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Investment banking M&A

eCommerce data for investment banking M&A and strategy teams

Data Purl gives investment banking M&A and strategy teams an independent, data-backed view of consumer brands and retailers: where a brand is sold, how it is priced against competitors, how often it discounts and how its range has changed over several years. Brands are resolved to their owners, so a target's full footprint across 400+ retailers can be assessed in one place.

What teams use it for

Origination and pitch preparation

Identify brands gaining distribution and holding full price, and support a pitch with evidence on positioning and momentum that is not in the target's own materials.

Buy-side and sell-side diligence

Benchmark a target against its competitive set on price architecture, promotional reliance, distribution footprint and range health.

Portfolio and ownership mapping

Brand-to-owner and licensing records show which companies own and license which brands, with dates, across consumer categories.

What you get

  • Project-scoped extracts by brand, retailer, category, country and date range
  • Multi-year retrospectives for a target and its competitors
  • Distribution footprint and online share of shelf by retailer
  • Delivery as files, through the portal or into Snowflake

Guides

Commercial due diligence with eCommerce data

What eCommerce data helps private equity, M&A bankers and consultants with commercial due diligence on a consumer brand?

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Mapping a brand's distribution across retailers

How can you see every retailer that carries a brand, and how that distribution is changing?

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Two ways to get the data

Analytics portal

For analysts who want answers fast. Explore sector, company, brand and retailer analytics, and download scoped extracts for project work.

  • Start free on historical data with limited downloads
  • Subscribe for ongoing access, or buy download credits per project
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Full dataset

For quantitative, data science and research teams who want every record in their own environment: the complete SKU-level history, refreshed weekly.

  • Delivered by Snowflake share or Amazon S3
  • Scoped with a founder to your coverage and use case
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Just need a one-off cut for a project? Scope a custom extract curated and researched, with the row count, price and a free sample first.

Common questions

Can the data be scoped to a single mandate?

Yes. Extracts are scoped to the brands, retailers, categories, countries and dates a mandate needs, and sized before anything is pulled.

Does it cover private brands as well as listed companies?

Yes. Brands are tracked regardless of ownership. Listed owners are additionally mapped to their tickers.

See the data for your coverage

Start free in the analytics portal, or talk to the founders about the full dataset delivered to Snowflake or S3.

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Data Purl

Data Purl turns public retailer websites into investment-grade data: SKU-level price, discount, availability and assortment history across 400+ retailers back to 2013, with brands resolved to their owners, public or private, and listed owners mapped to tickers.

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  • Public market investors
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  • Investment banking M&A
  • Venture capital

Use cases

  • Pricing power
  • Markdowns and inventory
  • Commercial due diligence
  • Brand distribution
  • Category inflation
  • Portfolio monitoring
  • Tariff pass-through
  • Holiday promotions
  • Private label
  • Assortment cuts
  • Earnings previews
  • Product launches

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retailers
1,900+
public companies mapped
4,000
product categories
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