Chain Store Guide (CSG) has been the leading provider of comprehensive retail and foodservice intelligence to businesses around the world. CSG details all major chains as-well-as high-performance single unit stores in the United States and Canada with contact information, including email addresses, social media handles and direct dial numbers, for hundreds of thousands of key decision makers. Our data is reviewed and confirmed by our experienced team of industry experts. While some companies simply scrape data from the internet without verification, our researchers validate every company profiled. These updates are confirmed and authenticated regularly to ensure that the data is accurate and current.

CSG provides data in an online portal, customized databases, and prints directories. Our clients consist of manufacturers, suppliers, service providers, brokers, real estate professionals, restaurants, analysts, consultants and other professionals seeking to gain insight into retail and foodservice markets in the U.S. and Canada.

In addition, CSG tracks over 700,000 geocoded retail and foodservice locations, providing updates for openings and closings, historical snapshots spanning over 10 years, and mappings of the locations closed both temporary & permanent due to the pandemic.