How to Open Up a Bakery Wholesale Business in Dubai With Meydan Free Zone
November 28, 2025
November 28, 2025
Dubai isn’t just a city that loves eating out; it’s a city where breakfast buffets, supermarket shelves, and cafés never get a break. The UAE’s bakery goods market is projected to reach $966.7 million by 2027, and every bite sold at cafés, supermarkets, and food chains starts with suppliers who bake for them in bulk. And with Dubai being home to over 13,000 restaurants and welcoming over 5.31 million guests overnight in early 2025, the demand for reliable wholesale bakery suppliers keeps growing faster than it’s being met.
Whether it’s artisanal loaves for luxury hotel brunches, frozen doughnuts cafés put out fresh every morning, or burger buns packed for fast-growing restaurant chains, wholesale bakeries are the hidden backbone of Dubai’s food scene.
Once you get your wholesale bakery business license and start supplying in batches, you don’t rely on walk-in customers; you build long-term contracts with the very brands that feed Dubai.
Wholesale of Bakery Products - 4630.08
Wholesale of Bakery Products involves distributing baked goods in bulk to other businesses, rather than selling them individually to consumers. This covers the large-scale supply of bakery products such as breads, buns, rolls, pastries, cookies, bagels, and similar goods to supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, cafés, retail bakeries, and catering companies.
You can source, stock, and distribute bakery products that may be fresh, frozen, semi-baked, imported, or locally produced. This could also involve bottling and labelling as a part of the distribution process.
This business activity is ideal for entrepreneurs who want to scale through high-volume B2B supply and build consistent relationships with the brands that fuel Dubai’s food economy.
That could mean supplying frozen Danish pastries to cafés that bake fresh each morning, delivering artisanal sourdough and keto loaves to hotel brunches, importing specialty cookies and glazed doughnuts for trendy cafés, or even distributing quiches and savoury bakes to catering companies.
But remember, with this business activity, you can’t engage in the blending of wine or distilled spirits.
Third-Party Approval:
No third-party approval is required for this activity.
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance:
Business activity 4630.08 is exempt from this requirement.
