{"title":"Cleaning and polishing products market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/398-cleaning-and-polishing-products","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"398","label":"Cleaning and polishing products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"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.","facts":["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."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":11925,"awardNotices":2421,"winningCompanies":1604,"publicBuyers":1389,"awardsWithValue":6938,"awardedValueEur":961830395,"localAwards":11878,"foreignAwards":47,"top5Share":0.16830188679245284,"singleBidAwards":1611,"awardsWithKnownBids":11109,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":37,"awardNotices":22,"awardsWithValue":27,"awardedValueEur":2951236},{"year":2024,"awards":2924,"awardNotices":732,"awardsWithValue":1516,"awardedValueEur":357267056},{"year":2025,"awards":3807,"awardNotices":839,"awardsWithValue":1876,"awardedValueEur":197249676},{"year":2026,"awards":5157,"awardNotices":828,"awardsWithValue":3519,"awardedValueEur":404362427}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"3402","label":"Organic surface-active agents (excl. soap)"},{"hs4":"3404","label":"Artificial waxes and prepared waxes"},{"hs4":"3405","label":"Shoe polish, furniture wax and floor waxes, polishes and creams for coachwork, glass or metal, scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations, whether or not in the form of paper, wadding, felt, nonwovens, sponge plastics, cellular plastics or cellular rubber, impregnated, coated or covered with such preparations (excl. artificial and prepared waxes of heading 3404)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":17115338505},{"year":2024,"valueEur":17833360794},{"year":2025,"valueEur":18279957499}]},"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 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.","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?nace_r2=C2041&indic_sbs=NETTUR_MEUR&time=2024&geo=DE&geo=IT&geo=PL&geo=FR&geo=ES&geo=BE&lang=en","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, \"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."}