{"title":"Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/222-newspapers-journals-periodicals-and-magazines","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"222","label":"Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 18 supply contracts for newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines through award notices on TED. Germany imported €269 million of goods in the customs headings matched to newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 4902; all buyers, not only public ones), up 3.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 39 companies have won 57 public supply contracts for newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines in Germany, in 43 award notices from 35 public buyers.","93% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is United States.","The five companies that win most often hold 31.6% of all awards.","35.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":57,"awardNotices":43,"winningCompanies":39,"publicBuyers":35,"awardsWithValue":15,"awardedValueEur":2965653,"localAwards":53,"foreignAwards":4,"top5Share":0.3157894736842105,"singleBidAwards":20,"awardsWithKnownBids":56,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":13,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":1199088},{"year":2025,"awards":18,"awardNotices":16,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2026,"awards":25,"awardNotices":13,"awardsWithValue":12,"awardedValueEur":1766564}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"4902","label":"Newspapers, journals and periodicals, whether or not illustrated or containing advertising material"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":260409954},{"year":2024,"valueEur":238403293},{"year":2025,"valueEur":269496257}]},"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, \"Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/222-newspapers-journals-periodicals-and-magazines, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}