Cleaning and polishing products market in Europe: size, suppliers and public contracts
Market size and key facts
In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 3,807 supply contracts for cleaning and polishing products through award notices on TED; the 1,876 of them that state a value (49.3%) add up to €197 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. EU countries together imported €18.3 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to cleaning and polishing products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 3402, 3404 and 3405; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 6.8% from 2023.
- Since November 2023, 1,604 companies have won 11,925 public supply contracts for cleaning and polishing products in 30 European countries, in 2,421 award notices from 1,389 public buyers.
- 0.4% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Slovakia.
- The five companies that win most often hold 16.8% of all awards across Europe.
- 14.5% 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, "Cleaning and polishing products market in Europe", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/398-cleaning-and-polishing-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
What industry and official reports say
- Eurostat puts the turnover of EU soap and detergent manufacturers (NACE C20.41) in 2024 at €11.8 billion in Germany, €4.8 billion in Spain, €3.8 billion in Italy, €2.9 billion in Poland and €2.3 billion in France. Eurostat, Enterprises by detailed NACE Rev. 2 activity and special aggregates (sbs_ovw_act)
Figures from the publishers named, checked at the source on 9 November 2026. They measure the whole market (all buyers, different price bases and country scopes), so they are not comparable one-to-one with the public contract counts on this page.
CPV group 398 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
- 11.9K
- in 2.4K award notices
- Awarded value
- €961.8M
- from 58% of awards with a published value
- Winning companies
- 1.6K
- with at least one award
- Public buyers
- 1.4K
- hospitals, cities, agencies
Table view
| Nov–Dec 2023 | 37 |
| 2024 | 2,924 |
| 2025 | 3,807 |
| 2026 | 5,157 |
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| Nov–Dec 2023 | €3M |
| 2024 | €357.3M |
| 2025 | €197.2M |
| 2026 | €404.4M |
- Other320
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| Hospitals and health services | 6,871 |
| Cities, regions and central administration | 2,562 |
| Universities, schools and research | 835 |
| Economic affairs | 345 |
| Social protection | 319 |
| Armed forces and defence agencies | 303 |
| Police, fire services and prisons | 226 |
| Environment and waste | 144 |
| Other | 320 |
- Romania5,762153 companies
- France1,500286 companies
- Poland1,300220 companies
- Spain723265 companies
- Czechia49290 companies
- Germany29090 companies
- Croatia28128 companies
- Greece20744 companies
- Bulgaria15130 companies
- Slovenia14429 companies
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| Romania | 5,762 |
| France | 1,500 |
| Poland | 1,300 |
| Spain | 723 |
| Czechia | 492 |
| Germany | 290 |
| Croatia | 281 |
| Greece | 207 |
| Bulgaria | 151 |
| Slovenia | 144 |
- Large companies
- Medium-sized
- Small
- Micro
- SME (size not stated)
- Size not stated
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| Large companies | 2,206 · 18.5% |
| Medium-sized | 2,279 · 19.1% |
| Small | 3,039 · 25.5% |
| Micro | 253 · 2.1% |
| SME (size not stated) | 2,054 · 17.2% |
| Size not stated | 2,094 · 17.6% |
- Slovakia15
- Czechia14
- Austria6
- Belgium3
- Greece2
- ALA1
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| Slovakia | 15 |
| Czechia | 14 |
| Austria | 6 |
| Belgium | 3 |
| Greece | 2 |
| ALA | 1 |
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| 2023 | €17B |
| 2024 | €18B |
| 2025 | €18B |
Imports: Eurostat Comext, customs headings 3402, 3404, 3405 (only headings whose trade is mainly this category); all buyers, not only public ones.
Awards to companies registered in the buyer's own country
99.6%
47 awards went to companies registered elsewhere.
Share of the 5 biggest winners
16.8%
Of all awards; a high share means a concentrated market.
Lots with a single bid
14.5%
Among 11.1K 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.SIDE GRUP S.R.L.Romania · 64 notices
- 2.Velkoobchod ŠAS,s.r.o.Czechia · 44 notices
- 3.КУКУДА ГРУП ООДBulgaria · 41 notices
- 4.FABI TOTAL GRUP S.R.L.Romania · 40 notices
- 5.Rekal Svenska AktiebolagSweden · 37 notices
- 6.Higma Service Sp. z o.o.Poland · 34 notices
- 7.I-COM IRODAELLÁTÁS Kereskedelmi Korlátolt Felelősségű TársaságHungary · 34 notices
- 8.FLYNG IMPEX S.R.L.Romania · 32 notices
- 9.TIDEA s.r.o.Czechia · 30 notices
- 10.ARCA MONDO CHIM S.R.L.Romania · 29 notices
Companies with a public page whose main category is this group, by award notices; a market map in Cresques covers one country and, on paid plans, lists every winner there.
Country pages
- Romania5,762
- France1,500
- Poland1,300
- Spain723
- Czechia492
- Germany290
- Croatia281
- Greece207
- Bulgaria151
- Slovenia144
- Hungary134
- Finland125
- Sweden117
- Slovakia97
- Lithuania94
- Estonia91
- Cyprus26
Countries with fewer than 25 winning companies in this group have no separate page; their awards are counted above.
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Questions
- How big is the cleaning and polishing products market in Europe?
- In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 3,807 supply contracts for cleaning and polishing products through award notices on TED; the 1,876 of them that state a value (49.3%) add up to €197 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. EU countries together imported €18.3 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to cleaning and polishing products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 3402, 3404 and 3405; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 6.8% from 2023.
- How many public contracts for cleaning and polishing products are awarded in Europe?
- Since November 2023 public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 11,925 supply contracts for cleaning and polishing products in 2,421 TED award notices; the 6,938 awards with a published value add up to €961.8M.
- Which countries buy the most cleaning and polishing products through public tenders?
- Romania (5,762 awards), France (1,500 awards), Poland (1,300 awards) lead; 1,604 companies won at least one award across Europe.
- How often do foreign suppliers win cleaning and polishing products contracts?
- 0.4% of the awards went to a company registered in another country than the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Slovakia.
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.