{"title":"Special clothing and accessories market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/184-special-clothing-and-accessories","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"184","label":"Special clothing and accessories"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 1,872 supply contracts for special clothing and accessories through award notices on TED; the 1,348 of them that state a value (72%) add up to €740 million. EU countries together imported €12.4 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to special clothing and accessories in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 6111, 6505, 6112, 6214, 6209 and 7 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 0.8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 1,787 companies have won 6,151 public supply contracts for special clothing and accessories in 30 European countries, in 2,203 award notices from 900 public buyers.","3% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is United Kingdom.","The five companies that win most often hold 14.9% of all awards across Europe.","24.7% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":6151,"awardNotices":2203,"winningCompanies":1787,"publicBuyers":900,"awardsWithValue":3801,"awardedValueEur":1374773683,"localAwards":5966,"foreignAwards":185,"top5Share":0.14875629978865226,"singleBidAwards":1379,"awardsWithKnownBids":5575,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":71,"awardNotices":26,"awardsWithValue":32,"awardedValueEur":8416591},{"year":2024,"awards":1582,"awardNotices":521,"awardsWithValue":774,"awardedValueEur":174872474},{"year":2025,"awards":1872,"awardNotices":777,"awardsWithValue":1348,"awardedValueEur":740418858},{"year":2026,"awards":2626,"awardNotices":879,"awardsWithValue":1647,"awardedValueEur":451065760}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"6111","label":"Babies' garments and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted (excl. hats)"},{"hs4":"6505","label":"Hats and other headgear, knitted or crocheted, or made up from lace, felt or other textile fabric, in the piece (but not in strips), whether or not lined or trimmed"},{"hs4":"6112","label":"Track-suits, ski-suits and swimwear, knitted or crocheted"},{"hs4":"6214","label":"Shawls, scarves, mufflers, mantillas, veils and similar articles (excl. knitted or crocheted)"},{"hs4":"6209","label":"Babies' garments and clothing accessories of textile materials (excl. knitted or crocheted and hats)"},{"hs4":"6117","label":"Made-up clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted"},{"hs4":"6217","label":"Made-up clothing accessories and parts of garments or clothing accessories, of all types of textile materials, n.e.s. (excl. knitted or crocheted)"},{"hs4":"9607","label":"Slide fasteners and parts thereof"},{"hs4":"9606","label":"Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press studs, button moulds and other parts of these articles"},{"hs4":"6504","label":"Hats and other headgear, plaited or made by assembling strips of any material, whether or not lined or trimmed (excl. headgear for animals, and toy and carnival headgear)"},{"hs4":"6215","label":"Ties, bow ties and cravats of textile materials (excl. knitted or crocheted)"},{"hs4":"6213","label":"Handkerchiefs, of which no side exceeds 60 cm (excl. knitted or crocheted)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":12336009077},{"year":2024,"valueEur":12139979579},{"year":2025,"valueEur":12438009757}]},"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, \"Special clothing and accessories market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/184-special-clothing-and-accessories, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}