{"title":"Furniture market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/391-furniture","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"391","label":"Furniture"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 8,728 supply contracts for furniture through award notices on TED; the 6,284 of them that state a value (72%) add up to €1.58 billion. EU countries together imported €65 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to furniture in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9403, 9401 and 4814; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 6.3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 6,467 companies have won 25,497 public supply contracts for furniture in 30 European countries, in 12,672 award notices from 5,507 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 3.2% of all awards across Europe.","23.3% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":25497,"awardNotices":12672,"winningCompanies":6467,"publicBuyers":5507,"awardsWithValue":17835,"awardedValueEur":5037026992,"localAwards":24979,"foreignAwards":518,"top5Share":0.03200376514884104,"singleBidAwards":5424,"awardsWithKnownBids":23308,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":313,"awardNotices":191,"awardsWithValue":213,"awardedValueEur":45289214},{"year":2024,"awards":7518,"awardNotices":3585,"awardsWithValue":4879,"awardedValueEur":1459839028},{"year":2025,"awards":8728,"awardNotices":4434,"awardsWithValue":6284,"awardedValueEur":1584964956},{"year":2026,"awards":8938,"awardNotices":4462,"awardsWithValue":6459,"awardedValueEur":1946933794}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9403","label":"Furniture and parts thereof, n.e.s. (excl. seats and medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture)"},{"hs4":"9401","label":"Seats, whether or not convertible into beds, and parts thereof, n.e.s. (excl. medical, surgical, dental or veterinary of heading 9402)"},{"hs4":"4814","label":"Wallpaper and similar wallcoverings of paper"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":61127950188},{"year":2024,"valueEur":62547488592},{"year":2025,"valueEur":65006745948}]},"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":[{"text":"Eurostat counts 131,295 furniture manufacturing enterprises in the EU in 2024, with about 900,000 persons employed.","source":"Eurostat, Enterprises by detailed NACE Rev. 2 activity and special aggregates (sbs_ovw_act)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/sbs_ovw_act?geo=EU27_2020&nace_r2=C31&indic_sbs=ENT_NR&time=2024&lang=en&indic_sbs=EMP_NR","referenceYear":2024},{"text":"EU manufacturers sold €4.27 billion of wooden office furniture in 2024 (Eurostat PRODCOM), down from €4.75 billion in 2023.","source":"Eurostat, Sold production, exports and imports (PRODCOM, DS-059358)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-059358?lang=en&product=31011200&reporter=EU27_2020&indicators=PRODVAL&indicators=PRODQNT&indicators=PVALFLAG&time=2024","referenceYear":2024},{"text":"EU manufacturers sold €1.91 billion of metal office furniture in 2024, 22.6 million pieces (Eurostat PRODCOM).","source":"Eurostat, Sold production, exports and imports (PRODCOM, DS-059358)","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/comext/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/DS-059358?lang=en&product=31011100&reporter=EU27_2020&indicators=PRODVAL&indicators=PRODQNT&indicators=PVALFLAG&time=2024","referenceYear":2024}],"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, \"Furniture market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/391-furniture, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}