Prepared and preserved fish market in Europe: size, suppliers and public contracts
Market size and key facts
In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 1,480 supply contracts for prepared and preserved fish through award notices on TED; the 938 of them that state a value (63.4%) add up to €198 million. EU countries together imported €44.1 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to prepared and preserved fish in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 0304, 1604, 0306, 0307, 0303 and 3 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 9.7% from 2023.
- Since November 2023, 835 companies have won 4,309 public supply contracts for prepared and preserved fish in 30 European countries, in 1,775 award notices from 865 public buyers.
- 0.4% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.
- The five companies that win most often hold 16.5% of all awards across Europe.
- 20.1% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid.
In proportion
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.
Source: Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), retrieved 9 November 2026.
Updated · counted daily from contract award notices on TED and Eurostat international trade data · figures as JSON · free to quote with attribution (CC BY 4.0)
How to cite: Cresques, "Prepared and preserved fish market in Europe", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/152-prepared-and-preserved-fish, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
CPV group 152 across the EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein: how much public buyers award, who wins, where from, and how the market splits by country.
The market in numbers
Public supply contracts in Europe: award notices published on TED from 2023-11 to 2026-11, by publication year.
- Contracts awarded
- 4.3K
- in 1.8K award notices
- Awarded value
- €519.9M
- from 61% of awards with a published value
- Winning companies
- 835
- with at least one award
- Public buyers
- 865
- hospitals, cities, agencies
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| Nov–Dec 2023 | 42 |
| 2024 | 994 |
| 2025 | 1,480 |
| 2026 | 1,793 |
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| Nov–Dec 2023 | €8.1M |
| 2024 | €157.7M |
| 2025 | €197.6M |
| 2026 | €156.5M |
- Other11
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| Cities, regions and central administration | 868 |
| Hospitals and health services | 765 |
| Universities, schools and research | 624 |
| Culture, sport and religion | 584 |
| Armed forces and defence agencies | 568 |
| Social protection | 537 |
| Police, fire services and prisons | 313 |
| Economic affairs | 39 |
| Other | 11 |
- Romania91073 companies
- Czechia65182 companies
- Slovakia53066 companies
- Slovenia45732 companies
- Spain34586 companies
- Poland33695 companies
- France28994 companies
- Estonia24271 companies
- Bulgaria7842 companies
- Hungary6015 companies
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| Romania | 910 |
| Czechia | 651 |
| Slovakia | 530 |
| Slovenia | 457 |
| Spain | 345 |
| Poland | 336 |
| France | 289 |
| Estonia | 242 |
| Bulgaria | 78 |
| Hungary | 60 |
- Large companies
- Medium-sized
- Small
- Micro
- SME (size not stated)
- Size not stated
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| Large companies | 763 · 17.7% |
| Medium-sized | 919 · 21.3% |
| Small | 639 · 14.8% |
| Micro | 102 · 2.4% |
| SME (size not stated) | 1,267 · 29.4% |
| Size not stated | 619 · 14.4% |
- Netherlands5
- France4
- Spain4
- United Kingdom2
- Belgium1
- Slovakia1
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| Netherlands | 5 |
| France | 4 |
| Spain | 4 |
| United Kingdom | 2 |
| Belgium | 1 |
| Slovakia | 1 |
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| 2023 | €40B |
| 2024 | €41B |
| 2025 | €44B |
Imports: Eurostat Comext, customs headings 0304, 1604, 0306, 0307, 0303, 0305, 1605, 0308 (only headings whose trade is mainly this category); all buyers, not only public ones.
Awards to companies registered in the buyer's own country
99.6%
17 awards went to companies registered elsewhere.
Share of the 5 biggest winners
16.5%
Of all awards; a high share means a concentrated market.
Lots with a single bid
20.1%
Among 4.1K awards whose notice states the number of tenders.
How we count: one award per procedure, lot and winning company, from live contract award notices; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market. Values are the awarded amounts published in the notice (framework ceilings and estimates are never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Company size is the SME flag of the notice (eForms BT-165). Read the methodology.
Companies winning most often across Europe
- 1.TRHOŇ ZooFoods s.r.o.Czechia · 26 notices
- 2.Wikmani LT OÜEstonia · 24 notices
- 3.AGRO-BIO spol. s r.o.Czechia · 20 notices
- 4."Jawit" A. i J. Białas, L. i W. Lampara Spółka JawnaPoland · 19 notices
- 5.Vičiunai Baltic OsaühingEstonia · 13 notices
- 6."TRANS-MER" Sp. J. A. I S. KaczmarekPoland · 12 notices
- 7.REN Sp. z o.o.Poland · 12 notices
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Countries with fewer than 25 winning companies in this group have no separate page; their awards are counted above.
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Questions
- How big is the prepared and preserved fish market in Europe?
- In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 1,480 supply contracts for prepared and preserved fish through award notices on TED; the 938 of them that state a value (63.4%) add up to €198 million. EU countries together imported €44.1 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to prepared and preserved fish in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 0304, 1604, 0306, 0307, 0303 and 3 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 9.7% from 2023.
- How many public contracts for prepared and preserved fish are awarded in Europe?
- Since November 2023 public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 4,309 supply contracts for prepared and preserved fish in 1,775 TED award notices; the 2,612 awards with a published value add up to €519.9M.
- Which countries buy the most prepared and preserved fish through public tenders?
- Romania (910 awards), Czechia (651 awards), Slovakia (530 awards) lead; 835 companies won at least one award across Europe.
- How often do foreign suppliers win prepared and preserved fish contracts?
- 0.4% of the awards went to a company registered in another country than the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.
Source: contract award notices on TED — Tenders Electronic Daily (ted.europa.eu), © European Union, published since November 2023; processed by Cresques. Numbers updated 2026-11-13.