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Number of businesses in office supply and stationery retail trade in Germany from 2002 to 2022

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March 2024

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2002 to 2022

Supplementary notes

Companies with an annual revenue of at least 22,000 euros (until 2019: 17,500 euros; before 2003: 16,620 euros).
Figures for previous years are based on earlier source reports.
Figures from 2009 are based on a new classification of economic sectors. They can therefore be only partially compared to those for previous years.
To access this statistic, click the web link and type the code "73311-0002" into the search bar. Stationery, office and school supplies retail is filed under the label WZ08-47622.

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The number of businesses in German office supply and stationery retail has been declining year after year, as can be clearly seen in this graph. While in 2002 there were close to businesses, in 2022 numbers had dropped to less than .��

Off paper

Office supply and stationery retail developments are being influenced by a number of factors, the leading one being perhaps the ongoing digitalization in the workplace that is leading to a decreased demand for analog office supplies. Another reason might be that these goods are easy to get and are also available not just in specialized shops, but in supermarkets and drugstores, to name just a few examples.��
However, retail revenues of office supply and stationery goods have been generally declining for the past five years, reaching just under *** billion euros in 2022.

China in the lead

According to most recent figures, China was the leading exporter of office supplies to the rest of the world, with an export value of about *** billion U.S. dollars. Germany ranked second, with an export volume of approximately *** billion U.S. dollars worth of office supplies that year.