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 | Environmental permitting authorities (IED/IPPC permits), business registers, trademark/design registries (EUIPO) for patterns and shapes… | Per installation / per legal entity / per registered design | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (SBS), sector associations (Cerame-Unie, British Ceramic Confederation), works councils and unions | Annual per NACE class per region; per-site headcount in company reports | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (Companies House, Bundesanzeiger, Infogreffe), listed-company investor relations, credit bureaus (Bureau van Dijk Orbis… | Annual per legal entity | public |
| incident/safety/claims | National occupational safety regulators (HSE, BG/DGUV), insurers; product safety recalls via EU Safety Gate/RAPEX and CPSC | Per incident / per recall notice | public |
| waste & emissions | Plant operators, environmental regulators (E-PRTR/EU Industrial Emissions Portal, national permit authorities), EU ETS registry for larger… | Annual per facility for pollutant releases and CO2; internal per-batch… | public |
| production output | Manufacturers (e.g. Villeroy & Boch, Fiskars/Iittala, Portmeirion, Porcelanosa-type groups), national statistical offices via PRODCOM… | Per-plant per-shift internally (kiln loads, pieces fired, first-quality yield)… | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Manufacturers' QC labs, notified/testing labs (e.g. LGC, SGS, Eurofins) for food-contact lead & cadmium migration, EU RASFF for… | Per production lot / per test certificate; RASFF per notification | public |
| pricing | Retailers and marketplaces (list prices), price-scraping vendors, manufacturers' trade price lists | Per SKU per retailer, updated daily/weekly | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | E-commerce marketplaces, retailer sites, review aggregators, social platforms | Per review per product SKU | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities and trade data vendors (bills of lading, HS 6911/6912/6913 flows), freight forwarders, Eurostat Comext/UN Comtrade | Per shipment (bill of lading) or monthly by country-product pair | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Brand D2C e-commerce and loyalty programmes, retailer loyalty schemes, consumer panels (Kantar, GfK/NIQ homeware panels) | Per household/panellist purchase occasion; aggregated demographic segments | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Manufacturers' ERP systems, wholesale distributors, retail chains (department stores, homeware retailers), e-commerce marketplaces (Amazon… | Per order line / per SKU per customer; retail POS at per-transaction level | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Manufacturers, distributors, retail buyers; raw material suppliers (kaolin, ball clay, feldspar, glaze/pigment suppliers such as Imerys… | Per SKU per warehouse, weekly/monthly; raw material lots per delivery | partnership |
| energy consumption | Plant operators (kiln gas and electricity metering), energy utilities, EU ETS / national energy-intensive industry reporting, Cerame-Unie… | Per kiln/per site half-hourly internally; annual per installation in regulatory… | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Plant operators and kiln/equipment vendors (Sacmi, Riedhammer, Nabertherm), SCADA/MES suppliers | Per kiln zone temperature/pressure curve, seconds to minutes; per dryer and… | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Plant maintenance teams (CMMS records), kiln refractory and equipment service providers | Per asset per work order; kiln relining cycles | exclusive |
| communications/marketing performance | Brand owners, their agencies, ad platforms (Meta, Google), retail media networks | Per campaign per channel, daily | 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.