General Food Wholesalers For Restaurants, Across The EU

Transgourmet Österreich is a nationwide cash-and-carry and delivery wholesaler supplying restaurants, hotels, canteens and other foodservice operators with roughly 27,000 food and non-food articles, including its own beverage division (Transgourmet Trinkwerk) and fresh fish/meat/dairy ranges. It grew out of the former C+C Pfeiffer group (renamed after acquisition by Swiss-owned Transgourmet Holding/Coop) and operates 17-18 pickup and delivery locations across Austria.

KASTNER Gruppe is one of Austria's leading gastronomy wholesalers, offering around 60,000 articles — fresh meat, poultry, fish and produce, frozen goods, beverages, tableware and gastro equipment — from 8 distribution centres to roughly 36,000 customers. A fleet of 90 company trucks delivers to about 11,000 regular customers across Austria and neighbouring countries, with dedicated sub-divisions such as KASTNER AllesWein (4,800+ wines) and KASTNER Geschirr&Co.

Belgian foodservice wholesaler distributing food and non-food products to restaurants, caterers and institutional kitchens across Belgium and Luxembourg from a network of 10 distribution centers. It is part of the international Bidcorp group and states it serves about 2,000 customers daily with a fleet of 172 trucks.

ZB Centrale, part of the Horeca Totaal group, is a horeca cash & carry wholesaler in Bruges, founded in 1962 as a family business, offering food, beverages, non-food and cleaning products across a 4,500 m² facility with no minimum order quantity. It serves restaurants, hotels and caterers in West Flanders with frozen foods, fresh produce, drinks, cleaning supplies, meat products and horeca equipment, and operates sister cash & carry branches in Ostend and Antwerp.

METRO is the largest wholesale company in Bulgaria, operating since 1999 with 11 Cash & Carry stores plus a Food Service Delivery arm and an online B2B marketplace (MShop). It supplies over 7,000 food and non-food items — fresh, frozen and dry goods, professional kitchen equipment and cleaning products — to restaurants, hotels, caterers and other professional (HoReCa) customers nationwide.

A food distributor, wholesaler and importer based in Paphos serving Cyprus foodservice and retail businesses with ambient, chilled and frozen grocery products. Its own website lists its customer categories as wholesalers, supermarkets/retailers, restaurants/cafes/bars, and hotels/schools/government, and it states island-wide delivery in Cyprus. It describes itself as serving hundreds of B2B customers, visited by dedicated sales and telesales teams.

Family-owned Cypriot food distributor founded in Limassol in 1954 by George Rologis, now in its fourth generation, headquartered in Nicosia with ambient, chilled and frozen warehousing and its own logistics fleet. Distributes retail groceries and, as an exclusive importer of premium refrigerated, frozen (meat, seafood, bake-off) and specialty products, supplies roughly 900 HORECA points including hotels, restaurants, universities, hospitals, airports, casinos and schools.

A nationwide food distributor supplying frozen, chilled and fresh foods (meat, fish, ice cream, bakery, vegetables) plus related non-food products to roughly 24,000 HoReCa customers and 12,000 retail outlets across the Czech Republic. Operates its own production facilities (including beef/pork processing and a large game-processing plant in Kralupy nad Vltavou) and is part of the international Bidcorp foodservice group.

Citus has imported and sold frozen and chilled goods since 1994 from Litoměřice, with a broad range spanning meat, poultry, game, fish and seafood, frozen fruit/vegetables/mushrooms, potato products, dairy, eggs, smoked goods and pantry staples. It supplies gastronomic operations — workplace and school canteens, hospitals and restaurants — using its own transport, alongside a wholesale counter and a separate retail shop.

Cash-and-carry wholesaler operating more than 100 markets across Germany, selling roughly 50,000 food and non-food articles to commercial customers. Its own materials and its listing as an official DEHOGA (German hotel and restaurant association) industry partner describe it as a wholesale supplier of food, beverages and gastronomy supplies to restaurants and hospitality businesses.

