{"title":"Printed matter and related products market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/220-printed-matter-and-related-products","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"220","label":"Printed matter and related products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 51 supply contracts for printed matter and related products through award notices on TED; the 3 of them that state a value (5.9%) add up to €1.42 million, a floor rather than the full contract value.","facts":["Since November 2023, 99 companies have won 157 public supply contracts for printed matter and related products in Germany, in 98 award notices from 78 public buyers.","97.5% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is Switzerland.","The five companies that win most often hold 17.2% of all awards.","16.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":157,"awardNotices":98,"winningCompanies":99,"publicBuyers":78,"awardsWithValue":16,"awardedValueEur":15314792,"localAwards":153,"foreignAwards":4,"top5Share":0.17197452229299362,"singleBidAwards":26,"awardsWithKnownBids":154,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":3,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":50,"awardNotices":28,"awardsWithValue":7,"awardedValueEur":12495354},{"year":2025,"awards":51,"awardNotices":32,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":1415313},{"year":2026,"awards":53,"awardNotices":35,"awardsWithValue":6,"awardedValueEur":1404125}]},"imports":null,"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Germany — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €864 billion in 2025, 19.1% 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":863609000000,"percentOfGdp":19.1,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":38,"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, \"Printed matter and related products market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/220-printed-matter-and-related-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}