{"title":"Printed books, brochures and leaflets market in Spain","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/es/221-printed-books-brochures-and-leaflets","scope":"Spain","category":{"cpvGroup":"221","label":"Printed books, brochures and leaflets"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Spain awarded 120 supply contracts for printed books, brochures and leaflets through award notices on TED; the 37 of them that state a value (30.8%) add up to €14.6 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Spain imported €317 million of goods in the customs headings matched to printed books, brochures and leaflets in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 4901; all buyers, not only public ones), down 5.4% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 172 companies have won 392 public supply contracts for printed books, brochures and leaflets in Spain, in 69 award notices from 49 public buyers.","98.2% of these awards went to companies registered in Spain; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 31.1% of all awards.","5.2% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":392,"awardNotices":69,"winningCompanies":172,"publicBuyers":49,"awardsWithValue":94,"awardedValueEur":31664836,"localAwards":385,"foreignAwards":7,"top5Share":0.3112244897959184,"singleBidAwards":20,"awardsWithKnownBids":386,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":10,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":10,"awardedValueEur":249669},{"year":2024,"awards":91,"awardNotices":28,"awardsWithValue":25,"awardedValueEur":14277123},{"year":2025,"awards":120,"awardNotices":25,"awardsWithValue":37,"awardedValueEur":14640632},{"year":2026,"awards":171,"awardNotices":15,"awardsWithValue":22,"awardedValueEur":2497412}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"4901","label":"Printed books, brochures and similar printed matter, whether or not in single sheets (excl. periodicals and publications which are essentially devoted to advertising)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":335485850},{"year":2024,"valueEur":322091302},{"year":2025,"valueEur":317431285}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Spain — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €192 billion in 2025, 11.3% 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":191764000000,"percentOfGdp":11.3,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":25,"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 books, brochures and leaflets market in Spain\", https://cresques.com/markets/es/221-printed-books-brochures-and-leaflets, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}