Question 1

How do I find companies that produce or trade a specific commodity?

Accepted Answer

TheirStack finds companies that produce or trade a commodity by searching job descriptions for its name, since companies hiring plant staff, buyers or traders who handle it name it in their job ads. Match whole words, or a pattern for spelling variants, then switch to companies to see who matches.

Question 2

Why use job ads to find suppliers instead of a company directory?

Accepted Answer

Job ads show what a company handles today, while a directory entry can be years old. A company hiring for a cocoa quality role this month is working with cocoa now. On TheirStack each job also has its own location, so you see where the work happens, which can differ from the head office.

Question 3

How do I tell producers apart from traders?

Accepted Answer

In TheirStack, you tell commodity producers from traders by adding job titles to the commodity search: plant, mine or production roles point to producers, and trader, originator or freight roles point to traders and merchants. Run each set as its own search, or use the industry filter to separate manufacturers from wholesalers.

Question 4

How do I find new suppliers of a commodity as they appear?

Accepted Answer

TheirStack can alert you to new suppliers of a commodity: save your commodity search as a company search and attach a webhook with the new company event, which fires the first time a company matches and only once per company. Email alerts work too. Only companies whose job ads name the commodity appear.

Question 5

Can I export the matching companies as a market map?

Accepted Answer

Yes, TheirStack exports the companies matching a commodity search as a market map: a Company Search export includes industry, employee count, headquarters and estimated revenue, plus job counts and a column for each keyword in your search. That gives you who handles the commodity, how big each company is and how much it hires.

Map producers and traders of a commodity

How mapping the producers and traders of a commodity works

Find every company whose job ads name the commodity

Sort producers from traders by the roles they hire

Export the companies as a market map

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