{"title":"Leather market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/191-leather","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"191","label":"Leather"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 9 supply contracts for leather through award notices on TED; the 4 of them that state a value (44.4%) add up to €27.2 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. EU countries together imported €3.53 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to leather in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 4107, 4104, 4113, 4112, 4105 and 3 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 14.8% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 15 companies have won 15 public supply contracts for leather in 30 European countries, in 13 award notices from 12 public buyers.","0% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer.","The five companies that win most often hold 33.3% of all awards across Europe.","53.8% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":15,"awardNotices":13,"winningCompanies":15,"publicBuyers":12,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":28825029,"localAwards":15,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.3333333333333333,"singleBidAwards":7,"awardsWithKnownBids":13,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":4,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":1633780},{"year":2025,"awards":9,"awardNotices":7,"awardsWithValue":4,"awardedValueEur":27164249},{"year":2026,"awards":2,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":27000}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"4107","label":"Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting \"incl. parchment-dressed leather\", of bovine \"incl. buffalo\" or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split (excl. chamois leather, patent leather and patent laminated leather, and metallised leather)"},{"hs4":"4104","label":"Tanned or crust hides and skins of bovine \"incl. buffalo\" or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split (excl. further prepared)"},{"hs4":"4113","label":"Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting \"incl. parchment-dressed leather\", of goats or kids, pigs, reptiles and other animals, without wool or hair on, and leather of hairless animals, whether or not split (excl. leather of bovine and equine animals, sheep and lambs, and chamois leather, patent leather and patent laminated leather, and metallised leather)"},{"hs4":"4112","label":"Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting \"incl. parchment-dressed leather\", of sheep or lambs, without wool on, whether or not split (excl. chamois leather, patent leather and patent laminated leather, and metallised leather)"},{"hs4":"4105","label":"Tanned or crust skins of sheep or lambs, without wool on, whether or not split (excl. further prepared)"},{"hs4":"4114","label":"Chamois leather, incl. combination chamois leather (excl. glacé-tanned leather subsequently treated with formaldehyde and leather stuffed with oil only after tanning)"},{"hs4":"4106","label":"Tanned or crust hides and skins of goats or kids, pigs, reptiles and other animals, without wool on, and leather of hairless animals, whether or not split (excl. further prepared and leather of bovine and equine animals, sheep and lambs)"},{"hs4":"4115","label":"Composition leather with a basis of leather or leather fibre, in slabs, sheets or strip, whether or not in rolls"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":4144362570},{"year":2024,"valueEur":3632700448},{"year":2025,"valueEur":3532345402}]},"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, \"Leather market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/191-leather, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}