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Top 25 Food distributors based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 5,078 food distributors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 285,869 professional contacts across them, including 82,369 with verified work emails. Miami is the largest hub.
This list covers food distributors headquartered in the United States, 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 food distributors based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26,405 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 19,536 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “US Foods is one of America’s great food companies and a leading foodservice distributor, partnering with approximately restaurants and foodservice operators to help their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 7,938 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 7,377 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a top wine, spirits and CBD distributor in the nation, RNDC's national reach helps suppliers by building strategic relationships with on- and off-premise customers to elevate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 6,885 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 5,890 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC is a leader in food solutions across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 4,868 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3,713 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At KeHE, we’re all about goodness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3,619 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Farmer Brothers delivers the coffee that fuels the backbone of the economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 3,478 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC is a leader in food solutions across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 3,421 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1934, S&K Sales Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 3,402 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Performance Foodservice delivers more than food, we deliver partnership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2,446 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ATD is the leading wholesale tire distributor in the U.S, proudly serving our 80K+ customers since 1935.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2,136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At W.B.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2,046 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1960, Dot Foods is North America’s largest less-than-truckload consolidator in the food industry and one of the largest private, family-owned businesses in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,962 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Johnson Brothers is a third-generation, family-owned wine, beer, and spirits distributor founded in 1953 by Lynn Johnson in Saint Paul, Minnesota.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,879 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Imperial Dade is the leading independent distributor of foodservice packaging, industrial packaging, chemicals, janitorial supplies, and equipment in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,850 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since WebstaurantStore's start in 2004, we have worked hard to build an innovative, easy-to-use website that meets the purchasing needs of foodservice professionals throughout the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,574 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Golden State Foods, we’re proud to be one of the largest diversified suppliers in the foodservice industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,474 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ben E.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,436 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Food Services of America (FSA) is one of the nation's largest broadline foodservice distributors, serving customers throughout the mid-west, west and Alaska from our regional…” 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: 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 food distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of food distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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Food distributors based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 15, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 5,078 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 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 food distributors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 82,369 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.
Food distributors by metro
- Food distributors in Miami157
- Food distributors in New York109
- Food distributors in Houston92
- Food distributors in Los Angeles88
- Food distributors in Chicago83
- Food distributors in Dallas44
- Food distributors in Bronx41
- Food distributors in Portland37
- Food distributors in Philadelphia35
- Food distributors in San Diego34
- Food distributors in Tampa33
- Food distributors in Atlanta32
- Food distributors in Denver32
- Food distributors in Orlando31
- Food distributors in Doral29
- Food distributors in Phoenix28
- Food distributors in Las Vegas27
- Food distributors in San Antonio27
- Food distributors in Vernon27
- Food distributors in San Francisco26
- Food distributors in Columbus25
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 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 food distributors are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 5,078 food distributors headquartered in the United States 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?
SYSCO, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most food distributors?
Miami leads with 157 headquartered companies, followed by New York (109) and Houston (92).
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 82,369 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 5,078 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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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.
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