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Food importers database: 43,638 buyers you can search and contact.
BestFoodImporters is a database you log into. Search food importers, distributors and wholesalers in 200 countries by product, by origin and by location, then contact their purchasing managers directly.
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Get 3 matching food importers
Three steps, about two minutes. A free sample of the paid database: we run your brief through it and email you what a subscriber would find.
Step 1 of 3 — Your products
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We will send your 3 food importers by email.
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- 3 food importers that match your products and markets
- How many of the 43,638 companies fit your profile
- A link to book your 15-minute platform walkthrough
Access to the full database — all companies, contacts and filters — is a paid subscription. The match and the walkthrough are free.
“Having worked for 4 years on gaining new contacts for prospecting, I was worried that in the BestFoodImporters database I would find many companies I already know. Experience has proved this is not the case, as I’ve gained tens of new prospects in countries where it’s challenging and very time consuming to do the search myself due to linguistic issues. Working with the platform is proving to be easier than I thought and it saves time and energy which I can invest in other tasks related to sales.”
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| Contact name | Email / phone | Company name | Product categories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonas W••••••Purchasing Manager | Access Email | G•••••• Feinkost GmbHHamburg, Germany | Olive Oil & VinegarGourmet Food |
| Sarah K•••••Head of Buying | Access Email | M•••••••• Foods LtdLondon, United Kingdom | Olive Oil & Vinegar+2 |
| David R••••••Category Buyer — Grocery | No Email/Phone | A•••••• Imports Inc.Newark, United States | Olive Oil & VinegarDairy Products |
| Omar H••••••Procurement Director | Access Email | A••••••• Trading LLCDubai, UAE | Olive Oil & Vinegar+3 |
| Pieter de VriesImport Manager | Access Email | Mediterraan Import B.V.Rotterdam, Netherlands | Olive Oil & VinegarPasta & Noodles |
| Anna KowalskaProcurement Lead | Access Email | Smaki Europy Sp. z o.o.Warsaw, Poland | Olive Oil & VinegarGourmet Food |
Subscribers see all 2,048 contacts. Names, direct emails and LinkedIn profiles open up once you log in.
An olive oil search in the food importers database, as subscribers see it. Contact names and companies are masked in this preview.
Food producers, manufacturers and exporters using our databases
How access works
From a free sample to your own log in.
Run the free match
Your products, your origin, your markets: the same three inputs a subscriber types into the platform. Three matching food importers arrive by email.
See the platform
A 15-minute walkthrough of the search, the filters and the contact data, so you know exactly what a subscription gives you before you pay.
Subscribe and log in
€899 for six months of the complete food importers database, or the one-year plan with extra contacts and trade data. You search and contact importers yourself.
Why BestFoodImporters
Built for food exporters, checked by people.
Generic B2B databases list every company that has ever touched food. Ours is built around the way food exporters actually sell, and kept accurate by a research team.
15+ years in food trade data
We started in 2009 with 3,000 food importers in a spreadsheet. Today the platform covers 43,638 companies in 200 countries, built on the formula behind BestWineImporters.
Only the food industry
No generic company lists. Every profile is a food importer, distributor, wholesaler or retail buyer, searchable across 19 food categories and by product name.
Checked by a research team
Software gathers the data; our analysts verify each entry, validate the product lists and make sure emails are valid and contact details are current.
The purchasing contact, not a general inbox
More than 70% of companies include the purchasing department’s contact, with 50,000+ contact people and their LinkedIn profiles.
Fresh leads every month
Up to 500 new companies a month, many submitted by importers who ask to be listed because they are looking for new suppliers.
Origin filter and shipping data
Filter importers by where the products they buy are made, and see 1,800,000+ shipment records. No other provider offers the origin filter.
What a subscription includes
Food importer leads you can search as often as you need.
Subscribers log in at app.bestfoodimporters.com and work the food importers database themselves: searching, filtering and exporting leads as often as they like for the length of the subscription.
Search by category or product name
Nineteen food categories, from fruit and seafood to confectionery, dairy and pet food. Or type a specific product name to see exactly which companies import it.
Full profiles with financial data
Every profile carries country, state and city, the main product types the company imports, and financial data: employees, sales figures, year of founding and registration number.
The people who actually buy
Names, direct emails and LinkedIn profiles for purchasing managers, with several contact options per person, plus cold email and trade fair invitation templates to use them with.
New leads are added daily, so what you search is current for as long as your subscription runs. See how it works.
Only on BestFoodImporters
Filter food importers by where your products are made.
We are the only company that lets you filter importers by the country of origin of the products they buy. Not “who imports olive oil”, but who imports olive oil produced in Italy.
That is the difference between a buyer who might be interested and a buyer who already sources from your country, knows the paperwork and has a supplier you can compete with.
