Footwear market in Europe: size, suppliers and public contracts
Market size and key facts
In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 1,106 supply contracts for footwear through award notices on TED; the 688 of them that state a value (62.2%) add up to €604 million. EU countries together imported €69 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to footwear in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 6403, 6404, 6402, 6406, 6405 and 6401; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 7.1% from 2023.
- Since November 2023, 892 companies have won 2,843 public supply contracts for footwear in 30 European countries, in 1,278 award notices from 778 public buyers.
- 2% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.
- The five companies that win most often hold 14.9% of all awards across Europe.
- 29% 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, "Footwear market in Europe", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/188-footwear, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
CPV group 188 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
- 2.8K
- in 1.3K award notices
- Awarded value
- €1.1B
- from 64% of awards with a published value
- Winning companies
- 892
- with at least one award
- Public buyers
- 778
- hospitals, cities, agencies
Table view
| Nov–Dec 2023 | 24 |
| 2024 | 839 |
| 2025 | 1,106 |
| 2026 | 874 |
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| Nov–Dec 2023 | €2.9M |
| 2024 | €134.5M |
| 2025 | €604.5M |
| 2026 | €400.4M |
- Other197
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| Cities, regions and central administration | 1,180 |
| Armed forces and defence agencies | 437 |
| Police, fire services and prisons | 432 |
| Hospitals and health services | 275 |
| Universities, schools and research | 113 |
| Environment and waste | 89 |
| Economic affairs | 83 |
| Electricity utilities | 37 |
| Other | 197 |
- Spain491191 companies
- France469187 companies
- Romania41932 companies
- Poland31972 companies
- Croatia15524 companies
- Germany15553 companies
- Czechia13245 companies
- Bulgaria8620 companies
- Slovakia6719 companies
- Slovenia5516 companies
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| Spain | 491 |
| France | 469 |
| Romania | 419 |
| Poland | 319 |
| Croatia | 155 |
| Germany | 155 |
| Czechia | 132 |
| Bulgaria | 86 |
| Slovakia | 67 |
| Slovenia | 55 |
- Large companies
- Medium-sized
- Small
- Micro
- SME (size not stated)
- Size not stated
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| Large companies | 445 · 15.7% |
| Medium-sized | 446 · 15.7% |
| Small | 376 · 13.2% |
| Micro | 88 · 3.1% |
| SME (size not stated) | 934 · 32.9% |
| Size not stated | 554 · 19.5% |
- Germany21
- Slovakia10
- GRD4
- Czechia3
- Spain3
- France2
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| Germany | 21 |
| Slovakia | 10 |
| GRD | 4 |
| Czechia | 3 |
| Spain | 3 |
| France | 2 |
Table view
| 2023 | €64B |
| 2024 | €65B |
| 2025 | €69B |
Imports: Eurostat Comext, customs headings 6403, 6404, 6402, 6406, 6405, 6401 (only headings whose trade is mainly this category); all buyers, not only public ones.
Awards to companies registered in the buyer's own country
98%
56 awards went to companies registered elsewhere.
Share of the 5 biggest winners
14.9%
Of all awards; a high share means a concentrated market.
Lots with a single bid
29%
Among 2.6K 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.Prabos plus a.s.Czechia · 47 notices
- 2.LENOX PROD S.R.L.Romania · 42 notices
- 3.Narzędzia dla Leśnictwa GRUBE Sp. z o.o.Poland · 32 notices
- 4.HAIX-Schuhe Produktions- und Vertriebs GmbHGermany · 31 notices
- 5.БУЛТЕКС 99 ЕООДBulgaria · 24 notices
- 6.Sabiedrība ar ierobežotu atbildību "SYNERGY"Latvia · 23 notices
- 7.ТЕКС ПРОТЕКТ-2000 ЕООДBulgaria · 20 notices
- 8.Wojas S.A.Poland · 19 notices
- 9.UVEX ARBEITSSCHUTZ GmbHGermany · 18 notices
- 10.LARIX Janusz Pieła Spółka Komandytowo-AkcyjnaPoland · 15 notices
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Questions
- How big is the footwear market in Europe?
- In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 1,106 supply contracts for footwear through award notices on TED; the 688 of them that state a value (62.2%) add up to €604 million. EU countries together imported €69 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to footwear in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 6403, 6404, 6402, 6406, 6405 and 6401; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 7.1% from 2023.
- How many public contracts for footwear are awarded in Europe?
- Since November 2023 public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 2,843 supply contracts for footwear in 1,278 TED award notices; the 1,827 awards with a published value add up to €1.1B.
- Which countries buy the most footwear through public tenders?
- Spain (491 awards), France (469 awards), Romania (419 awards) lead; 892 companies won at least one award across Europe.
- How often do foreign suppliers win footwear contracts?
- 2.0% of the awards went to a company registered in another country than the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.
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.