{"title":"Machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing and associated parts market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/422-machinery-for-food-beverage-and-tobacco-processing","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"422","label":"Machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing and associated parts"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 226 supply contracts for machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing and associated parts through award notices on TED; the 98 of them that state a value (43.4%) add up to €48.2 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. EU countries together imported €5.62 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing and associated parts in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8438, 8478 and 8435; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 12.2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 238 companies have won 411 public supply contracts for machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing and associated parts in 30 European countries, in 270 award notices from 134 public buyers.","10.5% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Czechia.","The five companies that win most often hold 16.5% of all awards across Europe.","26.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":411,"awardNotices":270,"winningCompanies":238,"publicBuyers":134,"awardsWithValue":219,"awardedValueEur":83568586,"localAwards":368,"foreignAwards":43,"top5Share":0.1654501216545012,"singleBidAwards":102,"awardsWithKnownBids":384,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":3,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":64795},{"year":2024,"awards":65,"awardNotices":44,"awardsWithValue":45,"awardedValueEur":11122122},{"year":2025,"awards":226,"awardNotices":130,"awardsWithValue":98,"awardedValueEur":48242403},{"year":2026,"awards":117,"awardNotices":93,"awardsWithValue":73,"awardedValueEur":24139266}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8438","label":"Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter, for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink (other than machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable fats or oils)"},{"hs4":"8478","label":"Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter"},{"hs4":"8435","label":"Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit juices or similar beverages (excl. machinery for the treatment of these beverages, incl. centrifuges, filter presses, other filtering equipment and domestic appliances)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":5004575264},{"year":2024,"valueEur":5223959960},{"year":2025,"valueEur":5617175870}]},"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, \"Machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing and associated parts market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/422-machinery-for-food-beverage-and-tobacco-processing, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}