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Bulgaria’s Informal Economy: 34.6% In the Shadows
More than half of the added value in sectors like hospitality, agriculture, and construction comes from undeclared income, according to a report by Kearney and Visa
The week: Why cities need problem-solving capabilities
The capability gap, Euro (still) on the horizon, More state aid for business
K100’s most dynamic companies: grain, asphalt, weapons and more
Revenues of the 50 fastest-growing companies up 166% on average in 2023
K100 2024: Stagnation after the boom for Bulgaria’s largest firms
The new annual edition of Capital 100 ranking shows that the revenues of the top 100 companies shrank by 14% last year after the boom in the energy sector in 2022. The star businesses of 2023 are arms, cars and solar
Germany's struggles reveal an uncomfortable truth about Bulgaria's economy
Structural problems affecting Bulgaria’s largest trading partner will affect local industries that fail to adapt and diversify their clients
IT Sector in Bulgaria grows 10% despite global slowdown
The revenue of the companies in the Digitalk 101 ranking for 2023 increased to almost BGN 9.3 billion
The week: The elusive recipe for anti-corruption
Anti-corruption is difficult everywhere, 79 regulatory seats for the taking (if we discount the Patriarch’s and the PM’s)
The biggest pharmaceutical companies: a duo joins the billion-dollar club
Two drug distributors - Sopharma Trading and Phoenix Pharma - crossed the BGN 1 billion mark for the first time in 2022
The week: It’s GERB’s election to lose. Again.
Who’s going to run the cities, is there a Recovery Plan at all, what is a Russian-born oligarch doing in Plovdiv
Bulgaria’s 100 largest companies: record revenue and profits for 2022
The Ukraine war has pushed the turnover of the companies in the K100 ranking to BGN 132 billion, or 60% up on the year before
K10: The best banks of 2022
Unicredit Bulbank ranks first in Capital’s ranking, displacing the other traditional champion DSK from the top
The biggest agricultural companies: Grain goes to space
Traders and producers of wheat, corn, sunflower grow revenue more than 54%
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
The Top 100 Bulgarian companies: Extreme growth
Capital Weekly’s 2022 ranking of the 100 largest companies in Bulgaria shows that giants’ earnings soared by 38% in 2021, with firms from the energy, fuels, grains and metals sectors at the helm
The week: Elections 2022: Pretend nothing’s happening; FDI down, caretaker Gov’t goes LNG
Parties lying low on big issues before vote, Energy Minister shifts stance on LNG and why do people from the "Yellow Cobblestones" cry?
Bulgaria: the country with the slowest borders in the EU
Traffic is growing, but Bulgaria lacks the necessary infrastructure and organization to handle it
The week: The private border of Bulgaria and the EU, are we still on track for the euro and a stellar year for banks (so far)
K Insights 03/06: what happened with the refugees
The unexpected digital champion of the state, how Zelensky saved Bulgaria’s government and flights to Skopje are in danger
Village life resuscitated, Zelensky finds fighting formula for our coalition and short-haul flights are in jeopardy