Coverage
Food importers in 200 countries. Start with yours.
Search importers country by country, down to state and city, with more than 50,000 contact people across the companies. Choose a country below and the free match opens with that market already selected.
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Georgia
- Hong Kong
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Macao
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- UAE
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Comoros
- Congo
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Réunion
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- British Virgin Islands
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthelemy
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin
- Saint Vincent
- Sint Maarten
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
- US Virgin Islands
Trade & shipping data
See who is already shipping, and to whom.
Customs data covering more than 1,800,000 global food shipments sits alongside the importer profiles: the importer, the product, the arrival, the port of entry.
It is also how you track competitors: how much they ship and who buys from them, which tells you which accounts are worth approaching and what you are up against. Included with the one-year subscription.
| Importer | Product | Port of entry | Arrival |
|---|---|---|---|
| G•••••• Feinkost GmbH Germany |
Extra virgin olive oil | Hamburg | 12 Feb |
| M•••••••• Foods Ltd United Kingdom |
Olive oil, balsamic vinegar | Felixstowe | 28 Jan |
| A•••••• Imports Inc. United States |
Olive oil, pecorino | Newark | 19 Jan |
Illustrative view of the shipment records available in the platform.
What arrives before you subscribe
Three food importers from the database. Free.
When you finish the match we run your brief through the food importers database and email you three importers it returns, with their country, company type, what they import and the company data attached to their profile.
Company names are partially masked in the email, because full profiles, purchasing contacts and direct emails live inside the platform and open up when you subscribe.
Your 3 matching food importers
- Type
- Importer & distributor — Hamburg
- Imports
- Olive oil, pasta, antipasti
- Company
- 75 employees · founded 1998
- Contacts
- 2 purchasing managers on file
- Type
- Importer & wholesaler — London
- Imports
- Olive oil, vinegar, deli
- Company
- 140 employees · founded 1987
- Contacts
- 3 purchasing managers on file
- Type
- Importer — Newark, New Jersey
- Imports
- Olive oil, cheese, tomatoes
- Company
- 60 employees · founded 2006
- Contacts
- 2 purchasing managers on file
Illustrative preview. Your matches are drawn from live platform data and will differ by product, origin and market.
Questions
What food exporters ask.
Is this a food importers list or a database?
A database you log into. A food importers list is a static file that everyone else has bought too. A subscription gives you a log in at app.bestfoodimporters.com, where you search 43,638 food importers, distributors and wholesalers by product, country of origin, location and company type, open full profiles and export the leads you need. It is updated daily. The free match shows you three of those companies before you decide anything.
How do I find food importers in a specific country?
Filter the database by country, then narrow it by state or city, by product and by company type. It covers 200 countries, from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States to the UAE, Japan and South Africa. To try it, pick up to three target countries in the free match and we email you three importers in those markets that fit your products.
What does a food importer lead include?
Each lead is a company profile with country, state and city, the main product types it imports, and financial data covering employees, sales figures, year of founding and registration number. For the purchasing decision makers you get name, direct email and LinkedIn, with several contact options per person.
Is the free match really free?
Yes. The match and the three importer profiles cost nothing and need no card. It exists so you can see whether your products and target markets have a real buyer pool before you pay for access to the database.
Which food categories does the database cover?
Nineteen: fruit and vegetables, fish and seafood, confectionery and snacks, olive oil and vinegar, tea and coffee, dairy, meat, gourmet food, soft drinks, water and juice, organic and health food, frozen food and ready meals, spices and seasonings, sports nutrition, grains and rice, honey, sugar and spreads, pasta and noodles, baby food, ethnic food and pet food. You can also search by a specific product name.
Can I filter importers by where my products are made?
Yes, and no other provider offers it. Inside the platform you filter importers by the country of origin of the products they buy, so you find the companies actively importing olive oil produced in Italy, rather than everyone who imports olive oil.
What does access cost?
The complete food importers database is 899 EUR for six months of access. The one-year plan saves 15%, adds more than one contact per company (22,178 extra leads) and includes the trade and shipping data. If you sell in a single category, the category databases cost less. Current prices are always on the pricing page.
What is the trade and shipping data?
Customs records covering more than 1,800,000 global food shipments: the importer, the product, the arrival and the port of entry for each one. It also lets you track competitors, how much they ship and who buys from them. It comes with the one-year plan.
How current is the data?
New leads are added daily and existing records are updated continuously for as long as your subscription runs, so the companies you search are ones we believe are importing now.
Can I see the platform before I decide?
Yes. Book a 15-minute walkthrough and we will show you the search, the origin filter and a company profile with its purchasing contacts, using your own product and target country as the example.
See the database before you subscribe.
Fifteen minutes, screen shared: the importer search, the origin filter, a full company profile and its purchasing contacts, using your product and your markets as the example.