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 business registers and chambers of commerce; municipal trade licences; permits for storing hazardous goods (paints, solvents, gas… | per legal entity and per site | public |
| employment & workforce | Retail chains' HR systems; national statistical offices and labour force surveys; retail trade unions and sector wage-agreement bodies | per employee/shift internally; monthly or annual headcount by NACE class and… | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (Companies House, Bundesanzeiger, etc.), listed DIY retailers' annual and quarterly reports, credit bureaus… | per legal entity, annual/quarterly | public |
| incident/safety/claims | National occupational safety authorities (HSE, BG Handel und Warendistribution); retailers' insurers for slip/fall and forklift incidents… | per incident/per recall notice; aggregated injury rates annually by sector | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Notified bodies and testing labs for CE-marked construction products (DoP declarations); REACH/CLP compliance dossiers for paints and… | per product/batch declaration; per surveillance inspection | public |
| transactional/sales | DIY/builders' merchant chains (Home Depot, Kingfisher/B&Q, Bauhaus, Hornbach), their POS and loyalty systems; buying groups and… | per transaction line (SKU, store, timestamp); aggregated to weekly per-store or… | purchasable |
| pricing | Retailers' own price files and e-commerce sites; price-scraping/comparison vendors (Idealo, Google Shopping, Profitero, Skuuudle); national… | per SKU per store/website per day; index series monthly national | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Mobile location panel vendors (Placer.ai, Unacast, SafeGraph-type providers); retailers' store locator files; POI datasets (OSM, HERE) | per store POI; visit counts daily/weekly, trade-area origin polygons | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | Google Maps/Business Profiles, Trustpilot, Yelp, retailer product-review platforms (Bazaarvoice, Trustedshops) | per review (store or product level), timestamped | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Retail chain ERP/WMS systems; wholesale suppliers and manufacturers of cement, timber, paint; distribution centre operators; some chains… | per SKU per store/DC, daily or near-real-time | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Store operators' footfall counters (ShopperTrak, Xovis), electronic shelf labels, refrigeration/HVAC and paint-tinting machine telemetry… | per sensor, sub-hourly per store | partnership |
| energy consumption | Store operators' utility accounts and BMS; energy suppliers; EU EPB certificate registers for retail buildings; corporate CSRD/ESG reports | per site metered (hourly/monthly); annual aggregate in sustainability reports | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Retailers' DC-to-store transport management systems; 3PL and haulage contractors; home-delivery/bulk-materials carriers | per shipment/delivery route, daily | partnership |
| weather-dependent metrics | Retail demand-planning teams pairing POS with weather feeds; weather analytics vendors (DTN, Meteogroup, Planalytics) serving DIY/garden… | daily per store catchment, joined to category sales | partnership |
| waste & emissions | Extended producer responsibility schemes for packaging and paint/hazardous waste take-back; waste contractors serving stores; corporate ESG… | per site waste collection tonnage; annual EPR declarations per entity | partnership |
| customer demographics | Retailer loyalty/trade-account programmes (pro contractor accounts); catchment-area demographic vendors (Experian Mosaic, Acxiom, Nielsen) | per loyalty member or per store catchment area | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Retail media / e-commerce teams, ad platforms (Google, Meta), leaflet and catalogue distribution firms, retail-media networks of large DIY… | per campaign/keyword/day; leaflet drop per postcode | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Facility-management contractors for store fit-out, forklifts, timber-cutting saws and paint-mixing machines; equipment vendors' service… | per asset, 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.