{"title":"Games and toys; fairground amusements market in Germany","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/de/375-games-and-toys-fairground-amusements","scope":"Germany","category":{"cpvGroup":"375","label":"Games and toys; fairground amusements"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Germany awarded 17 supply contracts for games and toys; fairground amusements through award notices on TED; the 7 of them that state a value (41.2%) add up to €4.44 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Germany imported €7.1 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to games and toys; fairground amusements in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9503, 9504 and 9508; all buyers, not only public ones), up 0.3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 35 companies have won 69 public supply contracts for games and toys; fairground amusements in Germany, in 30 award notices from 27 public buyers.","94.2% of these awards went to companies registered in Germany; the most frequent foreign origin is Austria.","The five companies that win most often hold 47.8% of all awards.","15.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":69,"awardNotices":30,"winningCompanies":35,"publicBuyers":27,"awardsWithValue":11,"awardedValueEur":5205286,"localAwards":65,"foreignAwards":4,"top5Share":0.4782608695652174,"singleBidAwards":11,"awardsWithKnownBids":69,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":14,"awardNotices":9,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":745926},{"year":2025,"awards":17,"awardNotices":15,"awardsWithValue":7,"awardedValueEur":4439030},{"year":2026,"awards":38,"awardNotices":6,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":20330}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9503","label":"Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys"},{"hs4":"9504","label":"Video game consoles and machines, articles for funfair, table or parlour games, incl. pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment"},{"hs4":"9508","label":"Roundabouts, swings, shooting galleries and other fairground amusements"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":7078071325},{"year":2024,"valueEur":6256680682},{"year":2025,"valueEur":7100260459}]},"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, \"Games and toys; fairground amusements market in Germany\", https://cresques.com/markets/de/375-games-and-toys-fairground-amusements, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}