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The biggest employers: strong wage growth, stagnant hiring
The ranking of the top 200 companies by staff for 2023 shows layoffs in the automotive, bicycle and call center sectors, while IT and supermarket chains keep hiring

The week: Why Nations Fail in football and elections
One night in Belfast, What is wrong with the Air Force, Varna ex-mayor is sinking

Industrial cooldown, slower business growth and less VAT collected: 2023 at a glance
Global events hit the financial performance of public companies, shrink factory production and effectively cut down state revenue

Largest employers: IT and arms industry booming despite workforce shortage
With a staff of more than 230,000 in total, the 100 biggest companies employ one in ten workers in Bulgaria

Sick leave in Bulgaria: Everybody lies
The budgetary cost of paying out sick leave is rising fast but the ruling GERB party tried to solve the problem boorishly and with no solid arguments

With its head buried in the coal
Bulgaria is the only EU Member State with a significant coal sector that hasn’t begun restructuring

The death of once mighty Bulgartabac
The bulgarian tobacco holding controlled by Delyan Peevski has closed all production units but the authorities see no problem


The biggest employers: Labor shortage weighs
The one hundred companies with the highest number of employees created over 8,500 new jobs last year. Export industries led the rise again but domestically oriented companies also reported growth.