Billiards Market Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Global Industry Analysis: By Type (Carom, Pool, and Snooker), By Equipment (Table Ball, Cue, Snooker Cue, Nine Ball Cue, and Other Equipment), By Distribution Channel (Offline and Online), By Application (Club, Race, Family, and Others), and Region Forecast 2019-2030

Billiards Market size was valued at US$ 673.6 million in 2023 and is poised to grow at a CAGR of 2.8% from 2024-2030. In recent years, the increased popularity of cue games among the millennial population has sparked interest in billiards. The market is being driven by macroeconomic reasons such as mass urbanization and economic development in emerging nations, which have boosted the number of pool clubs and generated interest in the game among a varied spectrum of people around the world. Product development, matched with consumer loyalty, is one of the essential microeconomic components determining growth.

Moreover, Various governing bodies and groups contributed significantly to promoting billiards and snooker as a sport. Furthermore, the government's encouraging billiards and snooker will create additional prospects for the billiard cues industry to grow in the coming years. Another factor contributing to the global billiards and snooker equipment market is the e-retailing of various billiards and snooker items, resulting from cost-effective marketing and reaching a broader audience.

Furthermore, the market's pace is projected to be fueled by the growing trend of organized retail chains. A billiard or pool table is a bounded table on which billiards-type games (cue sports) are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool, or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate that is covered with cloth (usually of tightly woven worsted wool called baize) and surrounded by vulcanized rubber cushions, with the whole elevated above the floor. More specific terms are used for particular sports, such as snooker table and pool table, and different-sized billiard balls are used on these table types. An obsolete term is billiard board, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Key Developments

• In December 2021, Predator Group, a prominent manufacturer of pool cues, billiard accessories, and, more recently, pool tables, completed the acquisition of Billard Beckmann GmbH of Germany. Billard Beckmann, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, has been a long-time distributor of Predator Group's products and focuses on providing high-quality billiard products and services to billiard fans and companies in German-speaking European countries.