Bulgaria’s bright side

Three small business stories: children fashion, fruits and grain

The week: Is Bulgaria the limp pig of EU regulation, coal is (still) here, minimum wage surpasses Montenegro

Also: New Parliament is up, as well as the new 12 bn. Leva Plan

Fintech Innovator Credissimo seals a long-term partnership with Crowd Credit, Japan

The office market: Less rent, less construction

Vacant office space in Sofia reached a five-year high of 13% in 2020

The golden passports of Bulgaria; the new lockdown and the elections; how to get a year of free rent

K Insights 19/03: the dirty campaign begins and what is cyberethics

The deals of 2020: Few and far between

The pandemic practically froze the M&A market. Buyers are still mostly local faces

Elections looming large, prosecutors denied and how Bulgaria remains at the end of the GDP tail in the EU

K Insights 5/03: Controversial changes to the media law were postponed, Eurohold wants to raise 100 mln euro on the stock exchange

Bulgarian e-commerce market approaching 1 billion euro

The sector is growing at a healthy pace, yet 2020 saw logistical bottlenecks

The day in 3 news: December was bad for business, e-commerce excluded, more vaccines are coming, and the President vetoed the new special prosecutor

How the pandemic doubled the business of Ozone.bg

The online retailer opened a new logistics center worth 4 mln euro, plans to build a second one, and has a new company under its belt

How Bulgaria let Covid-19 loose

After an ineffective first lockdown, the government sleepwalked into the second pandemic wave - with deadly consequences

Expressions of a captured state

Three stories of how rules are applied unevenly in Bulgaria

Retail Chains: Tasty Growth of 10%

All top 20 companies achieved a revenue growth' it is above average for nine of them

Fast Reads

Perestroika at Lukoil Bulgaria

Valentin Zlatev has been replaced after 20 years at the helm of the Russian company’s operations in the Balkan country

Pharmaceuticals: Double-digit growth once more

Drug sales are rising again, as are the revenues of the largest companies. Both indicators rise by 11%

Retail chains: Wave of new growth

On average, retail sales grew 10% for a second year in a row in 2017, while profits rose by 24%

Bulgaria's media-industrial complex

Bulgarian politicians helped create Delyan Peevski’s media empire, but now fall prey to its unrestrained influence and his demands

A New Image for Mr Peevski

A film production company is set to buy half of the newspaper business of the Bulgarian media mogul

WHICH ARE THE BULGARIAN MICRO, SMALL AND START-UP IT BUSINESSES?

COMPANIES TARGETING ONLY END USERS ARE A RARE CASE