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Top 25 Purchasing cooperatives based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 94 purchasing cooperatives headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 1,168 professional contacts across them, including 545 with verified work emails. Koln is the largest hub.
This list covers purchasing cooperatives headquartered in Germany, 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 21, 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 purchasing cooperatives based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die DEG Alles für das Dach eG blickt auf eine über 75-jährige Unternehmensentwicklung zurück: Verbindlichkeit und Verlässlichkeit sind die Grundpfeiler unseres Handelns.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The MHK Group is a modern service company and a successful association for the medium-sized kitchen, furniture and sanitary trade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Dachdecker-Einkauf Ost eG ist ein genossenschaftlicher Fachgroßhandel für die Produktbereiche - Dach, Wand und Abdichtungstechnik - Zimmerer- und Klempnerbedarf -…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die DEX eG ist eine der führenden überregionalen Einkaufsgenossenschaften, die auf Tradition und Vertrauen aufbaut, um Materialien von höchster Qualität zu liefern.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die FÜR SIE Handelsgruppe Seit ihrer Gründung 1962 hat sich die FÜR SIE Handelsgenossenschaft zu einem großen und modernen Handelsunternehmen mit Umsätzen in Milliardenhöhe…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Der Einrichtungspartnerring ist einer der größten Möbelverbände in Deutschland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Herzlich willkommen bei CARAT Automotive - Ihrem starken und kompetenten Partner im Fahrzeugteilehandel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die BAMAKA AG – Geld spart man im Einkauf Die BAMAKA AG ist die führende Einkaufsgesellschaft der Bauwirtschaft mit über angeschlossenen Unternehmen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die EKK plus ist nach über 25 Jahren am Markt eine der größten und erfolgreichsten Einkaufsgemeinschaften im deutschen Gesundheitswesen: mit einem alljährlich vermittelten Umsatz…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gemeinschaft macht stark - nach außen und innen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BAUVISTA – Eine starke Gemeinschaft Als starker Partner für Bauen, Wohnen und Garten vereint BAUVISTA die Anforderungen von Baumärkten und Baustoffhändlern in einer großen…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Quantum GmbH hat ihren Sitz in Ratingen und ist eine 2007 von Stadtwerken gegründete Beschaffungskooperation für Energie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stolz blicken wir auf unsere über 100-jährige Unternehmensentwicklung zurück: Eine Erfolgsgeschichte, die uns heute zu einem der führenden Bedachungsgroßhändler für Dachbaustoffe…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gemeinsam erfolgreich BÜRORING ist eine Schnittstelle zwischen dem stationären Büro-/Fachhandel und der Arbeitswelt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind als Marktführer die Drehscheibe zwischen Industrie und Handwerk." Die 1963 gegründete ZEDACH eG ist die Zentralgenossenschaft des Dachdeckerhandwerks, die in der Gruppe…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die HOGAST ist eine der führenden Einkaufsorganisationen der Hotellerie und Gastronomie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als Einkaufsgenossenschaft übernehmen wir den zentralen Einkauf für Sanitätshäuser, orthopädietechnische Werkstätten und Orthopädie-Schuhtechniker.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir – der ZEB – sind seit über 50 Jahren am Markt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GES Großeinkaufsring des Süßwaren- und Getränkehandels eG is an independent and self-determined cooperative of medium-sized beverage wholesalers, specialist store operators and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Konsumgenossenschaft & Immobilienentwicklung 🤝 Mitglied werden 🤑 Vorteile nutzen Dividende erhalten Immobilienangebote entdecken 🫶 Jetzt auf” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die BEGROS ist einer der größten und stärksten Möbeleinkaufsverbände in Deutschland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die ServiCon Service & Consult eG ist die Dienstleistungsgesellschaft der gewerblichen Verbundgruppen und Franchise-Systeme sowie die kommerzielle Schwestergesellschaft des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die BÄKO Ost eG ist innerhalb der gesamten BÄKO-Landschaft eine von 25 Regionalgenossenschaften.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die MEG Rhein-Ruhr Als moderne Genossenschaft ist die MEG Rhein-Ruhr ein Dienstleistungsunternehmen für das Malerhandwerk.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: purchasing cooperatives. 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 purchasing cooperatives.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of purchasing cooperatives, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name purchasing cooperatives. 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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Purchasing cooperatives based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 94 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 purchasing cooperatives, 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 Germany whose own description of what they do matches “purchasing cooperatives”. 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 purchasing cooperatives), 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 purchasing cooperatives, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany 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, 545 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 21, 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.
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 purchasing cooperatives, 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 purchasing cooperatives are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 94 purchasing cooperatives headquartered in Germany 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?
DEG Alles FÜR DAS Dach EG, headquartered in Coblenz, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most purchasing cooperatives?
Koln leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Berlin (3) and Essen (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 545 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 94 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 21, 2026.
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