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 food safety authorities and local environmental health departments (food business establishment registration/approval lists)… | Per establishment/site, per operator; per consignment for TRACES | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices and labour surveys (SBS, LFS), company annual reports, job-board scrapes, trade unions | Company-level headcount in filings; NACE-class aggregates by region… | public |
| reviews & sentiment | B2B review sites and Google reviews of cash-and-carry depots, trade press, employee review sites (Glassdoor, Indeed) | Per review per site/company | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (Companies House, Handelsregister, etc.), credit bureaus (Creditsafe, Dun & Bradstreet, Bureau van Dijk Orbis) | Per legal entity, annual accounts; credit scores updated monthly | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Food safety regulators (EU RASFF, FSA/FDA recall notices), wholesalers' QA departments, insurers, occupational safety regulators (warehouse… | Per recall/notification event with product, batch and distributor; per… | public |
| waste & emissions | Large wholesalers' CSRD/ESG sustainability reports, food-waste reduction programmes (WRAP Courtauld), waste contractors | Annual company-level tonnage and Scope 1/2/3 CO2e; some per-depot | public |
| production output | National statistical offices (structural business statistics, wholesale turnover indices for food), trade associations of food wholesalers | Monthly/quarterly turnover and volume index by NACE class and country | public |
| pricing | Wholesalers' price lists and trading terms; commodity price reporting agencies (Mintec, Expana/Urner Barry, USDA AMS, EU Milk/Agri Market… | Per SKU per customer tier (contract), daily/weekly commodity quotes, monthly… | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Customs authorities and trade statistics (Eurostat Comext, UN Comtrade), port and bill-of-lading data vendors (Panjiva, ImportGenius… | Per shipment/bill of lading; monthly product-country trade flows | purchasable |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Cold-storage and public warehouse operators, 3PLs; industry surveys (GCCA cold storage capacity report) | Per facility pallet-position occupancy, monthly; national capacity aggregates | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Food wholesalers/distributors (e.g. cash-and-carry, foodservice distributors), their ERP/WMS vendors, buying groups and symbol-group head… | Per invoice line (customer, SKU, quantity, price, date); aggregated… | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Wholesaler WMS/ERP systems, third-party logistics providers, supplier VMI portals, EDI/GS1 data pools (GDSN item master data) | Per SKU per depot per day (stock on hand, cover, out-of-stock, batch/lot) | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Cold-chain operators and wholesalers of chilled/frozen foods; telematics and temperature-logger vendors (Sensitech, Emerson, Carrier… | Per cold store zone / per reefer vehicle, readings every few minutes | partnership |
| geospatial/movement | Fleet telematics providers, wholesalers' route-planning systems (Paragon, Descartes), depot location registries and company websites | Per vehicle per second/minute GPS trace; depot locations point data | partnership |
| energy consumption | Wholesalers operating cold stores (energy management systems), utilities, energy performance certificate registers for warehouses | Per site half-hourly meter data; annual company total in ESG reports | partnership |
| customer demographics | Wholesalers' CRM and trade-card systems (cash-and-carry membership data), buying groups; enriched by B2B data vendors listing restaurants… | Per customer account (channel, cuisine type, size, location), monthly spend… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Third-party certification bodies and auditors (BRCGS, IFS Logistics, FSSC 22000), accredited labs, wholesalers' own QA records, customs… | Per site audit (score, non-conformities), per lot/sample test result | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Wholesalers' fleet and refrigeration maintenance systems, CMMS vendors, refrigeration service contractors (including F-gas leak-check logs… | Per asset (vehicle, chiller, forklift) per service event | 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.