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Specialty food importers: the worldwide list
RevenueBase identified 2,705 specialty food importers across the 16 countries with a published list, as of September 2026, and tracks 32,476 professional contacts across them, including 8,833 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This is the worldwide list of specialty food importers: the 16 country lists RevenueBase publishes for the category, summed and ranked as one. The company count is that sum, not a census of every company on earth; a country with no published list is not counted. 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.
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 importers across the 16 countries with a published list
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 730 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We serve food manufacturers and artisans in over one hundred countries with quality indulgent ingredient solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 377 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Food Innovations, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 299 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dorothy Lane Market is the Midwest's award-winning gourmet grocer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1975 in Green Brook, New Jersey, Ferraro Foods initially operated out of a small garage with just a single truck.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A STRONG PASSION FOR QUALITY This motto is the key to the Kaefer fine food company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HOS Global Foods is the leading South Asian Food importer and distributor in the USA and has been delivering pure and quality products for over 50 years with 200+ employees at 10…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Wholesale Food Distributor and Manufacturer As the largest seafood distributor in the Southeast and one of the most innovative companies in our industry, Inland has built its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For over 70 years, Atalanta Corporation has been one of the foremost specialty food importers of cheese, charcuterie, deli meat, grocery and seafood products from around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 256 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Foodcoast International seeks to serve food importers, distributors, buying houses, agents, food service chains and enthusiasts by providing the highest quality product at the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sabor & tradição para sua mesa | Trazer ao Brasil os melhores sabores, originários das principais regiões produtoras do mundo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 229 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Surya Foods boasts an extensive range of over 1,300 SKUs, offering customers a one-stop-shop for all their international food needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1963, Frits Schrouff, the founder of Heuschen & Schrouff, saw how much the Indonesian immigrants longed the tasteful products from their home country far away.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Asia Express Food was founded in 1991 and has grown into a leading European importer of Asian & African food products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 206 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Casa Flora é referência no mercado de alimentos e bebidas no Brasil.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1934, Roland Foods has inspired people around the world to explore their culinary passions with our portfolio of premium global ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Keany Produce & Gourmet began in 1978 with a man, a truck and a restaurant.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1939, Di Bruno Bros.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 18, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 181 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The journey of Intergrow begins in the palm-fringed corridors of Kerala, a state known for its rich and exotic spices.” 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 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 specialty food importers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of specialty food importers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name specialty 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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Specialty food importers 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 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
- This worldwide list is the sum of the 16 country lists RevenueBase publishes for specialty food importers, largest first: the United States, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Brazil, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands and 6 more. Its company and contact totals add up those lists, so they understate the true worldwide figures: a country with no published list is not counted. The ranked table is exact across the countries covered, the largest companies of every country list ranked together with duplicates removed.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “specialty 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 specialty 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 specialty 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, 8,833 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- The country lists behind this page 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 importers by location
16 lists · largest firstEvery Specialty food importers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date; the worldwide figures above are the sum of the 16 country lists.
Countries
- Specialty food importers based in the United States755
- Specialty food importers based in France276
- Specialty food importers based in Italy263
- Specialty food importers based in the United Kingdom218
- Specialty food importers based in Canada176
- Specialty food importers based in Spain176
- Specialty food importers based in Brazil162
- Specialty food importers based in Germany151
- Specialty food importers based in Australia111
- Specialty food importers based in the Netherlands111
- Specialty food importers based in India81
- Specialty food importers based in Switzerland61
- Specialty food importers based in Belgium60
- Specialty food importers based in Sweden44
- Specialty food importers based in Argentina34
- Specialty food importers based in Denmark26
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 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 specialty food importers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,705 specialty food importers across the 16 countries with a published list, as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code. The figure is the sum of those country lists, not a census of every company worldwide.
What is the largest company on this list?
The Chefs' Warehouse, headquartered in Ridgefield, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most specialty food importers?
The United States leads with 755 companies, followed by France (276) and Italy (263). Every country with a published specialty food importers list is linked on this page.
Which city has the most specialty food importers?
London leads with 68 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (42) and New York (40).
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 8,833 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,705 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. The country lists behind this page were pulled from the company graph 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.