Data sources: Retail sale of flowers, plants, fertilisers, pets and pet food
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.