{"title":"Miscellaneous printed matter market in France","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/fr/229-miscellaneous-printed-matter","scope":"France","category":{"cpvGroup":"229","label":"Miscellaneous printed matter"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in France awarded 46 supply contracts for miscellaneous printed matter through award notices on TED; the 12 of them that state a value (26.1%) add up to €2.44 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. France imported €883 million of goods in the customs headings matched to miscellaneous printed matter in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 4802 and 4801; all buyers, not only public ones), down 20.5% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 81 companies have won 117 public supply contracts for miscellaneous printed matter in France, in 45 award notices from 43 public buyers.","98.3% of these awards went to companies registered in France; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 18.8% of all awards.","17.9% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":117,"awardNotices":45,"winningCompanies":81,"publicBuyers":43,"awardsWithValue":44,"awardedValueEur":12142555,"localAwards":115,"foreignAwards":2,"top5Share":0.18803418803418803,"singleBidAwards":19,"awardsWithKnownBids":106,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":37,"awardNotices":15,"awardsWithValue":22,"awardedValueEur":8273482},{"year":2025,"awards":46,"awardNotices":16,"awardsWithValue":12,"awardedValueEur":2438788},{"year":2026,"awards":34,"awardNotices":14,"awardsWithValue":10,"awardedValueEur":1430285}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"4802","label":"Uncoated paper and paperboard, of a kind used for writing, printing or other graphic purposes, and non-perforated punchcards and punch-tape paper, in rolls or in square or rectangular sheets, of any size, and handmade paper and paperboard (excl. newsprint of heading 4801 and paper of heading 4803)"},{"hs4":"4801","label":"Newsprint as specified in Note 4 to chapter 48, in rolls of a width > 28 cm or in square or rectangular sheets with one side > 28 cm and the other side > 15 cm in the unfolded state"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":1110120966},{"year":2024,"valueEur":986169212},{"year":2025,"valueEur":882952090}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in France — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €486 billion in 2025, 16.2% 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":485827000000,"percentOfGdp":16.2,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.3,"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, \"Miscellaneous printed matter market in France\", https://cresques.com/markets/fr/229-miscellaneous-printed-matter, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}