Manufacturing companies in Bahia, Brazil

Bahia has 21,602 manufacturing company records in ISIC section C (manufacturing), 21,602 of them active, according to the Receita Federal (CNPJ registry) as of 2026-10-10. That is 3.7% of the section in Brazil and makes Bahia the 8th largest of 27 states for manufacturing. The sector is under-represented here: 4.5% of Bahia's records against 5.4% nationally (location quotient 0.83).

Salvador concentrates 15.1% of the active companies, followed by Feira de Santana (2,039) and Lauro de Freitas (1,029); the three together hold 29.3%. The median active company is 7.8 years old; 9% were registered in the last year and 24% in the last three. In the 12 months to September 2026, 1,654 new manufacturing businesses were registered in Bahia, +3.6% on the previous 12 months (national section C: +7.7%). By ISIC division, 10 (manufacture of food products) is 21.8% of the records and 33 (repair and installation of machinery and equipment) 14.4%. Size is known for 88% of the active companies; 83% of those are micro.

This is the section industrial software, ERP, IIoT, logistics, trade-finance and equipment vendors buy most. Division 10 (food) and 25 (fabricated metal products) are usually the largest; 14 (apparel) and 31 (furniture) add many small workshops; 33 (repair and installation of machinery) inflates the count with small service shops, so filter it out for a pure producer list. Size and employee fields matter here more than anywhere: use them where the registry publishes them.