{"title":"Furniture market in Bulgaria","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/bg/391-furniture","scope":"Bulgaria","category":{"cpvGroup":"391","label":"Furniture"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Bulgaria awarded 200 supply contracts for furniture through award notices on TED; the 188 of them that state a value (94%) add up to €11.9 million. Bulgaria imported €481 million of goods in the customs headings matched to furniture in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9403, 9401 and 4814; all buyers, not only public ones), up 17.9% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 128 companies have won 461 public supply contracts for furniture in Bulgaria, in 390 award notices from 163 public buyers.","99.6% of these awards went to companies registered in Bulgaria; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 40.6% of all awards.","27.3% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":461,"awardNotices":390,"winningCompanies":128,"publicBuyers":163,"awardsWithValue":433,"awardedValueEur":39013321,"localAwards":459,"foreignAwards":2,"top5Share":0.40563991323210413,"singleBidAwards":121,"awardsWithKnownBids":444,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":88,"awardNotices":76,"awardsWithValue":78,"awardedValueEur":11955535},{"year":2025,"awards":200,"awardNotices":164,"awardsWithValue":188,"awardedValueEur":11851916},{"year":2026,"awards":173,"awardNotices":150,"awardsWithValue":167,"awardedValueEur":15205871}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9403","label":"Furniture and parts thereof, n.e.s. (excl. seats and medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture)"},{"hs4":"9401","label":"Seats, whether or not convertible into beds, and parts thereof, n.e.s. (excl. medical, surgical, dental or veterinary of heading 9402)"},{"hs4":"4814","label":"Wallpaper and similar wallcoverings of paper"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":407668522},{"year":2024,"valueEur":446336525},{"year":2025,"valueEur":480630585}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Bulgaria — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €14.4 billion in 2025, 12.4% 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":14443000000,"percentOfGdp":12.4,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":29.5,"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":[{"text":"Eurostat counts 131,295 furniture manufacturing enterprises in the EU in 2024, with about 900,000 persons employed.","source":"Eurostat, Enterprises by detailed NACE Rev. 2 activity and special aggregates (sbs_ovw_act)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/sbs_ovw_act?geo=EU27_2020&nace_r2=C31&indic_sbs=ENT_NR&time=2024&lang=en&indic_sbs=EMP_NR","referenceYear":2024},{"text":"EU manufacturers sold €4.27 billion of wooden office furniture in 2024 (Eurostat PRODCOM), down from €4.75 billion in 2023.","source":"Eurostat, Sold production, exports and imports (PRODCOM, DS-059358)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-059358?lang=en&product=31011200&reporter=EU27_2020&indicators=PRODVAL&indicators=PRODQNT&indicators=PVALFLAG&time=2024","referenceYear":2024},{"text":"EU manufacturers sold €1.91 billion of metal office furniture in 2024, 22.6 million pieces (Eurostat PRODCOM).","source":"Eurostat, Sold production, exports and imports (PRODCOM, DS-059358)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-059358?lang=en&product=31011100&reporter=EU27_2020&indicators=PRODVAL&indicators=PRODQNT&indicators=PVALFLAG&time=2024","referenceYear":2024}],"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, \"Furniture market in Bulgaria\", https://cresques.com/markets/bg/391-furniture, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}