GlobalPetIndex currently holds 390 published company records for Sweden. This page is not a single leaderboard — ranking a manufacturer against a retail chain against a grooming operator tells you nothing useful — so below it maps how the national supply base actually splits apart, then names the best-documented companies inside each part of it.
How the Sweden pet industry breaks down
Every record is filed under one business type. The distribution is what determines who you are really competing with or selling to:
| Business type | Companies | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 252 | 64.6% |
| Brand | 40 | 10.3% |
| Retailer | 40 | 10.3% |
| Pet Chain Store | 34 | 8.7% |
| Manufacturer | 19 | 4.9% |
| Distributor | 5 | 1.3% |
| Service Provider | 4 | 1% |
| Importer | 3 | 0.8% |
| Distributor & Wholesaler | 2 | 0.5% |
The shape of that table is the single most useful fact on this page. A market dominated by retail and service records behaves nothing like one dominated by production: the first is fought over footfall and catchment, the second over tooling, minimum runs and export paperwork.
Who leads each part of the market
Each name below is the best-documented record in its category, ranked by reported revenue, headcount, website, founding year and product coverage. Read these as an indicator of documentation completeness rather than a verdict on pet-trade leadership. Large general retailers that publish audited group accounts — supermarkets, drugstores and DIY chains that carry pet lines but are not pet-trade businesses — will outrank specialist operators here purely because they disclose more. Where that happens, treat the entry as channel rather than as a counterparty.
Other
974553184 · ADEXI AB · ALRp Agentur AB · AMTELE AB
Brand
Bozita (150M EUR, 201-500 staff) · Halla Petfood (founded 1928) · Robur (founded 1903) · Magnusson Petfood
Retailer
Jula AB (SEK 11.50B (2024), 1,001+ staff, founded 1979) · RUSTA AB (1,001-5,000 staff, founded 1986) · Hemköp (Axfood) (SEK 19.94B (2023), 6,000 staff) · ICA (SEK 148.00B (2023), 80,000 staff)
Pet Chain Store
Granngården Pet Section (SEK 2.6B, 1,000 staff, founded 1880) · Arken Zoo (EUR 187.9M, 900 staff, founded 1987) · Buddy Pet Foods Shop · Doggie.se
Manufacturer
Hööks/ HÖÖKS HÄSTSPORT AB · OEM Automatic AB · Back on Track · Halla Swedish Pet Food
Distributor
Partille Tool Trading AB · Skoimport Fjarran ostern · D & E Trading Oy · FS Petcare AB
What the records show
Across all 390 pet companies indexed for Sweden: 60% carry a checkable company website, 3% a reported revenue figure, 4% a founding year and 4% a headcount. Read those percentages as much as the headline count. High website coverage means you can reach most of the market by email tomorrow; low revenue coverage means almost every commercial conversation has to start with a request rather than a quote.
Product segments represented
Where records name the segments they actually cover, they cluster like this:
- Dog Products — 14 companies
- Cat Products — 10 companies
- Dog Food — 8 companies
- Cat Food — 7 companies
- Horse Blanket — 3 companies
- Pet Food — 2 companies
- Horse Feed — 1 companies
How to use this list
This page is built for anyone mapping a national supply base end to end before choosing a segment.
Start with the type split below rather than with a single shortlist. In most developed markets the retailers, independent stores and service operators outnumber producers several times over, so a sourcing conversation, a competitor scan and a catchment analysis all start in different places depending on which side of that split you actually want.
Use the completeness figures as a triage tool. Records carrying a checkable website and a revenue figure can usually be approached directly; records without them need a trade show, an industry association or a local agent before they are worth your time.
Note where a general retailer appears. Supermarkets, drugstores and DIY chains that carry pet lines sit in the count because they genuinely sell pet products, but they are not pet-trade counterparties — treat them as channel, not as companies.
How this ranking is built
Every entry comes from the GlobalPetIndex company database. Each record is scored on reported annual revenue, employee or store counts, a working company website, founding year and product coverage, and that score sets the order. Companies with no independently verifiable footprint are left off rather than guessed at. Where two records resolve to the same trading entity under different legal names, only the better-documented one is listed, which is why the visible shortlist is occasionally shorter than the underlying count.
Two different figures circulate on this site for Sweden and they are not interchangeable. The 390 used here counts published company records for the country; pages aimed at the search engines quote a marginally lower figure for companies currently indexable. Both definitions are set out on the data definitions page.
Frequently asked questions
How many pet companies operate in Sweden?
390 companies in this segment are on record for Sweden. Coverage grows as new records pass verification, and drops when a company ceases trading and its record is retired.
Can I contact these companies?
Follow any name in the tables above through to its GlobalPetIndex profile for business type, location and the contact details we hold. 60% of this segment currently has a working website recorded.
Why does a well-known company not appear?
Two reasons, both deliberate. Either its record has not yet cleared verification against an independent source, or it resolves to the same trading entity as another entry filed under a different legal name. We do not pad the list with estimates to fill either gap.
Should I treat the revenue figures as audited accounts?
No. They are figures each company reports publicly or states in its own materials, carried through unchanged. Use them to size a counterparty, not to underwrite one.
How often is this regenerated?
The list rebuilds whenever underlying company records change, so revenue and headcount track the most recent verified data rather than the date this page was first published.
