{"title":"Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines market in Spain","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/es/222-newspapers-journals-periodicals-and-magazines","scope":"Spain","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 Spain awarded 53 supply contracts for newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines through award notices on TED; the 46 of them that state a value (86.8%) add up to €26.1 million. Spain imported €50.6 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 26% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 48 companies have won 205 public supply contracts for newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines in Spain, in 98 award notices from 36 public buyers.","82.4% of these awards went to companies registered in Spain; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 61% of all awards.","51.8% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":205,"awardNotices":98,"winningCompanies":48,"publicBuyers":36,"awardsWithValue":167,"awardedValueEur":77211411,"localAwards":169,"foreignAwards":36,"top5Share":0.6097560975609756,"singleBidAwards":88,"awardsWithKnownBids":170,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":16,"awardNotices":7,"awardsWithValue":16,"awardedValueEur":2222731},{"year":2024,"awards":74,"awardNotices":35,"awardsWithValue":66,"awardedValueEur":30455860},{"year":2025,"awards":53,"awardNotices":28,"awardsWithValue":46,"awardedValueEur":26085875},{"year":2026,"awards":62,"awardNotices":28,"awardsWithValue":39,"awardedValueEur":18446944}]},"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":40134581},{"year":2024,"valueEur":48658529},{"year":2025,"valueEur":50551797}]},"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, \"Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines market in Spain\", https://cresques.com/markets/es/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."}