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 | National plant protection organisations (NVWA, APHIS, Defra) issuing phytosanitary certificates and plant passport operator registrations… | Per registered operator; per certificate/consignment | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (structural business statistics for NACE 46.22), sector pension/collective labour bodies, temp-labour agencies… | Annual aggregate per NACE class per region; per-firm headcount in filings | public |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities and trade statistics agencies (Eurostat Comext, UN Comtrade HS 0603/0602), airlines and air cargo capacity data… | Per HS code per origin-destination per month; per airwaybill/shipment at vendor… | public |
| weather-dependent metrics | National meteorological services; wholesalers' own demand-planning teams correlating temperature with garden-plant offtake; growers'… | Daily per region, matched to daily sales volumes | public |
| production output | Grower associations and statistics agencies (CBS, Eurostat crop statistics), auction supply registrations by product and grower | Annual/seasonal area and volume per crop per country; per-grower weekly supply… | public |
| pricing | Auction clocks (Royal FloraHolland daily price statistics), price index publishers (VBN/Floricode, Union Fleurs), trade press, national… | Per lot / per stem or per pot, daily average price per product code; monthly… | purchasable |
| financial filings | Company registers (Dutch KVK, Companies House), credit bureaus (Graydon, Creditsafe, Dun & Bradstreet), auction cooperatives publishing… | Annual per legal entity | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Flower auction cooperatives (Royal FloraHolland, Plantion, Landgard), wholesale traders' ERP/Floricode-based trade platforms (Floriday)… | Per auction lot / per clock transaction; aggregated to daily and weekly… | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Wholesalers' ERP and warehouse systems, grower-wholesaler platforms (Floriday supply catalogues), Danish trolley/CC container pooling… | Per SKU per day per depot; per trolley/load carrier | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Cold-chain logistics providers and wholesalers operating conditioned warehouses and reefer trucks; container telematics vendors… | Per shipment / per reefer unit, readings at minute-to-hourly intervals | partnership |
| geospatial/movement | Freight forwarders and airfreight consolidators moving cut flowers (Nairobi/Bogotá/Quito to Amsterdam/Miami), trolley pooling operators… | Per shipment leg / per vehicle GPS ping; per load carrier scan event | partnership |
| energy consumption | Wholesalers operating refrigerated distribution centres; energy suppliers and grid operators; national energy statistics by sector | Per site metered (15-min/monthly); annual sector aggregate | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Auction cooperatives allocating clock slots and cold-store space, airfreight capacity brokers booking flower space on passenger/freighter… | Per booking/slot per day; per flight per route | partnership |
| waste & emissions | Certification schemes (MPS-ABC environmental registration), wholesalers reporting under CSRD, waste processors handling unsold floral stock… | Per participating firm per registration period; annual per entity | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Auction quality inspection services (Royal FloraHolland KCB/Kwaliteitscontrole), border inspection posts sampling consignments for pests… | Per inspected consignment/lot; per certified grower per audit cycle | partnership |
| customer demographics | Wholesalers' CRM systems segmenting florists, garden centres and retail chains; cash-and-carry membership cards | Per buyer account, with purchase history | 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.