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 (company registration with NACE 47.69), municipal trading/market-stall licences… | Per legal entity / per establishment / per permit | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices and Eurostat (SBS, LFS), social-security administrations, retail-sector trade unions and employer associations | Annual per NACE class per region; per-establishment headcount in structural… | public |
| financial filings | National company registries (Companies House, Handelsregister, INPI), listed specialty retailers' investor relations, credit-rating… | Annual (some quarterly) per legal entity | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Product-safety regulators (EU Safety Gate/RAPEX, CPSC recalls), commercial insurers for retail theft and fire, police crime statistics on… | Per recall notice/product; per claim; monthly crime counts by area | public |
| waste & emissions | Extended-producer-responsibility and packaging compliance schemes, municipal commercial waste contractors, larger retailers' CSRD/ESG… | Annual tonnages per company; per collection for waste contractors | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Notified bodies and test labs (TÜV, SGS, Intertek) for toy-safety EN 71 and CE/UKCA conformity, authentication and grading services for… | Per product model / per graded item certificate | public |
| pricing | Retailers' own price files, e-commerce sites and marketplaces, price-comparison and scraping vendors (Idealo, Keepa, DataWeave)… | Per SKU/item per seller, updated daily or per listing/sale | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Mapping and POI vendors (Google, HERE, SafeGraph/Advan, Foursquare), mobile-location analytics firms, shopping-centre landlords with… | Per store location; hourly/daily visit counts and catchment origin | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | Google Maps/Business Profiles, Trustpilot, Yelp, marketplace seller-feedback systems (eBay, Etsy), collector community forums and social… | Per review per store or per seller, timestamped | purchasable |
| logistics & freight movement | Parcel carriers (DHL, UPS, DPD), 3PLs serving e-commerce retailers, customs authorities publishing HS-code trade statistics for toys… | Per shipment/parcel; monthly HS-code by country for trade flows | purchasable |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Commercial property landlords and retail-property agents (Cushman & Wakefield, CBRE, Local Data Company), shopping-centre operators | Per retail unit: lease terms, occupancy/vacancy status, updated monthly or… | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Specialist retail chains (hobby, craft, collectibles, souvenir, art supply shops), their POS/EPOS vendors (Lightspeed, Shopify, Square)… | Per transaction / per line item at POS; aggregated to daily per store; monthly… | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Retail chains' ERP/merchandising systems, wholesalers and distributors of hobby/craft/collectible goods, dropship and marketplace… | Per SKU per store/warehouse, daily stock position; per purchase order | partnership |
| energy consumption | Retail chains' facility-management systems, utility suppliers, EPC/building-certificate registers for retail premises | Per store per month (meter readings); half-hourly for smart-metered sites | partnership |
| customer demographics | Retailer loyalty programmes, marketplace platforms, payment networks and consumer panels (GfK/NIQ, Kantar), geodemographic vendors… | Per loyalty member / per transaction; postcode-level segment aggregates | partnership |
| communications/marketing performance | Retailers' own ad accounts, Google/Meta/marketplace ad platforms, agencies and affiliate networks, email service providers | Per campaign/ad-group per day; per email send | 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.