Chefs Culinar traces its roots to a dairy-goods wholesaler founded on 15 January 1923 in Goch am Niederrhein, and has grown into one of Germany's leading foodservice delivery wholesalers, headquartered in Kiel. It supplies gastronomy, hotels and institutional catering nationwide from 9 branches and 25 support points with around 25,000 food and non-food articles, plus consulting, training and kitchen-planning services through its CHEFS VALUE division.

Hørkram Foodservice is a nationwide Danish wholesale total-supplier to the foodservice market, offering fruit and vegetables, dairy, fish, meat, beverages, baked goods, desserts and non-food items to professional kitchens. It operates from two distribution centres, in Sorø (Zealand) and Hørning (Jutland), and describes itself as having more than 50 years of experience in the trade.

AB Catering describes itself as one of Denmark's largest and leading foodservice wholesalers, part of the Dansk Cater A/S group, supplying over 70,000 product lines to professional kitchens nationwide — restaurants, cafes, food carts, large-scale kitchens, private companies, associations and public institutions. It operates through five regional branches.

AS Kaupmees & Ko is described by the European Catering Distributors association as Estonia's largest and most recognized foodservice wholesaler, distributing food and beverage products to restaurants, hotels, bars and other HoReCa businesses. It operates seven cash-and-carry stores and a delivery network covering the whole country, with a catalogue of more than 16,000 products and around €70 million in reported annual sales.

A wholesale food distributor founded in November 2002 that deliberately focused on the HoReCa channel (hotels, restaurants, catering) rather than general retail. It supplies dairy, meat, dry goods and frozen products from warehouses in Tallinn, Pärnu and Tartu, holds ISO 22000:2018 food-safety certification, carries roughly 3,500 products for about 1,200 regular clients, and also delivers into the Riga and Helsinki regions.

A HoReCa food distributor operating since 2008, supplying hotels, restaurants and catering companies nationwide with fruit, vegetables, berries, dairy, meat, fish, eggs, cheese, baked goods, preserves, oils, spices, beverages and household essentials. The company employs over 100 people and also runs a consumer e-commerce arm for Tallinn and Harju County.

Makro España is a cash-and-carry wholesale distributor of food and non-food products, operating 37 stores across 15 Spanish regions. It was founded in 1972 and serves professional customers including restaurants, hotels and catering businesses.

Kespro, owned by Kesko, is Finland's largest foodservice wholesaler, supplying a broad range of food and kitchen products to restaurants, hotels, cafés, service stations and public-sector kitchens. It operates 13 wholesale stores plus a nationwide logistics network offering next-day delivery.

A foodservice wholesaler founded in 2021 and based in Espoo, offering over 25,000 products — meat, poultry, fish, seafood, cheeses, cured meats, fruit, vegetables and dry goods — to restaurants, hotels, cafés, catering companies, retail shops and public-sector kitchens nationwide. It runs its own delivery fleet with temperature-controlled logistics covering roughly 1,400 km per route.

Transgourmet France is a national food and hygiene-products wholesaler delivering to commercial and collective catering professionals as well as bakery-pastry businesses. It is part of Transgourmet Holding, the wholesale/cash-and-carry arm of the Swiss Coop group, and operates specialised divisions (Transgourmet Fruits & Légumes, Transgourmet Seafood, Transgourmet Cash & Carry, Transgourmet Export) alongside regional distribution centres across France.

A wholesale food trading company distributing cheese products, pasta, cold cuts, frozen goods, dairy, olive oil and other groceries, operating for a century (since 1924) as a family business now in its fourth generation. It explicitly serves supermarket chains, hotels, bakeries, restaurants and food laboratories, sourcing internationally as well as domestically.

Wholesale distributor of a broad HoReCa food assortment (frozen fish, vegetables, meat and potato products, dairy, oils and fats, cured/semi-preserved meats, canned goods, spices, bakery fillings) plus food packaging and disposable tableware, sold to restaurants and other hospitality businesses across Croatia.

