{"title":"Games and toys; fairground amusements market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/375-games-and-toys-fairground-amusements","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"375","label":"Games and toys; fairground amusements"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 730 supply contracts for games and toys; fairground amusements through award notices on TED; the 380 of them that state a value (52.1%) add up to €124 million. EU countries together imported €35.3 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to games and toys; fairground amusements in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9503, 9504 and 9508; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 0.4% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 717 companies have won 2,115 public supply contracts for games and toys; fairground amusements in 30 European countries, in 919 award notices from 684 public buyers.","2.8% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Denmark.","The five companies that win most often hold 10.3% of all awards across Europe.","19.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":2115,"awardNotices":919,"winningCompanies":717,"publicBuyers":684,"awardsWithValue":1210,"awardedValueEur":652798176,"localAwards":2056,"foreignAwards":59,"top5Share":0.10260047281323877,"singleBidAwards":389,"awardsWithKnownBids":1954,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":29,"awardNotices":23,"awardsWithValue":22,"awardedValueEur":3302301},{"year":2024,"awards":500,"awardNotices":241,"awardsWithValue":326,"awardedValueEur":176982614},{"year":2025,"awards":730,"awardNotices":330,"awardsWithValue":380,"awardedValueEur":123955259},{"year":2026,"awards":856,"awardNotices":325,"awardsWithValue":482,"awardedValueEur":348558003}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9503","label":"Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys"},{"hs4":"9504","label":"Video game consoles and machines, articles for funfair, table or parlour games, incl. pintables, billiards, special tables for casino games and automatic bowling alley equipment"},{"hs4":"9508","label":"Roundabouts, swings, shooting galleries and other fairground amusements"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":35465090613},{"year":2024,"valueEur":30651353037},{"year":2025,"valueEur":35307376234}]},"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, \"Games and toys; fairground amusements market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/375-games-and-toys-fairground-amusements, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}