TL;DR: FirmTrove holds 164,715 companies in Rotterdam, 3.9% of all records and rank 3 among the large cities. 29.2% have a website. Staffing and recruitment agencies is 1.3× as strongly represented as nationally.
Key numbers
Rotterdam has 164,715 company records. At 29.2%, the share with a website is below the national 34.6%. Within South Holland 19.7% of all companies operating there are based in Rotterdam.
Sectors in this city
Per sector the number of companies in Rotterdam and what part of that sector nationally sits here. The last column compares that with Rotterdam’s share of all records: above 1 means the sector is stronger here than average. Strongest is staffing and recruitment agencies (1.3×), weakest landscapers and garden centres (0.2×).
| Sector | In Rotterdam | Share of national | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 2,022 | 3.3% | 0.8× |
| Business, financial and legal advice | 1,594 | 4.1% | 1.0× |
| Hair, beauty and wellness | 1,496 | 2.9% | 0.7× |
| Education and childcare | 1,271 | 3.3% | 0.9× |
| Healthcare and allied practices | 1,267 | 2.9% | 0.7× |
| Automotive: garages and car dealers | 963 | 1.9% | 0.5× |
| Marketing, advertising and design | 806 | 4.4% | 1.1× |
| Sports and fitness | 704 | 2.7% | 0.7× |
| Software & IT | 609 | 3.8% | 1.0× |
| Construction and contractors | 573 | 1.7% | 0.4× |
| Transport and logistics | 412 | 4.3% | 1.1× |
| Real estate and agents | 385 | 3.6% | 0.9× |
| Staffing and recruitment agencies | 309 | 5.2% | 1.3× |
| Manufacturing and wholesale | 244 | 2% | 0.5× |
| Installation businesses | 61 | 1.7% | 0.4× |
| Landscapers and garden centres | 48 | 0.8% | 0.2× |
What kind of companies
The most common source categories in Rotterdam. Each row opens the explorer with that category and the city filled in.
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| information technology and services | 1,097 |
| Business and Professional Services > Office | 1,024 |
| marketing and advertising | 1,008 |
| retail | 867 |
| management consulting | 834 |
| professional services | 677 |
| design | 644 |
| internet | 639 |
| restaurant | 620 |
| automotive repair | 609 |
| architecture & planning | 602 |
| real estate | 599 |
How to build this selection
Open the explorer with Rotterdam as the search term already filled in, refine by city, postcode or category and export the companies you need as CSV. Free has 100 rows per UTC calendar month. Pro: €29 a month excluding VAT. Start with 5,000 rows, adding 2,500 each consecutive paid month, up to 25,000 per calendar month. Pro Year: €290 excluding VAT paid upfront, with 25,000 per calendar month from day one. CSV, REST and MCP share one allowance. Every CSV row counts; a company ID delivered through REST or MCP counts once per UTC calendar month. Pro exports allow at most 5,000 rows.
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What these numbers are, and are not
Every count is an observed record in the FirmTrove database: companies that are not merged, purged or retired. It is not a census of all Dutch companies and not the trade register. The province is the derived operating region based on city or postcode; a company without that derivation is not on a province page. Categories are the literal labels the sources supply, so one company can appear under several. Cells below 25 records are not published.
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