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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| inventory & supply chain | Tank terminal operators (Vopak, Odfjell), MPOB and Indonesian palm stock reports, USDA WASDE oilseed crush and stocks, NOPA crush reports | Per tank/terminal internally; monthly national ending stocks publicly | public |
| geospatial/movement | AIS providers and satellite analytics firms tracking edible-oil tankers and mill locations; Global Forest Watch / WRI Universal Mill List… | Per vessel position; per mill point location | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | Environmental permitting authorities (EU IED/E-PRTR permits, US EPA/state air permits), food establishment registers, RSPO/ISCC/RTRS… | Per facility/licence, updated on renewal | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (Eurostat SBS, US BLS/QCEW at NAICS 3112), trade unions, company reports | Annual per NACE class per region; headcount per site in company reports | public |
| financial filings | Listed producers (Wilmar, Bunge, ADM, Sime Darby, AAK, Golden Agri), national company registries, credit bureaus (D&B, Orbis) | Quarterly/annual per legal entity, with oilseed/edible-oil segment splits | public |
| incident/safety/claims | OSHA/EU-OSHA and national labour inspectorates, fire and dust-explosion incident databases (CSB), industrial insurers | Per incident/inspection per establishment | public |
| waste & emissions | E-PRTR / national PRTRs, US EPA TRI and GHGRP, company sustainability reports (CDP), palm mill effluent (POME) monitoring by operators | Annual per facility per pollutant; continuous effluent monitoring internally | public |
| production output | Crushers and refiners (Bunge, Cargill, ADM, Wilmar, Sime Darby), national statistics offices, USDA FAS, FEDIOL, MPOB, GAPKI, Eurostat… | Per plant per shift/day internally; monthly or annual national/regional… | public |
| pricing | Price reporting agencies (Argus, Fastmarkets/Palm Oil Analytics, S&P Global Platts, MPOB, Bursa Malaysia and CBOT/Euronext exchanges for… | Daily quotes per grade/origin/delivery basis; weekly and monthly averages | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | Retail e-commerce platforms and review aggregators for consumer cooking oils/spreads; NGO campaign monitoring on palm oil sourcing | Per product review; per brand mention over time | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities (Eurostat Comext, UN Comtrade, Indian DGCIS), vessel-tracking and cargo-flow vendors (Kpler, Refinitiv, ImportGenius)… | Per shipment/bill of lading; per vessel voyage; monthly HS-code trade aggregates | purchasable |
| weather-dependent metrics | Meteorological agencies and agri-analytics vendors (Gro Intelligence, Vaisala, DTN) modelling oilseed and palm yields; crush margin… | Daily gridded weather; seasonal yield forecasts per growing region | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Retail scanner and consumption panel vendors (NielsenIQ, Circana, Kantar) for bottled oils, margarine and spreads | Weekly per SKU per retail channel/region; household panel level | purchasable |
| energy consumption | Plant operators and their utilities; national energy statistics for food-industry sub-sectors (Eurostat, EIA MECS); ISO 50001 audit reports | Per site metered hourly/daily internally; sector-level annual aggregates… | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Consumer brand owners (Unilever, Upfield, Bunge Loders) and their media agencies; ad-tracking vendors (Nielsen Ad Intel) | Per campaign per market per period | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | In-house QC labs, third-party inspectors (SGS, Bureau Veritas, Intertek), food safety regulators (EFSA, FDA), RSPO/ISCC certification bodies | Per batch/lot certificate of analysis; per audit | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Crushers/refiners and their trading arms, bulk liquid brokers, food-manufacturer buyers | Per contract/cargo/tanker load | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Refinery/crushing plant DCS-SCADA and historian systems (AVEVA PI, Siemens, Honeywell), equipment vendors (Alfa Laval, Desmet, GEA) with… | Per tag per second/minute (temperature, pressure, flow, deodoriser vacuum) | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Operators' CMMS/EAM systems, equipment OEM service arms, insurance engineering surveyors | Per asset per work order/inspection | 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.