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Top 25 Wholesale grocery distributors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,564 wholesale grocery distributors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 382,053 professional contacts across them, including 63,640 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 wholesale grocery 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for wholesale grocery 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 wholesale grocery distributors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70,439 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Kroger, we believe no matter who you are or how you like to shop, everyone deserves affordable, easy-to-enjoy, fresh food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 26,405 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food and related products to customers who prepare meals away from home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 18,979 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bij Albert Heijn geloven we dat eten en drinken een essentiële rol speelt bij de grote uitdagingen in de maatschappij.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 9,445 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 7,938 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 7,933 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At UNFI, we bring our retail customers a wide assortment of natural, organic, specialty, fresh and conventional products, along with tailored data, insights, and services, to help…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 6,885 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Performance Food Group is an industry leader and one of the largest food and foodservice distribution companies in North America with more than 150 locations in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 5,890 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC is a leader in food solutions across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4,868 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Breakthru Beverage Group is one of the leading beverage wholesalers in the United States and the largest broker in Canada, representing a portfolio of premier spirits, wine, beer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 3,993 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos uma empresa parte do grupo Holandês SHV (Steenkolen Handeis Vareeniging), uma organização familiar que originou-se no ano de 1896, em Utrecht, na Holanda.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 3,842 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Goed eten.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 3,713 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At KeHE, we’re all about goodness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3,478 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC is a leader in food solutions across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3,402 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Performance Foodservice delivers more than food, we deliver partnership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3,309 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Há 24 anos, o Roldão Atacadista faz parte da vida de famílias, empreendedores e empresas, oferecendo economia, qualidade e uma experiência de compra cada vez melhor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3,210 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Makro operates 22 massive warehouse stores situated in the large metropolitan centres in South Africa selling food, liquor and general merchandise to retail and wholesale…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2,149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “O Spani Atacadista está entre as principais empresas do setor atacadista brasileiro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2,125 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc.(AWG) is the nation’s largest cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets, serving 1,100 member companies and 3,500 locations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,870 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Reinhart Foodservice is part of Performance Foodservice and together we are one of the largest broadline foodservice distributors in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,686 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MAKRO is a leading wholesale distribution company.” 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: wholesale grocery 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 wholesale grocery distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of wholesale grocery distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name wholesale grocery 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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Wholesale grocery distributors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 wholesale grocery 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
- 18 countries, largest first: the United States, Italy, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Canada, Sweden, Argentina and 8 more. Country and city lists for wholesale grocery distributors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “wholesale grocery 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 wholesale grocery 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 wholesale grocery 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, 63,640 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.
Wholesale grocery distributors by location
21 lists · largest firstEvery Wholesale grocery distributors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in the United States1,368
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Italy725
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Brazil545
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in France307
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in the United Kingdom272
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Germany223
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Spain175
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Canada153
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Sweden128
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Argentina113
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Australia100
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in the Netherlands92
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Mexico88
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in the United Arab Emirates86
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Türkiye77
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Belgium47
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in Chile34
- Wholesale grocery distributors based in South Africa31
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 wholesale grocery 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 wholesale grocery distributors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,564 wholesale grocery 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?
Kroger, headquartered in Cincinnati, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most wholesale grocery distributors?
The United States leads with 1,368 companies, followed by Italy (725) and Brazil (545). Every wholesale grocery distributors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most wholesale grocery distributors?
Sao Paulo leads with 76 headquartered companies, followed by London (57) and Dubai (54).
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 63,640 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,564 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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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.