Farm product warehousing and storage
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating farm product warehousing and storage facilities, except refrigerated. Grain elevators primarily engaged in storage are included. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A
- Establishments · CanadaA
- 199
- Under 10 employeesA
- 63%
- Establishments · USA
- 774
- Employment · USA
- 7,884
- Payroll · USA
- $449M
Size and shape
How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.
Canadian establishments by number of employeesA
Of 199 Canadian establishments with employees, 63% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.
Where they areA
Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.
Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.
How businesses here compete
The structural profile of subsector 493, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.
A real-estate business with a labour operation inside it. Third-party logistics is entered through a specialty — cold, hazmat, e-commerce fulfilment.
- Who sets the price
- Industrial rents and contract logistics bids.
- The software it runs on
- Warehouse management systems.
Market screens and studies
Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.
Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 4931 Warehousing and storage covers it.
Software serving this industry
The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.
Sold across the wider branch
A WMS runs the physical building — mis-picks, mis-ships and downtime are immediate and expensive, so buyers select on reference and integrator depth rather than on price or interface. Implementation runs through system integrators, the same distribution problem that cut the MES record at 333. The top five hold only 25–30%, but the tail is regional integrators rather than a soft middle.
This sits between the ERP suite above it and the warehouse system below it, both of which keep extending into it — and the pure-plays are leaving rather than winning. Two of the largest independents stopped reporting inside three years. E2open shrank in each of its last three published years — $652.2M for the year to February 2023, $634.6M to February 2024, $607.7M to February 2025 — and was taken private by WiseTech Global, the merger closing 2025-08-03 with delisting the next day and Form 15 on 2025-08-14 [A]. Coupa, which had bought LLamasoft to get network design, last published $725.3M for the year to January 2022 before Thoma Bravo took it out; Form 25 on 2023-02-28, Form 15 on 2023-03-10 [A]. The strongest anchor still filing is Manhattan Associates: FY2025 revenue $1.0814B, cloud subscriptions $408.1M growing 21% — but services down 4%, maintenance down 6% and licence revenue down to $14.8M [A]. Manhattan reports three geographic segments and nothing else, so even the best-documented company in the field publishes no planning line, and neither does SAP for IBP nor Oracle for Fusion SCM. That absence is itself the finding: this capability is sold as a module of something larger by incumbents who can afford to bundle it, and standalone by companies that have twice now been bought rather than scaled. An entrant is not displacing a weak incumbent — it is asking a buyer to run planning outside the suite that already ships it, which is a harder sale than being better. The 493 anchor is navigational: warehousing is where the inventory physically sits, not where this software is bought.
And what every business buys · 25 generic categories
Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.
Who works here
The occupations employed in Transportation and warehousing, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.
Concentrated in this sectorA
These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.
And the jobs every business has
Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.
Inside this industry
1 row sits directly beneath 49313. Each has a base report of its own.
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 493130 | Farm product warehousing and storage | 199 | screened at 4931 |
Alongside it, under 4931 Warehousing and storage
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49311 | General warehousing and storage | 1,726 | screened at 4931 |
| 49312 | Refrigerated warehousing and storage | 269 | screened at 4931 |
| 49319 | Other warehousing and storage | 753 | screened at 4931 |