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

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

Business meets government for the 17th time: what’s next for Bulgaria in 2024
Joining the Eurozone by the end of 2025 is "quite realistic," while the rotation cabinet might last more than 18 months, PM Nikolay Denkov told the conference organized by Capital

Bulgaria posts 780 mln levs budget gap at end-September
Lower imports dent VAT revenues, extra spending is allocated to agriculture

The week: Bulgaria's coal reckoning - this is not the 80's
Why Stara Zagora is no Yorkshire, what the hell is happening on the housing market and a Bright Mind

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

Why investment activity in Bulgaria is so slow
Low investment rates limit the country’s long-term potential for economic growth

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

Bulgarian economy losing steam
GDP growth stands at 1.8% y/y in the second quarter, with consumption remaining the primary driver

Immigration instead of integration: how the Roma left Bulgaria (part I)
Between 40 and 50% of the country's Roma community now work abroad, bringing money into the country - but the state does not care

Bulgarian companies’ revenues surge 34% in 2022
The turnover of the top 100 companies in Capital Weekly’s new annual ranking hits 132 billion levs

Build the damn roads. Build the damn railways. Do something, for Christ’s sake
Build the roads, search for gas in the sea, a Ukrainian hit-list and Lukoil is in for some trouble

Webit’s void checks
Of five companies awarded BGN 1 million each in the Founder's Games of the Webit Investment Network a year ago, only one received an actual investment

Frans Timmermans: Мiners are extremely valuable for the energy transition
The "father of the Green Deal" and Vice-President of the European Commission says that the earlier Bulgaria moves away from coal, the more successful it will be in its green transformation

Bulgarian economy: the start of a slowdown
The main growth drivers reached an inflection point in Q1 2023