Roto Dinamic is a large Croatian food, beverage and hospitality-supplies distributor, operating 18 distribution centers, 9 cash-and-carry locations and 26 retail shops nationwide, and serving hoteliers, restaurateurs and retailers with roughly 9,000 products from over 380 suppliers. It holds exclusive Croatian distribution for brands including Ron Barceló, Canard Duchêne and Estrella Galicia; part of the Fortenova group.

Food import and distribution company supplying dry, chilled and frozen goods, including major international dairy and specialty-food brands (Arla, Lurpak, Müller, Starbucks, Castello, Apetina), to retail chains and HoReCa (restaurant/hotel) customers across Hungary.

Budapest food wholesaler founded in 1993, distributing dry goods and packaged foods — pasta, oils, spices, canned goods, beverages, household chemicals, dietary products — 95% sourced from Hungarian manufacturers. Supplies restaurants, cafés, catering companies, schools, hospitals and social-care institutions across Budapest and Pest County, with HACCP certification.

BWG Foods is one of Ireland's leading retail, foodservice and wholesale distribution companies, supplying more than 20,000 direct foodservice customers as well as over 1,000 independent retail stores through brands including SPAR, EUROSPAR, MACE, LONDIS and XL. It is headquartered in Tallaght, Dublin, and has operated in Irish retail and wholesale for over 40 years.

Ireland's largest foodservice/cash-and-carry wholesaler, a brand of the Cork-headquartered, 150-year-old Musgrave Group, operating nine depots and directly employing over 1,100 people in its foodservice division. Serves more than 45,000 customers — cafes, pubs, clubs, five-star hotels and all 22 Michelin-starred restaurants on the island of Ireland — across a range of over 25,000 products, and is the official foodservice sponsor of the Irish Hotels Federation.

MARR is an Italian foodservice wholesale distributor supplying restaurants, hotels, pizzerias, resorts and corporate canteens with more than 25,000 food products, operating both as a traditional distributor and through cash-and-carry outlets. Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Rimini, it distributes nationwide through more than 40 distribution units, serving over 55,000 clients.

Italian foodservice distributor headquartered in Teolo (Padua), supplying over 8,000 food and non-food product references — meat (with an internal butchery), fish, dairy, beverages, produce and cleaning/hygiene supplies — to HoReCa businesses. Reports more than 8,000 customers and €170 million turnover in 2025, operating for over 47 years.

Kauno Grūdai, part of the Akola group, is a large Lithuanian food and animal-feed producer with a 130-year milling history, making flour, quick-preparation cereals, pasta, soups and other food products alongside compound feeds and premixes. It runs a business self-service ordering portal for trade customers and exports to more than 50 countries.

Sanitex is a Lithuanian wholesale trade and logistics company, founded in 1992 and headquartered in Kaunas, that operates "PROMO Cash&Carry" wholesale centres in major Lithuanian cities including Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Panevėžys, Utena and Alytus. It distributes branded grocery and food products (for companies such as Mars, Procter & Gamble, Kellogg's and Tchibo) to retail and business customers, and expanded into Latvia in 2008.

Lithuanian foodservice distributor operating for around 30 years, headquartered in Ramučiai near Kaunas, running its own transport fleet across the Baltic region. Supplies over 2,400 frozen, chilled, bakery, meat, Asian and ready-to-eat product lines plus non-food items (disposable packaging, hygiene and cleaning supplies) to the HoReCa sector, retail stores and public institutions, carrying brands such as Unilever, Santa Maria and Bonduelle.

Linkgel, trading under Link Paul, is a Mamer-based wholesale food distributor with over 75 years of activity, supplying dry, fresh, frozen and organic products - including fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and pizzas - plus cleaning supplies, with nationwide delivery in Luxembourg. It explicitly serves three segments: Horeca (restaurants, hotels, catering), retail (supermarkets, bakeries, butchers) and service stations.

Bidfood Latvia is a general food wholesaler dedicated to the hospitality/foodservice (HoReCa) sector, supplying hotels, restaurants and cafés with a broad range of food products. It is part of the international Bidcorp group and has operated in Latvia since 2009, serving over 1,000 HoReCa clients across roughly 1,700 delivery locations.

