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Food & beverage wholesalers · Madinah

How many food and beverage wholesalers are in Madinah?

Wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco. Figures for Madinah, compared with the rest of the Kingdom.

2,966

active registrations in Madinah — 4th among Saudi cities.

Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep

Madinah has 2,966 active commercial registrations listing food & beverage wholesalers activities as of 16 September 2026 — 5.3% of the Kingdom's total and the 4th-most of any city.

Food & beverage wholesalers account for 5.3% of Madinah's classified registrations, 1.4× their share nationally — a city where the sector is unusually concentrated.

Across the Madinah region as a whole there are 3,542.

Food & beverage wholesalers in Madinah
2,966
5.3% of the Kingdom
City rank
4 of 69
Cities with registrations in the sector
Concentration
1.4×
Above the national average
Nationally
55,955
3.9% of classified registrations
FAQs

Common questions

How many food and beverage wholesalers are there in Madinah?

2,966 active commercial registrations in Madinah list food & beverage wholesalers activities as of 16 September 2026 (Ministry of Commerce data).

How does Madinah compare with other cities?

Madinah ranks 4th of 69 cities for food and beverage wholesalers, with 5.3% of the national total.

How do I set up in food & beverage wholesalers in Madinah?

Confirm the activity code and its licence conditions, obtain a MISA investment licence (for foreign owners), register the company with the Ministry of Commerce, then get the municipal (Balady) licence for your premises in Madinah. Alpha Consultancy runs the whole sequence.

Source & method

Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.

Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.

Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.

Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.

No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.

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