{"title":"Sports goods and equipment market in France","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/fr/374-sports-goods-and-equipment","scope":"France","category":{"cpvGroup":"374","label":"Sports goods and equipment"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in France awarded 254 supply contracts for sports goods and equipment through award notices on TED; the 115 of them that state a value (45.3%) add up to €29.7 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. France imported €1.4 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to sports goods and equipment in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 9506; all buyers, not only public ones), up 3.3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 216 companies have won 605 public supply contracts for sports goods and equipment in France, in 226 award notices from 174 public buyers.","98.7% of these awards went to companies registered in France; the most frequent foreign origin is Italy.","The five companies that win most often hold 29.9% of all awards.","24.2% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":605,"awardNotices":226,"winningCompanies":216,"publicBuyers":174,"awardsWithValue":278,"awardedValueEur":97441045,"localAwards":597,"foreignAwards":8,"top5Share":0.2991735537190083,"singleBidAwards":130,"awardsWithKnownBids":537,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":179,"awardNotices":79,"awardsWithValue":116,"awardedValueEur":55471441},{"year":2025,"awards":254,"awardNotices":78,"awardsWithValue":115,"awardedValueEur":29703972},{"year":2026,"awards":172,"awardNotices":69,"awardsWithValue":47,"awardedValueEur":12265632}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"9506","label":"Articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics, athletics, other sports, incl. table-tennis, or outdoor games, not specified or included in this chapter or elsewhere"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":1354003296},{"year":2024,"valueEur":1328330270},{"year":2025,"valueEur":1399273024}]},"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, \"Sports goods and equipment market in France\", https://cresques.com/markets/fr/374-sports-goods-and-equipment, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}