{"title":"Miscellaneous printed matter market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/229-miscellaneous-printed-matter","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"229","label":"Miscellaneous printed matter"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 19 supply contracts for miscellaneous printed matter through award notices on TED; the 2 of them that state a value (10.5%) add up to €598,854, a floor rather than the full contract value. Germany imported €1.52 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to miscellaneous printed matter in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 4802 and 4801; all buyers, not only public ones), down 15.1% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 33 companies have won 37 public supply contracts for miscellaneous printed matter in Germany, in 27 award notices from 23 public buyers.","97.3% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 24.3% of all awards.","27% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":37,"awardNotices":27,"winningCompanies":33,"publicBuyers":23,"awardsWithValue":5,"awardedValueEur":2364172,"localAwards":36,"foreignAwards":1,"top5Share":0.24324324324324326,"singleBidAwards":10,"awardsWithKnownBids":37,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":0,"awardedValueEur":0},{"year":2024,"awards":12,"awardNotices":10,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":181800},{"year":2025,"awards":19,"awardNotices":11,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":598854},{"year":2026,"awards":5,"awardNotices":5,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":1583518}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"4802","label":"Uncoated paper and paperboard, of a kind used for writing, printing or other graphic purposes, and non-perforated punchcards and punch-tape paper, in rolls or in square or rectangular sheets, of any size, and handmade paper and paperboard (excl. newsprint of heading 4801 and paper of heading 4803)"},{"hs4":"4801","label":"Newsprint as specified in Note 4 to chapter 48, in rolls of a width > 28 cm or in square or rectangular sheets with one side > 28 cm and the other side > 15 cm in the unfolded state"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":1790820088},{"year":2024,"valueEur":1702694529},{"year":2025,"valueEur":1520339097}]},"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, \"Miscellaneous printed matter market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/229-miscellaneous-printed-matter, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}