Walmart suppliers in Northwest Arkansas: how many, and where.
As of July 2026, 759 companies keep a verified office in Northwest Arkansas to serve Walmart and Sam's Club: 441 supplier brands and 318 firms that serve them. 469 are in Bentonville and 181 in Rogers. Every one is confirmed by two independent sources.
How many Walmart suppliers have offices in Northwest Arkansas?
Our count is 759: distinct companies with a physical office in Northwest Arkansas serving the Walmart / Sam's Club business, each confirmed by two independent sources. You will see bigger numbers quoted elsewhere, and they measure different things:
- 1,218 supplier teams — a recruiter's estimate quoted by Reuters in 2007. It counts teams, not companies, and predates two decades of mergers.
- “Over 1,600 Walmart vendors” — the Bentonville Area Chamber, citing a 2022 Business Insider figure. It isn't published with a method or a list.
- 692 Arkansas suppliers — Walmart's own figure (Dun & Bradstreet, fiscal 2025). That counts suppliers based in Arkansas, not the out-of-state brands that keep a sales office here.
Treat 759 as a verified floor, not a ceiling: an office that exists but can't be confirmed by two independent sources isn't in the file. The methodology explains the rule, and the 2026 census breaks the count down further.
By city
Bentonville and Rogers together hold 650 of 759 offices. They differ: Bentonville has many small brand offices close to Walmart's home office, while Rogers has fewer offices but 29 of the region's 54 Walmart-facing teams of ten or more.
Supplier brands by category
The 441 supplier-brand offices, grouped. Categories with 30 or more offices have their own page.
The other 318 offices are the agencies, brokers, logistics, tech, and professional firms whose customers are those brands — see the firms serving Walmart suppliers.
Most supplier offices are tiny
Of the 637 offices with a Walmart-facing team-size signal, 267 (42%) are a single person and 218 more run two or three. That's why HQ-keyed B2B databases miss them: a three-person Bentonville team is filed under its company's headquarters in another state.
Some of the largest
- The Walt Disney Company
- Midea America
- AB InBev
- Samsung Electronics America
- Sony
- PepsiCo
- Cargill
- Mars Petcare
- Mars Wrigley
- Abbott
Five of the largest supplier brands (by global headcount) with offices in Bentonville, and five in Rogers. The full file lists all 441, plus the long tail of regional and emerging brands.
Is there a public list of Walmart suppliers?
Walmart doesn't publish a directory of its suppliers' local offices or the people in them. If you're trying to become a Walmart supplier, start with Walmart's supplier site. This directory is for the other direction: teams that sell to the companies already supplying Walmart.
The full list: all 759 Northwest Arkansas offices.
The Directory ($299) carries every field for each row: company, category, parent, NWA office address and ZIP, typed phone, website, verified role inbox, team-size and headcount-growth signals, and a per-row evidence summary (fill rates are on the data dictionary). The Directory + Decision-Makers file ($899) adds 1,077 named Walmart/Sam's-facing contacts with SMTP-validated work emails.