Meat distributors & importers
Wholesalers with chilled transport who supply shops and restaurants.
Meat & Charcuterie importers and distributors in Europe
For owners & export directors at food producers
Pick your country below. Each guide names the buyers who source meat & charcuterie there.
In short
Meat & Charcuterie importers and distributors in Europe are the companies that resell meat & charcuterie. They include meat distributors & importers, retail category buyers and HoReCa wholesalers. Typical products are fresh & frozen meat, processed meat & charcuterie and poultry. Buyers and suppliers meet at Anuga in Cologne. We publish buyer guides for Austria, Czechia and Germany. HoReCa means hotels, restaurants and catering.
How to find meat & charcuterie importers and distributors in Europe
Meat & Charcuterie importers and distributors in Europe buy meat & charcuterie to resell. They are not one kind of company. The buyer groups are meat distributors & importers, retail category buyers and HoReCa wholesalers. HoReCa means hotels, restaurants and catering. Typical products are fresh & frozen meat, processed meat & charcuterie and poultry.
Buyers and suppliers meet at Anuga in Cologne. A fair runs for a few days, once a year or less. You can reach the same buyers all year instead. What a buyer checks first is not the same in every country. Certificates, labels and pack sizes change with the market. The 3 country guides below name the buyers and what they want. We publish a country page only when we know that trade well. You approve every company before we approach anyone.
The buyer types for meat & charcuterie
Each group buys for a different reason. Choosing the wrong one is the most common reason a first export try fails.
Retail category buyers
The people who choose the meat and cured-meat range.
HoReCa wholesalers
Wholesalers who supply hotels, restaurants and canteens.
Typical products: fresh & frozen meat · processed meat & charcuterie · poultry
Trade fairs: Anuga (Cologne)
Meat & Charcuterie markets we cover
Each guide names the buyers, what they check before a listing, and how the trade is organised.
Austria — Meat & Charcuterie buyers
Austria's largest meat processor is a supermarket group, not an independent producer. That closes the fresh-meat shelf and opens two other doors: charcuterie the chains do not make, and the catering trade. Public kitchens must now declare where the animal was born, fattened and slaughtered.Czechia — Meat & Charcuterie buyers
Czechia eats far more pork than it raises, so processors and chains buy abroad every week. The trade-off is a strict rule book. Czech law fixes what a ham may be called, and your customer must announce each consignment to the vets before it arrives.Germany — Meat & Charcuterie buyers
Germany is Europe's biggest meat market, and its buyers are a set you can name. Importers and wholesalers with their own cold transport buy, and so do category buyers at the chains and discounters. So do suppliers to hotels, restaurants and catering (HoReCa), and processors who take cuts as an input. You can reach each of them directly, in German.
Your country is not listed for meat & charcuterie?
That does not mean no. A guide goes live only when we know that trade well. We open new markets and categories all the time. Ask us, and you will get a straight answer about whether we can help.
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Reviewed by the ProspectX export team, led by founder Casper Morawski (LinkedIn) · Last reviewed August 2026.