List of companies of Bulgaria
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This is a list of notable companies based in Bulgaria
, organized by industry.
For further information on Bulgarian company types and abbreviations, see Business entity in Bulgaria.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
, organized by industry.
For further information on Bulgarian company types and abbreviations, see Business entity in Bulgaria.
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- Actavis BulgariaActavisActavis is an international generic pharmaceutical company based in Iceland that was founded in 1956 as Pharmaco. Listed on the Icelandic Stock Exchange until 2007, it was taken private by Novator Partners, an investment vehicle of the chairman Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson.In the late 1990s,...
- pharmaceuticals - Air VIAAir ViaAir VIA is a charter airline based in Varna, Bulgaria, operating charter flights on behalf of the largest European tour operators, most of them from a broad range of European destinations into Varna Airport and Burgas Airport, as well wet lease subservices....
- charter airline - Albena ADAlbenaAlbena is a major Black Sea resort in northeastern Bulgaria, situated 12 km from Balchik and 30 km from Varna. Albena is served by the international airport of Varna....
- tourism and hospitality - ArmimexArmimexArmimex was a state–owned Bulgarian company with a full license for export, import and re–export of all types of weapons, ammunition and special products for the army and the police....
- arms and weaponry export - Arsenal ADArsenal ADArsenal AD is a Bulgarian joint-stock company based in Kazanlak, engaged primarily in the manufacture of firearms and military equipment. It is Bulgaria's oldest arms supplier.- History :...
- military equipment manufacture - Asarel MedetAsarel MedetAsarel Medet is an enormous copper extracting and processing factory located at 11 km to the northwest of the town of Panagyurishte in the Pazardzhik Province, Bulgaria. It consists of two main factories: Medet which operates from 1964 and Asarel which began operation in 1989...
- copper extraction and processing - Avgusta Mebel AD - produces furniture of various types of solid wood
- Aurubis BulgariaPirdop copper smelter and refineryPirdop copper smelter and refinery is the biggest facility for smelting and refining of copper in South-Eastern Europe. The factory is situated between the towns of Pirdop and Zlatitsa in the Sofia Province, western Bulgaria...
- copper smelting - BalkanstroyBalkanstroyBalkanstroy is one of the major construction companies in Bulgaria. It is owned by Nikolay Kaloyanov, Kostadin Kaloyanov, and Yordan Kanazirev....
- engineering and construction - BDZ Bulgarian State Railways - passenger and freight rail transport
- Biovet - pharmaceuticals
- BEH EADBulgarian Energy Holding EADBulgarian Energy Holding EAD is a state owned energy holding company in Bulgaria. It was incorporated on 18 September 2008 after renaming Bulgargaz Holding EAD...
- energy, gas and nuclear power - BH AirBH AirBH Air Ltd., or Balkan Holidays Airlines, is an airline headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is a branch of tour operator Balkan Holidays International and as such offers charter flights to the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Germany, Israel and Switzerland, as well as ad hoc charters to other...
- passenger air transport - Bulgaria AirBulgaria AirBulgaria Air , is the flag carrier airline of Bulgaria, with its head office on the grounds of Sofia Airport in Sofia. The company is owned by Chimimport Inc and is a leader in terms of market share...
- passenger and freight air transport - Bulgarian PostsBulgarian PostsThe Bulgarian Posts are the national postal service of Bulgaria. The company was founded after the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule, as the Russians handed all the post and telegraph offices to the newly-restored Bulgarian state on 14 May 1879...
- postal and courier services - BulgartabacBulgartabacBulgartabac Holding Group AD or simply Bulgartabac is a Bulgarian tobacco holding company. Established in 1947 and based in the capital Sofia, it includes 11 joint-stock subsidiary companies in the tobacco-growing regions of the country....
- tobacco products manufacture - Bulyard Shipbuilding Industry EAD - the largest shipbuilding enterprise in Bulgaria
- ChimimportChimimportChimimport AD is one of the largest Bulgarian holding companies. After the report of the Minister of Trade and Food Supplies dated 24th March 1947, the Council of Ministers on their meeting dated 4th April 1947 with Ordinance 7 – Protocol 50, it established the State Trade Company under the name of...
