Industry Breakdown of Companies
in Netherlands

Explore more than 1,851,478 Netherlands-based companies available in the HitHorizons database and see top industries and biggest players with highest sales and number of employees.

Current Country: Netherlands 1,851,478 (4.0%)
Largest Country: United Kingdom 6,843,326 (14.9%)
Total Number of Companies in Europe 45,886,110

According to our database, a total of more than 1,851,478 businesses are registered in Netherlands . That represents 4.03% of all companies available in the HitHorizons database. These Netherlands-based companies have a share of 9.63% of all sales generated by EU-based businesses and employ 5.04% of all EU employees.

Netherlands: TOP Industries

According to our database, the industry with the highest number of companies registered is Services (763,290 companies in total), followed by Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate (694,772) and Retail Trade (101,233).

This TOP 10 list was generated automatically using the latest data from the HitHorizons database. Search through the whole HitHorizons database using filtering criteria relevant for your search and get more data and insights on specific countries, industries, or segments with HitHorizons Screener.

Netherlands: TOP Industries 1,851,478 registered companies

  Industry, Number of Companies Number of
Companies
Services 763,290 41.2% 763,290
Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate 694,772 37.5% 694,772
Retail Trade 101,233 5.5% 101,233
Wholesale Trade 93,878 5.1% 93,878
Construction 52,789 2.9% 52,789
Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing 52,548 2.8% 52,548
Manufacturing 44,473 2.4% 44,473
Transportation, Communications, Electric, Gas, and Sanitary Services 43,302 2.3% 43,302
Unknown industry 2,472 0.1% 2,472
Public Sector 1,720 0.1% 1,720
Mining 1,001 0.1% 1,001

Netherlands: Breakdown of companies by SIC Code

The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC Code) is used to assign companies to specific industries. According to our database, the top 3 SIC Codes for Netherlands are Holding company (26.96%), Civic/social association (12.92%) and Security broker/dealer (5.23%).

This breakdown was generated automarically using the latest data from the HitHorizons database. Search through the whole HitHorizons database using filtering criteria relevant for your search and find companies leading within individual SIC Codes, SIC Code distribution among individual countries, or SIC Code breakdowns within other industries using HitHorizons Screener.

Netherlands: Breakdown of Companies by SIC Code 1,851,478 registered companies

Netherlands: TOP 10 companies with highest sales

According to our database, companies registered in the Netherlands generated € 7,790,360,800,709 in sales, which represents 9.63% of all sales generated by companies available in the HitHorizons database.

This TOP 10 list of companies operating in Netherlands was generated automatically using the latest data from the HitHorizons database. Search through the whole HitHorizons database using filtering criteria relevant for your search and get more data and insights on specific countries, industries, or segments with HitHorizons Screener.

Netherlands: TOP 10 companies with highest sales 1,851,478 registered companies

  Company Name, Sales & Share Sales
1. Trafigura Beheer B.V. € 171.5B 2.2% € 171.5B
2. Stellantis Ventures B.V. € 86.68B 1.11% € 86.68B
3. Aramco Overseas Company B.V. € 64.63B 0.83% € 64.63B
4. Ahold Delhaize Nederland B.V. € 62.79B 0.81% € 62.79B
5. Albert Heijn B.V. € 62.79B 0.81% € 62.79B
6. Dell Global B.V. € 53.81B 0.69% € 53.81B
7. Airbus SE € 52.15B 0.67% € 52.15B
8. LyondellBasell Industries N.V. € 49.10B 0.63% € 49.10B
9. HP Europe B.V. € 44.40B 0.57% € 44.40B
10. Ingka Holding Overseas B.V. € 42.04B 0.54% € 42.04B
Total Sales of the TOP 10 Companies € 689.9B

Netherlands: Top 10 Companies with Highest Number of Employees

According to our database, companies registered in the UK employ 19,670,972 people, which represents 5.04% of all people employed by companies available in the HitHorizons database. The company with the highest number of employees is Johnson Controls International B.V. (112,000), followed by Volvo Construction Equipment B.V. (92,260) and Heineken Holding N.V. (82,257).

This TOP 10 list of companies with the highest number of employees was generated automatically using the latest data from the HitHorizons database. Search through the whole HitHorizons database using filtering criteria relevant for your search and get more data and insights on specific countries, industries, or segments with HitHorizons Screener.

Netherlands: Top 10 Companies with Highest Number of Employees 1,851,478 registered companies

  Company Name, Employees & Share Number of Employees
1. Johnson Controls International B.V. 112,000 0.57% 112,000
2. Volvo Construction Equipment B.V. 92,260 0.47% 92,260
3. Heineken Holding N.V. 82,257 0.42% 82,257
4. Danone Nederland B.V. 80,143 0.41% 80,143
5. Randstad Holding Nederland B.V. 73,120 0.37% 73,120
6. politie 63,000 0.32% 63,000
7. Home Credit Group B.V. 53,767 0.27% 53,767
8. SHV Nederland B.V. 51,038 0.26% 51,038
9. STMicroelectronics Holding N.V. 48,515 0.25% 48,515
10. Philips Electronics Nederland B.V. 48,000 0.24% 48,000
Total Number of Employees of the TOP 10 Companies 704,100
The HitHorizons database covers companies registered in 60 countries (including the whole Europe). To ensure consistency of data across countries we removed proprietorships (self-employed individuals) and branches of foreign entities from the data included in our statistics. The last update of company data was on 7/1/2023.

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