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Use case

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

Retailers each use their own product names and site menus, so seeing a brand's full distribution requires resolving every listing to the same brand and owner. Data Purl does this across 400+ retailers, which shows the brand on its own website and across every wholesale partner, specialty retailer and department store in one view, with history.

For:Public market investorsPrivate equityConsultantsInvestment banking M&AVenture capital

Last reviewed 24 September 2026

What you can see

  • The number of retailers listing the brand, over time.
  • Assortment size at each retailer, and which categories each retailer carries.
  • Price and discounting differences between the brand's own site and its partners.
  • Exits and entries: retailers dropping or adding the brand.

Why it is hard to do with raw web data

A raw scrape of one retailer gives you that retailer. Combining many requires matching brand names that are spelled differently, separating sub-brands and licensed lines, and placing products into the same categories. That entity resolution is the work Data Purl does before the data is delivered.

Metrics used

  • Share of shelf (online): A brand's share of the products a retailer lists in a category, measured on the retailer's website.
  • DTC vs wholesale mix: How a brand's online assortment and pricing split between its own direct-to-consumer site and its wholesale retail partners.
  • Channel leakage: Products moving from premium retailers to off-price retailers, a signal of excess inventory and brand-positioning risk.
  • Brand-to-ticker mapping: Linking each consumer brand to the company that owns it and to that company's listed security, with ownership changes dated.

How each measure is built: methodology.

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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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