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 | Local authorities and national animal-welfare regulators issuing pet shop licences (e.g. UK LA licensing registers, Germany §11 TierSchG… | Per licensed premises / per registered operator, with issue and expiry dates | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices and social-security registers (employment by NACE 47.76), retail sector trade associations, chains' HR systems | Per establishment headcount (chain HR); annual/quarterly aggregates by NACE… | public |
| financial filings | National company registers (Companies House, Handelsregister/Bundesanzeiger, KvK), listed garden/pet retail groups' annual reports, credit… | Annual (sometimes semi-annual) per legal entity; some segment reporting | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Animal welfare inspectorates and local licensing enforcement (pet shop inspection outcomes, prosecutions), product recall databases (Safety… | Per inspection or incident record; per recall notice | public |
| waste & emissions | Larger chains' sustainability reporting (plant/perishable waste, plastic pot packaging), packaging-compliance schemes (EPR registers)… | Annual per company; tonnage per site per collection | public |
| quality & compliance testing | National plant health inspectorates (import interception and nursery inspection records), food/feed safety authorities for pet food (RASFF… | Per inspection / per interception / per recall notification | public |
| pricing | Retailers' own price files, e-commerce sites (scrapable), price-comparison and retail-price-monitoring vendors, national statistics offices… | Per SKU per store/website per day; monthly CPI index at national level | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Store-location datasets from POI vendors (SafeGraph/Placekey-style, HERE, OpenStreetMap), mobile-location footfall vendors, shopping-park… | Per outlet coordinates; visit counts per outlet per day/hour | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | Google Maps/Reviews, Trustpilot, Facebook, Yelp, specialist garden-centre and pet-shop review sites | Per review per outlet with timestamp and rating | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Garden centre chains and pet retail chains (e.g. Dobbies, Fressnapf, Petco), their EPOS/retail-software vendors, loyalty-card programmes… | Per transaction / per SKU line at store level; aggregated to daily per site… | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Garden centre and pet shop chains' ERP/merchandising systems, wholesalers and horticultural auctions (Royal FloraHolland clock data), pet… | Per SKU per store per day; per auction lot/clock transaction | partnership |
| energy consumption | Garden centre operators (heated glasshouse retail space) and their energy suppliers/brokers; ESG sections of listed retailers' reports | Half-hourly to monthly meter reads per site; annual totals in sustainability… | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Horticultural logistics operators and Dutch flower auction transport networks, pet food distributors' TMS, third-party carriers serving… | Per shipment/trolley/pallet; monthly HS-code trade flows by country | partnership |
| weather-dependent metrics | Garden centre chains' own demand-planning teams pairing sales with met data; national meteorological services; horticultural trade bodies… | Daily weather per station joined to daily store sales; seasonal aggregates | partnership |
| customer demographics | Loyalty programmes of garden centre and pet retail chains, e-commerce account data, market research panels (GfK, Kantar, Euromonitor… | Per loyalty member / per household panel record; aggregated segment profiles by… | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Garden centre operators using glasshouse climate and irrigation controls, refrigeration/aquarium monitoring in pet departments… | Per sensor reading, minutes to hourly, per site | exclusive |
| communications/marketing performance | Retail chains' marketing teams, email/CRM platforms, Google/Meta ad accounts, agencies | Per campaign per channel 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.