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 | Business registers, VAT/EORI registries, chambers of commerce; for some goods (chemicals, cosmetics, pressure appliances) sector… | Per legal entity / per establishment | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices and social-security bodies (structural business statistics by NACE), individual distributors' HR systems | Annual per enterprise in SBS; headcount and payroll per site internally | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Online marketplaces and retail sites where the wholesaled goods end up, employer review sites, Google/Trustpilot reviews of distributors | Per review per product/company | public |
| energy consumption | Warehouse operators and landlords, utility suppliers, building energy certificate registers (EPC/EPBD databases) | Per meter monthly; per building for certificates | public |
| financial filings | National business registers (Companies House, Handelsregister, KvK), statistical offices' trade/turnover surveys, credit bureaus (Dun &… | Annual per legal entity; monthly/quarterly turnover indices at NACE-class… | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Product safety authorities (EU Safety Gate/RAPEX recalls), notified bodies and testing labs (SGS, TÜV, Intertek), importers' technical… | Per product model / per test report / per recall notice | public |
| pricing | Distributor price lists and trade catalogues, buying groups, retail price-monitoring vendors, marketplace scrapers (Amazon Business, eBay… | Per SKU per price list version; per SKU per day for online listings | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Freight forwarders, parcel and pallet networks, customs authorities (import declarations), bill-of-lading data vendors (Panjiva… | Per shipment / per container / per bill of lading | purchasable |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | 3PL and warehouse operators, industrial real-estate agents tracking warehouse take-up and vacancy | Per warehouse: pallet positions used, monthly; market-level vacancy quarterly | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Wholesale distributors' ERP systems (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor), B2B e-commerce platforms, EDI service providers (order/invoice flows… | Per order line / per invoice, per customer account and SKU | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Wholesalers' WMS/ERP, third-party logistics providers operating their warehouses, buying/purchasing groups | Per SKU per warehouse, daily stock-on-hand and open POs | partnership |
| geospatial/movement | Telematics providers for delivery fleets, GPS/fleet-management vendors, distributors' own delivery routing systems | Per vehicle per trip / per GPS ping | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Warehouse operators' EHS systems, national labour inspectorates, cargo and liability insurers | Per incident / per claim; aggregated per site annually | partnership |
| waste & emissions | Packaging-waste compliance schemes (EPR registers, Green Dot organisations), waste contractors, distributors' CSRD/ESG reporting | Annual packaging tonnage per obliged company; per waste collection | partnership |
| customer demographics | Wholesalers' CRM and account master data, trade credit insurers, B2B data vendors profiling retail customer base | Per customer account (retailer type, size, region) | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Distributors' trade-marketing teams, B2B e-commerce platforms, trade-fair organisers (lead data), ad platforms | Per campaign / per catalogue drop / per web session | 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.