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Top 25 Specialty grocery stores worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,072 specialty grocery stores worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 28,906 professional contacts across them, including 2,257 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Paris the largest hub.
This list covers specialty grocery stores 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for specialty grocery stores 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 grocery stores worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1982, The Fresh Market, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,109 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Farm Boy, it’s all about the food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 940 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our humble beginnings as a small, corner, fruit & veggie stand on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is still at the heart of our business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 730 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “It all started with $1,100 and a dream for Ben and Dorthy Haggen and Doug Clark when they opened their first store in 1933 in Bellingham, Washington.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 516 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1975, Busch's has been bringing people together through great food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 438 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “It all began in 1971 with one store in Seattle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 415 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace is a gourmet shopping experience, where customers can choose from dozens of homemade pastas and sauces, to hand-rolled sushi made fresh throughout the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 403 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gourmet Egypt has served demanding Foodies since 2006.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 318 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're here to inspire our guests to - Live Well, with Taste.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 299 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dorothy Lane Market is the Midwest's award-winning gourmet grocer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Citarella Story Established in New York City in 1912, Citarella continues to be a family-run business, celebrating more than 100 years of culinary history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 251 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Healthy Options is the first and largest all-natural and organic products retailer across 40 stores in the Philippines, specializing in premium, natural food, and health products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 245 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Nino Salvaggio International Marketplace, it is our goal and mission to create a unique, ever changing and vibrant shopping experience for our customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1939, Di Bruno Bros.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Much more than a store, McCaffrey’s Food Markets are Exceptional.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Farro is a New Zealand-owned and operated business, founded in 2006 by Janene and James Draper.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Summerhill Market is Toronto’s destination for premium groceries, chef-prepared meals, and specialty products sourced from around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Little Farms has been Singapore’s trusted neighbourhood market and café since 2016, specializing in top-quality all-natural, organic produce, meats, and seafood, offering over…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A specialty grocer and gathering place for Alberta families and friends since 1959, the Italian Centre Shop’s long devotion to authentic Italian and European tastes and traditions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Foodstories is a gourmet food experience designed for well-travelled, affluent, nuanced food connoisseurs and those that have arrived in life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Stong’s Market is your local full service grocery store, established in 1931 in Vancouver by Carson Stong.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 20 years with care, integrity and respect, Annam Gourmet is proudly the pioneer in a gourmet industry, continuously find and bring brands and gastronomy from around…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zupan’s Markets is a local and family-owned specialty market focusing on the best fresh, quality ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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 grocery stores. 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 grocery stores.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of specialty grocery stores, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name specialty grocery stores. 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 grocery stores worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 specialty grocery stores, 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 specialty grocery stores are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “specialty grocery stores”. 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 grocery stores), 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 grocery stores, 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, 2,257 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 22, 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 grocery stores by location
4 lists · largest firstEvery Specialty grocery stores list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
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 grocery stores, 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 grocery stores are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,072 specialty grocery stores 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?
The Fresh Market, headquartered in Greensboro, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most specialty grocery stores?
The United States leads with 322 companies, followed by France (136) and Canada (62). Every specialty grocery stores list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most specialty grocery stores?
Paris leads with 15 headquartered companies, followed by New York (13) and Sao Paulo (13).
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 2,257 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,072 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 22, 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.