Independent service. Data from the Austrian company register.

ÖNACE 47: Retail trade

Section: Wholesale and retail trade. Assignment by Statistics Austria under ÖNACE 2025, not from the register.

Statistics Austria assigns 32,705 active companies in the register to ÖNACE division 47: Retail trade (as of 5 Nov 2026).

7,453 of them have a company page on firmenbuchdaten.at. The shares below refer to these 7,453.

Most have their seat in: Vienna 28 %, Lower Austria 17 %, Upper Austria 14 %.

Most common legal forms: GmbH 94 %, KG 4 %, FlexCo 1 %.

Places with the most companies: Wien (2,101), Salzburg (251), Graz (202), Linz (161), Innsbruck (142).

7,261 have filed annual accounts with a size class, 242 of them as medium-sized or large.

The largest class is 47.81-0 Retail sale of motor vehicles with 2,788 companies.

Largest classes

  • 47.81-0 Retail sale of motor vehicles: 2,788
  • 47.11-0 Non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco: 2,745
  • 47.12-0 Other non-specialised retail sale: 2,609
  • 47.52-0 Retail sale of hardware, building materials, paints and glass: 2,474
  • 47.71-0 Retail sale of clothing: 2,400

Retail trade: companies, larger first

Datenquelle: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (Statistics Austria), register number to ÖNACE assignment, CC BY 4.0, as of 5 Nov 2026. Source: Austrian company register (Firmenbuch), Republic of Austria, represented by the BMJ, open data under CC BY 4.0.