{"title":"Cereals, potatoes, vegetables, fruits and nuts market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/032-cereals-potatoes-vegetables-fruits-and-nuts","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"032","label":"Cereals, potatoes, vegetables, fruits and nuts"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 5,030 supply contracts for cereals, potatoes, vegetables, fruits and nuts through award notices on TED; the 2,875 of them that state a value (57.2%) add up to €368 million. EU countries together imported €63 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to cereals, potatoes, vegetables, fruits and nuts in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 0802, 1005, 1001, 0709, 0805 and 10 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 1.8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 1,376 companies have won 17,083 public supply contracts for cereals, potatoes, vegetables, fruits and nuts in 30 European countries, in 2,767 award notices from 1,216 public buyers.","0.3% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Czechia.","The five companies that win most often hold 39.6% of all awards across Europe.","10% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":17083,"awardNotices":2767,"winningCompanies":1376,"publicBuyers":1216,"awardsWithValue":8840,"awardedValueEur":754251008,"localAwards":17040,"foreignAwards":43,"top5Share":0.3958321137973424,"singleBidAwards":1543,"awardsWithKnownBids":15365,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":75,"awardNotices":33,"awardsWithValue":65,"awardedValueEur":8560145},{"year":2024,"awards":4404,"awardNotices":724,"awardsWithValue":1656,"awardedValueEur":129977656},{"year":2025,"awards":5030,"awardNotices":1002,"awardsWithValue":2875,"awardedValueEur":368152277},{"year":2026,"awards":7574,"awardNotices":1008,"awardsWithValue":4244,"awardedValueEur":247560929}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"0802","label":"Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled (excl. coconuts, Brazil nuts and cashew nuts)"},{"hs4":"1005","label":"Maize or corn"},{"hs4":"1001","label":"Wheat and meslin"},{"hs4":"0709","label":"Other vegetables, fresh or chilled (excl. potatoes, tomatoes, alliaceous vegetables, edible brassicas, lettuce \"Lactuca sativa\" and chicory \"Cichorium spp.\", carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, cucumbers and gherkins, and leguminous vegatables)"},{"hs4":"0805","label":"Citrus fruit, fresh or dried"},{"hs4":"0702","label":"Tomatoes, fresh or chilled"},{"hs4":"0701","label":"Potatoes, fresh or chilled"},{"hs4":"0808","label":"Apples, pears and quinces, fresh"},{"hs4":"0703","label":"Onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, fresh or chilled"},{"hs4":"1003","label":"Barley"},{"hs4":"0704","label":"Cabbages, cauliflowers, kohlrabi, kale and similar edible brassicas, fresh or chilled"},{"hs4":"0706","label":"Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, fresh or chilled"},{"hs4":"1004","label":"Oats"},{"hs4":"1002","label":"Rye"},{"hs4":"1007","label":"Grain sorghum"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":64145402500},{"year":2024,"valueEur":61215892276},{"year":2025,"valueEur":63000276015}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% 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":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"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, \"Cereals, potatoes, vegetables, fruits and nuts market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/032-cereals-potatoes-vegetables-fruits-and-nuts, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}