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Top 25 Distribution companies based in France
RevenueBase identified 319 distribution companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 13,244 professional contacts across them, including 1,172 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers distribution companies headquartered in France, 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 15, 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 distribution companies based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 677 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formed in 1895, Gaumont is the first and oldest film company in the world, with offices in Paris and Los Angeles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 432 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “STUDIOCANAL, CANAL+’s in-house studio, is Europe’s leading film and television studio, with worldwide production and distribution capabilities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 368 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TAT productions recently expanded into film production, producing its first feature film THE JUNGLE BUNCH, distributed by SND.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SND (Société Nouvelle de Distribution) est la filiale de distribution de droits audiovisuels du Groupe M6.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nous sommes une société de distribution du groupe Madrigall où sont gérées près de 530 marques d’édition regroupées en 16 groupes de diffusion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1907 in the early days of cinema, Eclair is a historic, innovative and respected company in the motion picture and television industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cognacq-Jay Image Group is a media technology and services ecosystem supporting broadcasters, telecom operators, streaming platforms and content owners in the transformation of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Codifrance est une entreprise spécialisée dans la distribution alimentaire des commerces de proximité alimentaire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Crée il y a plus de 60 ans, DS Distribution est aujourd'hui le 1er distributeur français de produits Culturels en France en GSA (Grandes Surfaces Alimentaires), DS Distribution…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Acteur majeur de la distribution presse depuis 1945, MLP accompagne les éditeurs dans la diffusion de plus de parutions presse auprès de plus de points de vente et marchands de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GPdis, c'est une société de groupement de plateformes de distribution à votre service assurant un support commercial, technique et logistique quotidien pour plusieurs milliers de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VENTEO distribue depuis 2006 le meilleur du télé-achat Mondial à travers ses 20 écrans implantés dans les 4500 magasins.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Distributeur de fruits et légumes frais depuis 1973.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Armorine est une société fondée en 1932 dont les activités sont l’importation et la distribution d’hydrocarbures, la fabrication et la vente de lubrifiants, ainsi que…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We create, we manufacture, we import, we store, we distribute, we deliver.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Le Pacte, créé en décembre 2007, est une société indépendante de distribution, de vente internationale et d’édition vidéo qui défend un programme éclectique composé de films…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Beaucoup disent que le DVD est mort… Pourtant, chez Arcadès, nous prouvons chaque jour que les supports vidéo physiques ont encore de très beaux jours devant eux.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de quatre décennies, SORETRAC a pour préoccupation principale de protéger, d’habiller ou d’emballer avec le film le plus adapté.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “La « SOFEDIS » ou Société Française d’Edition et de Distribution est une filiale du groupe Gallimard.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Le Groupe GLD, une histoire de logistique La société Grenoble Logistique Distribution a été créée en 1989, par Patrick GOFFI et Jean AUDOUIN.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Under The Milky Way is an international digital film distributor (founded 2010) operating from 13 regional offices across more than 100 territories, delivering content to major…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Les Étoiles du Transport 2023 Vainqueur de l’Etoile de la Transition Écologique DISTRIBUTION Distribution Régionale en propre Des véhicules adaptés à vos besoins (hayon, ADR…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sonis propose à ses clients, Distributeurs et Exploitants de cinéma, une palette de services permettant de couvrir l’ensemble des besoins logistiques des métiers du cinéma …” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ITM LOGISTIQUE EQUIPEMENT DE LA MAISON INTERNATIONAL, notre activité repose sur la réception, le stockage, la préparation et l'expédition de marchandises liées à l'équipement de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Qu’est-ce que Le Meilleur du Cinéma?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 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: 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 distribution companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of distribution companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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Distribution companies based in France at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 319 companies.
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 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 distribution companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 1,172 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 15, 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.
Distribution companies by metro
- Distribution companies in Paris105
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 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 distribution companies are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 319 distribution companies headquartered in France 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?
Gaumont, headquartered in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most distribution companies?
Paris leads with 105 headquartered companies, followed by Issy-Les-Moulineaux (3) and Perpignan (3).
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 1,172 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 319 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 15, 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.
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