Extrapack adding two new plants

The Veliko Tarnovo-based packaging producer is expanding its capacity for paper packaging and cardboard boxes

Bulgarian flexible packaging manufacturer Plastchim-T acquires Italian peer Manucor

The price of the deal is not disclosed but calculations show it tops 50 million euro

First Investment Bank up for sale - sources

UniCredit Bulbank and Postbank vie to acquire Bulgaria’s fifth largest lender

The week: Lessons in change from Philadelphia, Dirty deeds done dirt cheap, Fibank is for sale

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K10: The Best Banks of 2023

UniCredit Bulbank again leads the Capital Weekly’s ranking of banks in Bulgaria, UBB is now the largest bank, DSK reports record profit

DSK, UniCredit Bulbank Plan to Distribute Over 1 Billion Levs in Dividends

Most of the 3.4 billion levs (1.7 billion euro) profit reported by the banking sector for 2023 will be reinvested

The day in 3 news: Vassilev confident of Eurozone entry in 2025; Peevski is MRFs co-leader; Unicredit Bulbank offers funds of global asset managers

Euphoria Fading on Bulgaria's Housing Market

After peaking in 2021-2022, transactions and, construction permits are now declining, and price growth is slowing down

The day in 3 news: Household loan increases in 6 months; GERB to review its participation in ruling coalition; Sofia will hand out free solar panels

The week: Should you trust the Bulgarian public, Zelensky wins a face-off with Radev, and gets some nuclear reactors

Cupffee's waffle coffee cups raise EUR 1.8 m

The Plovdiv-based manufacturer of edible cups works with global clients including Lavazza, Bosch and Lidl

K10: The best banks of 2022

Unicredit Bulbank ranks first in Capital’s ranking, displacing the other traditional champion DSK from the top

The week: Are parties going to agree on anything, the Azeri gas gambit and BNB cools down crediting

Coalition with GERB? Don’t look at what he says, look at what they do

The day in 3 news: 1bn telecom deal with Saudis; DPS ‘wins too big’ in some areas; Unicredit gets top banking spot

The day in 3 news: Borissov visits Radev; Mutual funds get more investments; ContourGlobal has new director

Bulgarian banks’ profit hits record 2 billion levs in 2022

The banking sector posts the strongest growth in all segments since the global crisis

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

The week: The two types of entrepreneurs, How Nexo affected politics, Bulgaria cashes in on the markets

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The top ten owners of office buildings in Sofia

They own 600 thousand square meters of offices in Sofia or half of the total available 1.24 million square meters of class A areas in the capital.

The week: Numbers and why we should love them, elections and census results are out and Schengen maybe?

K insights 07/10: And I guess that’s why they call it the (post-election) blues