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 safety authorities (EU RASFF/TRACES approved establishment lists, FDA/state dairy plant registries, UK FSA approved food… | Per establishment / approval number | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (SBS, labour force survey at NACE 10.5 level), manufacturers' HR systems, temp-labour agencies serving… | Monthly headcount per plant; annual aggregate per NACE class | public |
| logistics & freight movement | Frozen-food hauliers and cold-chain 3PLs, manufacturers' TMS, customs/trade statistics agencies (HS 2105 ice cream trade flows via Eurostat… | Per shipment/load; monthly per country-pair for trade stats | public |
| financial filings | Company registrars (Companies House, EU business registers), listed parents (Unilever, Froneri/Nestlé, General Mills), credit bureaus… | Annual per legal entity; quarterly segment for listed groups | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Food safety regulators' recall and alert systems (RASFF, FDA recalls, FSA alerts — Listeria in ice cream is a recurring cause)… | Per recall/incident event | public |
| waste & emissions | Environmental regulators (E-PRTR, IED permits for larger dairy/ice-cream plants), packaging EPR schemes (refrigerant HFC reporting under… | Annual per site; annual per corporate group | public |
| production output | National statistical offices (PRODCOM code 10.52.10 volumes/values), dairy boards (IDFA, EDA, AMI), manufacturers' MES | Annual/quarterly national by PRODCOM code; per line per shift internally | public |
| transactional/sales | Ice cream manufacturers' ERP systems; retail scanner-data vendors (NielsenIQ, Circana/IRI, SymphonyAI); grocery retailer loyalty… | Per transaction / SKU-store-week for scanner panels | purchasable |
| pricing | Retail price-scraping vendors (Assosia, Profitero, Trax), national statistical offices (CPI/PPI series for ice cream), manufacturers'… | Per SKU per retailer per week; monthly national index | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | Retailer product review pages, Amazon/Ocado listings, social platforms, review-aggregation vendors (Bazaarvoice, Brandwatch) | Per review / per post | purchasable |
| weather-dependent metrics | Manufacturers' demand-planning teams pairing sell-out with met-office data; weather-analytics vendors (Planalytics, DTN); national met… | Daily temperature vs daily/weekly regional sales | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Retailer loyalty-data arms (dunnhumby/Tesco Clubcard, Kroger 84.51°), consumer panels (Kantar Worldpanel, NIQ Homescan) | Per household per purchase occasion; aggregated demographic segments | purchasable |
| communications/marketing performance | Brand owners' marketing teams, ad-spend monitors (Nielsen Ad Intel, Kantar Media), retail media networks | Per campaign per channel per week | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Manufacturers' ERP/WMS, cold-storage 3PL operators (Lineage, Americold, NewCold), dairy ingredient suppliers | Per pallet/lot per warehouse, daily stock positions | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Plant operators (freezer tunnels, hardening rooms, pasteurisers, homogenisers), cold-chain telematics vendors (Carrier Sensitech… | Per sensor per minute; per shipment temperature trace; per cabinet | partnership |
| energy consumption | Plant operators (refrigeration is the dominant load), utilities, EU ETS/energy-audit filings for larger sites, national energy-in-industry… | Half-hourly meter data per site; annual per site in disclosures | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Plant QA labs (microbiological, overrun, fat/solids content), third-party accredited labs (Eurofins, SGS), official food control… | Per batch/lot sample; annual aggregate for official sampling reports | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Plant maintenance CMMS (SAP PM, Maximo), OEMs of freezing/filling equipment (Tetra Pak, GEA, Gram, Technogel) with service contracts | Per asset per work order | 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.