Inter Cars Bulgaria: The way to the top

The Polish company’s Bulgarian unit has become number one in the local auto parts market in ten years, reporting revenue growth of over 50% for 2021.

Top 5 furniture retailers’ turnover tops 0.5bn levs, online sales increase

Bulgarian producers’ output reached $600m in 2021

The day in 3 news: Sofia refuses to arm Kyiv; Dombrovskis rejects Bulgaria for eurozone in 2024; Radev meets Biden in Poland

WITTE Automotive Bulgaria to double production in Ruse

The company will invest 25 million euro in a new factory, which will open in the middle of 2024

The week: The public shaming of Sofia continues, Record wage growth, A slap from across the Danube

K Insights Weekly Newsletter 17/02

The week: Bulgaria’s favorite decade, the euro-effort is shot in the leg, and banks are doing great

The past still has power over us

Kaufland remains largest Bulgarian retailer for 12th consecutive year

The sector grew by 13% on average in 2021, with total sales reaching 10.7 billion levs

Schengen is shut, Bulgaria needs brain surgeon and which are the country’s biggest businesses

Gov’t mandate roulette kicks off, Boyko is the (old) Messi, K100 business ranking now in English

A hidden fight "for" and "against" euro adoption dogs Bulgaria

Vazrazhdane turned a draft analysis about the impact of Eurozone entry by the National Bank into an attack on Bulgaria's renewed efforts to adopt the common currency from 2024

The day in 3 news: No "concrete" threat to Bulgaria, says Defence Minister; Christmas bonus for pensioners; Jysk to open 6 new stores

Bulgaria tables another army modernization plan, but relies on allies to plug holes

Spanish aircraft and Italian ground troops to reinforce NATO’s flank in the country

The day in 3 news: EU finally passes first installment of funds; Russian hackers attack intelligence services; NPP again operates at full power

Monthly Startup News: Gov’t launches startup visas, Eleven introduces Unicorn Deal program, Coffee trading platform Almacena raises 3.5 mln euro

Here’s what happened in Bulgaria’s startup ecosystem in October

The day in 3 news: No let-up in Bulgaria’s inflation; WCC rejects any deal with GERB; Gas storage in Europe is almost full

Single-bid tenders: how Bulgarian municipalities distribute money

58% of local government tenders and almost 65% of the money, or nearly half a billion levs, are distributed through controversial auctions

Christophe Leclercq: Medias are an army of dwarfs, facing a world duopoly: Meta (Facebook) and Alphabet (Google)

The founder of the EURACTIV Media Network & Chair of Europe’s MediaLab spoke with Capital on the new European Media Freedom Act

Day in 3 news: Gazprom resupply inevitable, says caretaker gov’t; Ukraine taps more Bulgarian arms; Mitrofanova: Russian gas should be paid for in rubles

The Bulgarian startup ecosystem is losing momentum

The country has built a good reputation on account of its digital infrastructure, low costs and technical talent, but it’s still being overtaken

Is Gazprom back on the agenda?

Bulgaria enters august with the lowest gas storage levels in the EU

Turning waste plastic into energy

A UK company wants to build an installation for production of electricity and hydrogen in the town of Simitli, Bulgaria