Fruit and vegetables: Top firms’ incomes rise, yet problems remain

In 2022, the total revenues of the 10 largest companies in the sector exceeded 95 million levs

Bulgaria’s new factories in 2023: Part II (The North)

Compared to previous years, projects are now equally distributed between southern and northern Bulgaria.

Glass maker Rubin invests more than 210 million levs in large-scale modernization project

The Pleven-based plant already has two new furnaces and is building a third one in a bid to attract large Western customers

The biggest software companies in Bulgaria

The top 50 tech companies by revenue experienced significant growth, more suited to startups

Packaging giant Smurfit Kappa to acquire third plant in Bulgaria

The Irish company will buy a part of the business of Shumen-based Artemis

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

The week: A genuinely bold idea, cross-party ‘friendship’ fizzles out, a ‘superhero’ targeted by evildoers

Let’s dream big

Rollplast completes 110 million levs window plant

The company invested 30 million levs in the last stage of the project in Kostinbrod

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

Sofia’s flips over gas supplies show how fraught energy policy is after defying Moscow

After an inexplicable postponement, the caretaker gov’t and Bulgargaz finally open bids for short- and long-term LNG deliveries

Will the caretaker gov’t start a U-turn on Russia?

On its second day in office, the new Bulgarian cabinet announced a course towards "containment of the chaos and destruction" in the energy sector. This might well translate as a pivot to Moscow

The week: A bridge worth paying for, Aurubis is at the top again and out with the hawks, in with the doves

How important is Russian gas to Bulgaria and what are the alternatives?

The country can ensure complete independence from Russian supplies within this year and it will not be that difficult

Winter is coming, but natural gas is not: what is going on in Bulgaria?

In July, the energy regulator adopted the highest natural gas price so far this year for the regulated market

KInsights' Energy Report: Dashboard

Four graphs that show the long-term trends in the Bulgarian energy sector

An Indian tale about Bulgarian internet

Nikolay Gorchilov, Victor Frances and Plamen Petkov introduce the Bulgarian internet model to India through the provider Excitel, which already has over half a million subscribers

Bulgaria can manage without Russian gas, but will have to pay up for it

Gazprom halts gas deliveries to Bulgaria, which is almost 100% dependent on imports from Russia. Imports from Romania and Greece can substitute it, but at a cost

The week: First industrial strike in 7 years, Special courts closed down, Bulgarian MIT opens-up

K Insights 15/04: One more thing to worry about this year, and at least two things to be hopeful about

The week: The end of golden passports, a new beginning for trains, and the best place in Europe for romance and wine

We’re not selling citizenship anymore, we’re buying: trains, batteries and a house in Barcelona?

Five Bulgarian cities considering introduction of low-emission zones

Sofia plans to introduce low-emission zones in December 2022.