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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | ICE Futures (arabica/robusta contracts), ICO indicator prices, Mombasa/Colombo tea auction operators, FAO/World Bank commodity series… | Daily contract settlement; per-auction lot; monthly average retail price per… | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | Food business establishment registers (national competent authorities, FDA food facility registration), organic/Fairtrade/Rainforest… | Per facility / per certificate holder | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (SBS, labour force surveys) at NACE 10.83 level; individual employers' HR systems | Annual headcount and wages by class and region; per-site headcount internally | public |
| financial filings | Listed processors (Nestlé, JDE Peet's, Keurig Dr Pepper, Tata Consumer, Strauss) via exchanges; national business registers for private… | Quarterly/annual per legal entity; segment-level revenue and volume | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Food safety regulators via recall registers (RASFF, FSA, FDA/USDA recalls), occupational safety authorities (OSHA, national inspectorates)… | Per recall notice; per workplace incident per site | public |
| waste & emissions | EU ETS and E-PRTR registries, corporate sustainability/CSRD reports, spent-grounds and tea-waste valorisation partners | Per installation annual; corporate-level Scope 1/2/3 per year | public |
| production output | Processing plants; national statistics offices (PRODCOM, EU/Eurostat; USDA/Census); ICO and FAOSTAT for roasted/soluble coffee and… | Per line per shift internally; annual/quarterly tonnage by product class… | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Company QA labs and cupping panels, third-party labs (SGS, Eurofins, Intertek), regulators via EU RASFF, FDA import refusals, EFSA/JECFA… | Per lot/sample; per notification per consignment for regulator feeds | public |
| transactional/sales | Roasters and tea packers (e.g. JDE Peet's, Nestlé, Lavazza, Unilever tea), their retail customers, and retail-scanner vendors (NielsenIQ… | Per SKU per retail chain per week; internal order-line per customer | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | E-commerce platforms (Amazon, retailer sites), coffee review sites and specialty communities, social listening vendors (Brandwatch… | Per product review; per post/mention | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities and trade-data resellers (Panjiva/S&P, ImportGenius, Descartes Datamyne), ocean carriers and freight forwarders | Per bill of lading / per shipment; monthly HS-code trade aggregates (0901… | purchasable |
| weather-dependent metrics | Meteorological agencies and commodity weather vendors (Maxar, Vaisala, Gro Intelligence) covering Brazil, Vietnam, Kenya, India origins… | Daily gridded rainfall/temperature per producing region; seasonal crop forecasts | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Consumer panel vendors (Kantar Worldpanel, NielsenIQ Homescan, YouGov), brand loyalty programmes and D2C subscription roasters | Per household purchase occasion; aggregated buyer profiles by brand | purchasable |
| communications/marketing performance | Brand owners, their media agencies, ad-intelligence vendors (Nielsen Ad Intel, Kantar), retail media networks | Per campaign per channel; monthly ad spend by brand | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Certified exchange warehouses (ICE certified stocks), green coffee importers/traders (Neumann, Volcafe, Olam), roaster ERP systems | Weekly certified stocks by warehouse/origin; per-lot green coffee inventory… | partnership |
| geospatial/movement | EUDR-driven traceability platforms and certifiers holding origin plot polygons, cooperatives, traceability vendors (Enveritas, Farmforce… | Per farm plot polygon linked to lot; per shipment chain-of-custody | partnership |
| energy consumption | Plant operators, energy utilities, EU ETS registry for larger roasting/instant-coffee installations, national industrial energy surveys | Per-site annual (ETS verified emissions/fuel); half-hourly metering internally | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Roasting equipment makers and their cloud platforms (Probat, Loring, Bühler), plant SCADA/MES at instant-coffee and tea-blending sites | Per-batch roast profile, second-level bean/exhaust temperature; per-line… | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Plant engineering teams and OEM service organisations (roaster, packaging-line, freeze-dryer suppliers) via CMMS | Per asset per work order; downtime events per line | 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.