Company Index Stats

How many Automotive companies are there?

There are 2,436,313 Automotive companies in the DiscoLike index as of October 2026.

Companies can carry several industry labels, so counts overlap.

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Automotive covers the vehicle aftermarket and retail chain: repair shops, parts suppliers, dealerships, tyre and body shops, detailing and towing.

Where it meets Manufacturing

Parts suppliers appear in both. Automotive covers the firm selling and fitting the part, Manufacturing the firm producing it, and a supplier with its own plant carries each.

Restaurants nearly matches Automotive
Restaurants has 2,434,566 companies against Automotive's 2,436,313, so either industry boundary yields a similarly sized company set.
Consumer sellers are overrepresented
64% sell to consumers (B2C), above the 55% index baseline; B2C companies will dominate over the 27% selling to businesses (B2B).
Parts suppliers nearly match repair shops
Auto Parts Supplier labels cover 716,700 companies, close to 815,369 Auto Repair Shops. These labels can overlap, so do not treat their counts as separate companies.

2,006,793 carry Automotive as their main industry; 429,520 carry it as an additional label.

By Country

Top 30 countries for Automotive

1United States685,445
2Germany169,811
3United Kingdom147,673
4Russia99,798
5Brazil82,040
6Canada77,818
7Australia71,060
8France69,498
9Italy65,169
10Japan62,302
11China61,057
12Netherlands58,062
13Spain50,280
14India49,333
15Türkiye48,292
16Poland45,498
17Czechia29,106
18Switzerland25,719
19South Africa24,189
20Mexico20,983
21Sweden20,249
22Belgium20,213
23Indonesia19,595
24Iran18,292
25Austria16,499
26Hungary16,432
27Ukraine16,373
28Vietnam15,818
29Romania15,284
30New Zealand14,473
All 156 countries with Automotive companies

By Company Size

Employee-size distribution

1-10 employees242,624
11-50 employees57,238
51-200 employees13,417
201-500 employees1,865
501-1000 employees516
1001-5000 employees356

By Sub-Industry

Top sub-industries

These 7 sub-industries carry 2,642,390 labels against a total of 2,436,313 Automotive companies, because a company carrying several sub-industry labels is counted under each.

1Auto Repair Shop815,369
2Auto Parts Supplier716,700
3Car Dealership430,311
4Tire Shop192,450
5Auto Detailing173,879
6Auto Body Shop161,965
7Towing151,716

By Region

Regional rollups for Automotive

European Union

668,708

DACH

212,029

Nordics

56,310

Benelux

79,703

GCC

22,804

ASEAN

58,227

ANZ

85,533

Map

Where Automotive companies are

Most Automotive companies are concentrated in United States, Germany, United Kingdom.

See the interactive map

Methodology

Aggregate counts from the DiscoLike index of 80M+ companies. Companies without a resolvable location are counted under 'unknown', and cells below the minimum count threshold are folded into an 'other' bucket. Industry and business-type categories overlap: a company carrying several labels is counted in each.

Updated monthly. Current snapshot: October 2026. See the full Company Index Stats.

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DiscoLike, "Automotive companies", Company Index Stats, October 2026. https://discolike.com/company-stats/automotive/

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