What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | Food establishment approval registers (EU Section approved establishments lists, FDA facility registration), IED/IPPC industrial permit… | Per establishment/site, updated as issued | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (SBS/labour force surveys by NACE class), plants' HR systems, seasonal-labour agencies, unions and works… | Annual headcount and wage bill per NACE class and region; per-shift staffing… | public |
| energy consumption | Processing plants (high steam, frying, freezing load), utilities, EU ETS registry and national energy-efficiency reporting schemes for… | Half-hourly meter data per site internally; annual site-level fuel and… | public |
| financial filings | Listed processors (Lamb Weston, Aviko/Royal Cosun, Agristo, Greenyard), national company registers (Companies House, KVK, BEL-first)… | Quarterly/annual per legal entity, sometimes with segment revenue and capex | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Occupational safety regulators (OSHA, HSE, national inspectorates), insurers, product recall databases (RASFF, FSIS/FDA recalls) | Per incident/inspection per site; per recall event with lot codes | public |
| weather-dependent metrics | Meteorological agencies, agronomy services of processors, crop monitoring programmes (JRC MARS, Copernicus), grower agronomy platforms | Daily gridded weather and seasonal yield/quality forecasts per growing region | public |
| waste & emissions | Plant environmental managers, environmental regulators (E-PRTR/EEA industrial emissions portal, Environment Agency, state DEQs), wastewater… | Annual per-facility pollutant releases and waste transfers publicly; daily… | public |
| production output | Potato processors (McCain, Lamb Weston, Aviko, Farm Frites), national statistical offices (Eurostat PRODCOM, USDA NASS), trade bodies… | Per line/shift per plant internally; monthly or annual tonnage by product… | public |
| transactional/sales | Processors' ERP/SAP order books, foodservice distributors (Sysco, Bidfood), retail scanner data vendors (NielsenIQ, Circana, IRI) | Per invoice/shipment internally; per SKU per store per week in scanner panels | purchasable |
| pricing | Processors' contract desks with grower cooperatives, potato exchanges (e.g. Belgian Belgapom/PotatoNL free-buy quotations), USDA AMS… | Weekly contract and free-market €/tonne by variety and region; per-SKU retail… | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | Retail e-commerce sites and review platforms for branded retail products (McCain, private label), social listening vendors… | Per review/post, aggregated per brand and SKU | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Processors' transport planning, reefer/frozen hauliers, customs and trade statistics agencies (Eurostat Comext, UN Comtrade)… | Per shipment/container with HS codes (0710.10, 2004.10, 2005.20, 1105); monthly… | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Retail loyalty-card operators and panel providers (Kantar Worldpanel, NielsenIQ Homescan) covering frozen chips/crisps buyers | Per household panellist purchase occasion, aggregated by demographic segment | purchasable |
| communications/marketing performance | Branded processors' marketing teams, media monitoring vendors (Nielsen Ad Intel, Kantar), retail trade-promotion records | Per campaign per market; weekly promotion depth and share-of-shelf per retailer | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Processors' cold-store systems, third-party frozen warehousing operators, grower storage co-ops, national potato boards (e.g. AHDB, NEPG… | Per-lot in store, daily plant stocks internally; monthly/quarterly aggregate… | partnership |
| geospatial/movement | Processors' field-contract agronomy GIS, paying agencies' parcel registers (LPIS/IACS), satellite crop-mapping vendors | Per contracted field/parcel per season, with variety and planting/lifting dates | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Processors' QA labs, third-party labs (Eurofins, SGS), national food safety authorities (FSA, BVL, FDA), RASFF/EU rapid alert system… | Per lot/batch (dry matter, reducing sugars, acrylamide, defects, pesticide… | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Processors' plant SCADA/MES, optical sorter vendors (TOMRA, Key Technology), fryer and dryer OEMs (Heat and Control, Kiremko), storage… | Sub-second to per-minute tags per line: fryer oil temperature, blancher, sorter… | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Plant CMMS systems (SAP PM, Maximo), equipment OEM service organisations for fryers, peelers and freezers | Per work order per asset; OEE and downtime per line per shift | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.