{"title":"Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories market in Belgium","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/be/180-clothing-footwear-luggage-articles-and-accessories","scope":"Belgium","category":{"cpvGroup":"180","label":"Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Belgium awarded 15 supply contracts for clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories through award notices on TED; the 9 of them that state a value (60%) add up to €7.97 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 37 companies have won 56 public supply contracts for clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories in Belgium, in 36 award notices from 21 public buyers.","83.9% of these awards went to companies registered in Belgium; the most frequent foreign origin is France.","The five companies that win most often hold 32.1% of all awards.","28.1% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":56,"awardNotices":36,"winningCompanies":37,"publicBuyers":21,"awardsWithValue":43,"awardedValueEur":30813008,"localAwards":47,"foreignAwards":9,"top5Share":0.32142857142857145,"singleBidAwards":9,"awardsWithKnownBids":32,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":22,"awardNotices":18,"awardsWithValue":19,"awardedValueEur":18587873},{"year":2025,"awards":15,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":9,"awardedValueEur":7966013},{"year":2026,"awards":19,"awardNotices":10,"awardsWithValue":15,"awardedValueEur":4259122}]},"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, \"Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories market in Belgium\", https://cresques.com/markets/be/180-clothing-footwear-luggage-articles-and-accessories, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}