Founded in 1997 and based in Riga, a food wholesaler supplying roughly 1,400 products — groceries, coffee, tea, confectionery, canned goods, beverages, bread, dairy, pasta and fish products — to about 350 state institutions (including hospitals, schools and the military), 2,000 independent retailers, and public catering, hotel and restaurant establishments; also exports to Estonia, Lithuania and other European countries.

A Malta-based food distribution and marketing company supplying branded ambient, chilled and food-service products — including Danone, Heinz, Lay's, Walkers, Tropicana and Quaker among 40+ represented brands — to the island's HoReCa sector, including QSR chains such as Burger King, KFC and Pizza Hut. Part of Quinco Holdings plc, a company listed on the Malta Stock Exchange.

A family-run Maltese importer and distributor of frozen and chilled food, covering meat, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruit, dairy, oriental foods and plant-based items, reaching both retail and HoReCa establishments across Malta and Gozo. Sole supplier in Malta of the Dewfresh brand (burgers, mince, sausages, bacon, ham and chicken products).

Sligro is a Dutch wholesale food distributor ('Horeca Groothandel') that supplies restaurants and other hospitality businesses through a network of cash-and-carry branches across the Netherlands. Its assortment covers meat, game and poultry alongside general groceries, drinks and professional kitchen supplies. It operates as part of Sligro Food Group.

Cash-and-carry wholesale distributor operating a dedicated "Horeca" division that supplies food and beverage products to restaurants, hotels and catering businesses. Operates 18 warehouse locations across Poland (including Warsaw, Wrocław, Kraków, Poznań and Gdańsk) and is part of Transgourmet Polska.

Aviludo is a Portuguese food-distribution company dedicated to the professional foodservice sector, supplying chefs and restaurant owners with meat (poultry, beef, lamb, rabbit, pork), fish and seafood, charcuterie, fruit and vegetables, dairy and eggs, bakery and pastry items, groceries, prepared meals, beverages, and cleaning/hygiene and disposable products. It has operated across Portugal, north to south, with its own delivery fleet since 1984.

Selgros operates a chain of cash & carry wholesale stores across Romania (23 locations including multiple in Bucharest, plus Cluj-Napoca, Constanța, Brașov, Timișoara and Iași) selling food, beverages and non-food/cleaning products to registered HoReCa professionals, resellers and other businesses. It runs a HoReCa-focused 'Gastro Hub' program (chef masterclasses, culinary content) and offers online ordering with delivery via a partner service.

Sweden's largest restaurant wholesaler, supplying food raw materials, kitchen equipment and non-food items to restaurants and other foodservice/commercial kitchens across the country. Operates multiple regional sales offices and warehouses and highlights partnerships with regional Swedish food producers.

One of Sweden's largest foodservice wholesalers, tracing to a Malmö family business acquired by ICA in 1969 and renamed Menigo Foodservice in 2007; it is now part of Sysco. Menigo delivers around 34,000 product items — fresh, frozen, dry goods, kitchen equipment and consumables — daily to roughly 15,000 restaurant, large-kitchen and retail-service customers from eight locations.

Importer and distributor of food articles founded in 1991 and headquartered in Puconci, describing itself as a leading Slovenian food wholesaler for large and small retailers, innkeepers, hoteliers and institutional kitchens. Distributes over 1,700 items daily (frozen fruit/vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, dairy, ice cream, condiments, pasta, rice, canned goods and baked goods) from four logistics centres (Puconci, Ljubljana, Celje, Izola) covering nine regional sales territories; wholly owned by Šiftar d.o.o.

Bidfood Slovakia is a nationwide foodservice wholesaler that has operated in the Slovak gastronomy market for more than 20 years, delivering fresh, chilled and frozen food, meat and dairy products, groceries, drogerie/non-food items and kitchen equipment to restaurants and catering businesses. Orders are placed through sales representatives, a customer service centre, or the mojbidfood.sk e-shop, with deliveries offered up to six times a week.