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Bulgaria’s Top 50 Retailers in 2022: Inflation spurs turnovers
Kaufland remains leader, while Lidl approaches the top with a turnover of nearly 2 billion levs

The week: The black-hole constellation
New mayors are in - money is out, who owns the Interior Minister and more chess champions

The biggest construction companies: boom in real estate, slump in road building
The top 40 companies have an average revenue growth of just 4%, unlike all other thriving sectors

The end of fuel exports to Ukraine
The Ukrainian authorities have blacklisted locations such as Burgas, Varna, Plovdiv and Byala. Since early November, the Insa Oil base in Belozem has also been included in the document

Latecoere’s Bulgarian plant to become European hub for Airbus A320 door assembly
The output of the Plovdiv-based facility will double, now that the entire program has been transferred from the Czech Republic

Protests, corruption and hiding from fans: Bulgaria’s football reaches a boiling point
Bulgarian football is going down for years, but the exclamation point is now

The biggest agricultural companies: In the fields of war
Bulgarian grain growers and retailers earned higher revenues and profits in 2022, but face tough seasons ahead

The week: Varna’s promise, Sofia’s divide, WCC's suspicious Brussels move, BG Football's dictator moment
K insights newsletter: 10.11

Local elections, round 2: Terziev in knife edge Sofia victory, GERB’s regional hegemony cracks
Record-low turnout, a very colorful picture across the country and a vengeful Borissov

The week: No country for new dogs
What Plovdiv teaches us about Bulgaria, 50 Shades of grey money, and some horror (thankfully, on the screen)

Local elections, round 1: GERB loses Sofia, keeps Burgas and draws in Plovdiv and Varna
The ballot was marred by a fabricated scandal that eliminated machine voting

The week: The mystery of the Bulgarian housing market
The (very) strange Bulgarian housing market, a not so strange election and a bag of coke

KInsights’ local election guide: What to watch out for
The upcoming vote will be a test for established and rising parties alike, and might lead to redistribution of power at national level

Bulgarian housing prices soar as Eurozone ones fall for the first time in years
Records double-digit growth of prices fueled by a housing loan boom meets plummeting demand

Top earners of 2022
Metals, chemicals, energy, weapons and a bit of gambling business: an unsurprising mix during a year marked by Russia's war on Ukraine

The week: The day of the Second Payment has arrived
One EU instrument which actually works, Wars bring the Balkans closer, The 6 centers of Bulgaria