Food importers and distributors in Denmark
For owners & export directors at food producers
We arrange meetings with food buyers in Denmark for manufacturers. Pick your product category to explore the buyer routes.
Find your buyersSee if there are buyers for your product30 minutes, free. If we can't help, we'll say so.Product categories we cover in Denmark
Each guide names the buyers, what they check before a listing, and how the trade is organised.
Bakery & Pastry importers & distributors
Two groups supply almost all of Denmark's packaged bread and the in-store bake-off behind it. That closes the everyday bread shelf and opens three others: sweet and ambient bakery, foodservice, and Nordic own-brand. Rye bread sits at the centre of Danish eating and is its own recipe tradition.Beverages importers & distributors
Danish beverage buyers serve grocery, convenience and foodservice. Deposit eligibility depends on the drink and its package, so registration belongs in the first buyer brief.Confectionery & Snacks importers & distributors
Denmark taxes sweets by weight, and the tax survived a full attempt to abolish it in 2026. Your Danish importer pays it, so every price talk starts there. Above that sit two discount chains at the top of grocery and one shared Nordic own-brand desk.Frozen Food importers & distributors
Denmark is a discount-first market. Salling Group, Coop, Rema 1000 and Lidl decide huge frozen volume. Foodservice wholesalers supply a dense Copenhagen restaurant scene, and buyers ask about sustainability early. Buyers work in English, and a Danish listing counts across the Nordics.Organic & Health Food importers & distributors
Denmark is the most organic grocery market on earth. Almost every shopper knows the red Ø organic label, which the state controls. Organic is normal here, even in discount, and public kitchens buy certified organic at scale. Buyers work in English, and a Danish listing counts across the Nordics.
Who buys food in Denmark
These are the groups a buyer conversation usually starts from. We book meetings with the people inside them.
| Salling Group | Largest retailer — Netto (discount), Føtex (supermarket), Bilka (hypermarket) |
|---|---|
| Coop Danmark | Consumer cooperative — Kvickly, SuperBrugsen, Coop 365 discount; Änglamark organic brand |
| Rema 1000 | Fast-growing hard discount (Reitan group) — a channel of its own in Denmark |
| Lidl Danmark | Hard discount — growing share |
| Dagrofa | Retail (Meny, Spar) plus Dagrofa Foodservice — the way into restaurants and canteens |
- Discount stores account for roughly half of Danish grocery. That is among the highest shares in Europe (industry estimates).
- Denmark has the world's highest organic share of the grocery basket, well into double digits (industry estimates).
- Salling Group, Coop and Rema 1000 together hold most of Danish grocery (industry estimates).
How to find food importers and distributors in Denmark
In short
Food importers and distributors in Denmark buy food from producers abroad. They sell it on to shops, restaurants and factories. The main buyers are Salling Group, Coop Danmark and Rema 1000. The channels that matter are Discount, Retail, Organic and HoReCa / foodservice. HoReCa means hotels, restaurants and catering. Discount stores account for roughly half of Danish grocery. That is among the highest shares in Europe (industry estimates).
Food importers and distributors in Denmark buy food from producers abroad. They sell it on to shops, restaurants and factories. The channels that matter in Denmark are Discount, Retail, Organic and HoReCa / foodservice. HoReCa means hotels, restaurants and catering. We publish 5 category guides for Denmark, one per product group.
Denmark is a small grocery market and discount defines it. Salling Group (Netto, Føtex, Bilka), the Coop cooperative, the fast-growing discounter Rema 1000 and Lidl run most of the trade. Discount alone is roughly half of all grocery. Denmark is also the most organic market in the world. Almost every Danish shopper knows the red Ø organic label, which the state controls. Organic is normal here, even in discount. Danish buyers work in English and decide on documents. They weigh climate footprint, packaging and animal welfare heavily. Copenhagen has a dense restaurant and public-kitchen scene, supplied through wholesalers such as Dagrofa. A Danish listing reads as a reference across the Nordic countries.
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Reviewed by the ProspectX export team, led by founder Casper Morawski (LinkedIn) · Last reviewed August 2026.