{"title":"Food, beverages, tobacco and related products market in Belgium","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/be/150-food-beverages-tobacco-and-related-products","scope":"Belgium","category":{"cpvGroup":"150","label":"Food, beverages, tobacco and related products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Belgium awarded 187 supply contracts for food, beverages, tobacco and related products through award notices on TED; the 173 of them that state a value (92.5%) add up to €247 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 121 companies have won 522 public supply contracts for food, beverages, tobacco and related products in Belgium, in 107 award notices from 81 public buyers.","79.1% of these awards went to companies registered in Belgium; the most frequent foreign origin is Luxembourg.","The five companies that win most often hold 26.2% of all awards.","10.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":522,"awardNotices":107,"winningCompanies":121,"publicBuyers":81,"awardsWithValue":415,"awardedValueEur":325665005,"localAwards":413,"foreignAwards":109,"top5Share":0.2624521072796935,"singleBidAwards":50,"awardsWithKnownBids":458,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":81,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":28,"awardedValueEur":5027425},{"year":2024,"awards":98,"awardNotices":29,"awardsWithValue":72,"awardedValueEur":38299026},{"year":2025,"awards":187,"awardNotices":33,"awardsWithValue":173,"awardedValueEur":247214088},{"year":2026,"awards":156,"awardNotices":32,"awardsWithValue":142,"awardedValueEur":35124466}]},"imports":null,"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Belgium — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €99.6 billion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":99553000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.5,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Food, beverages, tobacco and related products market in Belgium\", https://cresques.com/markets/be/150-food-beverages-tobacco-and-related-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}