Sales among the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers totaled $15.65 billion in 2023, which is up from $14.54 billion in 2022, according to the FE&S 2024 Distribution Giants study. In 2023, sales increased for 80% of dealers within the top 100, who shared their data.
Sales among the top 100 FE&S dealers totaled $14.51 billion in 2022, which is up from $11.63 billion in 2021, according to the FE&S 2023 Distribution Giants study. In 2022, sales increased for 95% of dealers within the top 100, compared with 85% last year.
Sales among the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers totaled $11.72 billion in 2021, up from $9.4 billion in 2020, according to the FE&S 2022 Distribution Giants study. In 2021 sales increased for 85% of the dealers within the top 100, compared with 16% last year. That means 15% saw a decline in revenues in 2021, which is an indicator of how much the industry has fluctuated from one year to the next.
Sales among the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers totaled $9.4 billion in 2020, down 14.37% from 2019’s total of $10.92 billion, according to the FE&S 2021 Distribution Giants study. In 2020 sales increased for only 16% of the dealers within the top 100, compared with 70% last year. That means 84% saw a decline in revenues in 2020, which should come as a surprise to nobody. This represents the first time since 2008 that total sales among the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers declined.
Sales among the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers totaled $11.06 billion in 2019, up 7.9 percent from 2018’s total of $10.25 billion, according to FE&S’ 2020 Distribution Giants study. This year, sales increased for 70 percent of the dealers within the top 100, while 26 percent reported a decline in sales. Four percent of dealers reported no change in sales.
Sales among the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers totaled $10.296 billion in 2018, up 7.82 percent from $9.549 billion in 2017, according to FE&S’ 2019 Distribution Giants study. Sixty-nine percent of the top 100 dealers reported increased sales, up 4 percent from last year. And 22 percent reported a decline in sales, which is 5 percent less compared to last year.
Sales among the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers totaled $9.637 billion in 2017, up 11.37 percent from $8.653 billion in 2016, according to FE&S’ 2018 Distribution Giants study. Sixty-five percent of the top 100 dealers reported increased sales, down 16 percent from last year. And 27 percent reported a decline in sales, which is 12 percent more compared to last year.
Sales among the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers totaled $9.022 billion in 2016, up 14.85 percent from $7.84 billion in 2015, according to FE&S' 2017 Distribution Giants study. Eighty-one percent of the top 100 dealers reported increased sales. And 14 percent reported a decline in sales.
The industry's longest-running study of the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers by sales volume.
The industry’s longest running study of the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers by sales volume.
The Industry's original study of the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers by sales volume.
FE&S’ annual look at the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers by sales volume.
FE&S' annual look at the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers by sales volume.
Foodservice Equipment and Supplies magazine’s annual proprietary research results in the listing of the top 100 foodservice equipment and supplies dealers by sales volume.
For the second consecutive year, a harsh economic climate took its toll on foodservice equipment and supplies dealers. In 2009, 64 of the top 100 E&S dealers reported a decline in sales, and according to FE&S estimates, 11 dealers were flat or experienced lower sales than in 2008. All told, FE&S projects sales among the top 100 dealers declined by $583 million, or 11.89 percent, in 2009.
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