specialty food distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of specialty food distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name specialty food distributors. 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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Specialty food distributors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 18, 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 specialty food distributors, 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
- 17 countries, largest first: the United States, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and 7 more. Country and city lists for specialty food distributors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “specialty food distributors”. 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 specialty food distributors), 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 specialty food distributors, 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, 21,186 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 18, 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.
Specialty food distributors by location
20 lists · largest firstEvery Specialty food distributors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Specialty food distributors based in the United States1,261
- Specialty food distributors based in Brazil320
- Specialty food distributors based in France317
- Specialty food distributors based in Italy286
- Specialty food distributors based in Spain217
- Specialty food distributors based in the United Kingdom216
- Specialty food distributors based in Canada198
- Specialty food distributors based in Germany150
- Specialty food distributors based in the Netherlands117
- Specialty food distributors based in Australia111
- Specialty food distributors based in Sweden100
- Specialty food distributors based in Argentina67
- Specialty food distributors based in Belgium64
- Specialty food distributors based in India57
- Specialty food distributors based in the United Arab Emirates51
- Specialty food distributors based in Mexico45
- Specialty food distributors based in Switzerland44
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 specialty food distributors, 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 specialty food distributors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,621 specialty food distributors 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?
Gordon Food Service, headquartered in Grand Rapids, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most specialty food distributors?
The United States leads with 1,261 companies, followed by Brazil (320) and France (317). Every specialty food distributors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most specialty food distributors?
Sao Paulo leads with 57 headquartered companies, followed by London (53) and New York (41).
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 21,186 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,621 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 18, 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.