Company Index Stats

How many Food & Beverage companies are there?

There are 1,454,401 Food & Beverage companies in the DiscoLike index as of October 2026.

Companies can carry several industry labels, so counts overlap.

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Food & Beverage covers the production and supply of food and drink: manufacturers, beverage brands, distributors and coffee roasters.

Where it meets Agriculture

Crop farms and food manufacturers often carry both labels: 11% of Food & Beverage companies also carry Agriculture & Natural Resources. Agriculture grows it, Food & Beverage processes and brands it, and vertically integrated producers carry each.

D2C exceeds the index norm
29% sell D2C, against 8% index-wide, making direct-sales companies unusually prevalent in this group.
Human Resources is barely larger
Human Resources has 1,500,630 companies versus 1,454,401 in Food & Beverage, so size-based expansion reaches a near-peer group.
Food manufacturers dominate sub-industries
Food Manufacturer labels 764,541 companies, covering more than half the group; sub-industry labels can overlap.

968,483 carry Food & Beverage as their main industry; 485,918 carry it as an additional label.

By Country

Top 30 countries for Food & Beverage

1United States281,619
2India90,777
3Japan68,181
4Germany68,062
5United Kingdom61,508
6Italy58,620
7Spain46,272
8France44,121
9Canada41,640
10Brazil38,802
11Russia33,789
12Australia33,487
13Türkiye32,155
14Netherlands30,210
15China26,774
16Switzerland19,299
17Vietnam18,393
18Poland18,359
19Mexico18,286
20South Korea17,230
21Indonesia17,196
22Iran15,938
23Belgium14,896
24Czechia12,724
25South Africa11,808
26United Arab Emirates11,742
27Taiwan11,729
28Argentina11,511
29Austria11,395
30Greece10,930
All 153 countries with Food & Beverage companies

By Company Size

Employee-size distribution

1-10 employees125,417
11-50 employees33,954
51-200 employees9,563
201-500 employees1,541
501-1000 employees344
1001-5000 employees309

By Sub-Industry

Top sub-industries

These 4 sub-industries account for 88% of the 1,454,401 Food & Beverage companies by label rather than by distinct company. Sub-categories can span adjacent industries, and a company carrying several labels is counted under each.

1Food Manufacturer764,541
2Food Distributor204,742
3Beverage Brand200,396
4Coffee Roaster115,881

By Region

Regional rollups for Food & Beverage

European Union

381,824

DACH

98,756

Nordics

26,219

Benelux

45,887

GCC

21,510

ASEAN

63,823

ANZ

42,089

Map

Where Food & Beverage companies are

Most Food & Beverage companies are concentrated in United States, India, Japan.

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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, "Food & Beverage companies", Company Index Stats, October 2026. https://discolike.com/company-stats/food-beverage/

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