- trade, finance and investment - Comfort Ltd - company, specialized in the field of investment, design and construction
- Crytek Black Sea - video and computer games development
- Cumerio MedCumerio MedCumerio Med is Bulgaria's largest copper smelting company producing around 240,000 tonnes of smelted copper and around 60,000 tonnes of copper cathodes each year. In 1997 the company was sold to Cumerio a company from Belgium for US$ 80 million but in 2007 the company was bought by German company...
- copper smelting - Datecs - computer software and retail hardware
- Delfin-3 - computer software, networks and communications
- EconomediaEconomediaEconomedia is the biggest publisher of business media in Bulgaria. It is mainly known for publishing the influential weekly Capital and the business-oriented daily Dnevnik. Majority owner of Economedia is Ivo Prokopiev.- External links :*...
- media and publishing - ELDOMINVEST - biggest independent manufacturer of water heaters in Central and South-Eastern Europe
- ESD Bulgaria Ltd - CNC Technologies and Automation
- Enemona - energy, engineering and construction
- EurofootballEurofootballEurofootball is the first private Bulgarian bookmaker, as well as the country's largest. It began operating on 6 October 1990 and was officially registered in 1993, officially receiving a license on 20 October the same year. The first nation-wide draw was performed on 21 August 1993...
- sports betting and bookmaking - First Investment BankFirst Investment BankFirst Investment Bank , founded on 8 October 1993, is the seventh largest Bulgarian bank . The bank is the mother bank of a financial group on the Balkans - it has a branch in Albania with 10 offices, one in Cyprus, as well as a subsidiary bank in Macedonia...
- banking - Frende - translations
- Glavbolgarstroy - engineering and construction
- GlobulGloBulGLOBUL is the second-largest Bulgarian GSM/UMTS operator. The company was founded in 2001 and is 100% owned by Greek telecommunications corporation Cosmote, which is active in four Balkan countries: Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania...
- telecommunications - Haemimont GamesHaemimont GamesHaemimont Games is a Bulgarian video game developer founded in September 1997 and based in Sofia. The company primarily concentrates on producing medieval and ancient history strategy games and has about 50 employees, making it Bulgaria's largest video game developer.-Games:-External links:* * *...
- video and computer games development - Holding Roads - engineering and construction
- Huvepharma - pharmaceuticals
- Italcementi Group Bulgaria - cement production
- KintexKintex (Bulgaria)Kintex is a Bulgarian state-owned company, founded in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1965.Until 1992 essentially an arm of the Bulgarian Communist Party's secret service, the Committee for State Security, Kintex was an import-export corporation, which controlled the sale of everything from cigarettes to heavy...
- arms and weaponry export - KraftKraftKraft has more than one meaning:* Kraft Foods, the world's third largest food and beverage company by revenue* Kraft process, a paper pulp production method* Kraft paper, paper produced by the Kraft process* Kraft , a video game character...
Foods Bulgaria - food manufacture - Kremikovtzi ADKremikovtzi ADKremikovtzi AD is Bulgaria's largest metalworking company. The construction of its facilities began on 5 November 1960 and the first production capacities were put into operation in 1963 to produce cast iron and coke, with production extending to cover other areas in the 1960s and 1970s...
- metal and steelworks - Liebherr BulgariaLiebherr* The Liebherr Group, a German manufacturing complex established in 1949 by Hans Liebherr* Liebherr Grazer AK* Liebherr T 282B, an off- highway, ultra class, rigid frame, two- axle, diesel/electricappointed...
- refrigerators - Litex Motors Corporation - car production
- M+S Hydraulic - manufacture of hydraulic components
- MobiltelMobiltelMobiltel , commonly known as M-Tel , is the first and largest GSM mobile phone operator in Bulgaria. M-Tel was founded in March 1994 by Mr...
- telecommunications - Monbat - automotive, industrial and military spec batteries
- MTG-DOLPHIN PLC - ship repair and ship building yard
- NavibulgarNavibulgarNavibulgar is a Bulgarian shipping company, the largest in the country, with a fleet of 60 vessels: 46 bulk carriers, 9 container vessels, 5 tanker and chemical vessels and 10 combined tonnage vessels....
- shipping company - Neftochim - oil refining, liquid fuels, petrochemicals and polymers
- NEK EADNEK EADNatsionalna Elektricheska Kompania NEK is the Bulgarian national electricity distributing company also being the second largest company in Bulgaria...
- energy distribution - Neochim - chemicals manufacture
- NeterraNeterraNeterra is a Bulgarian operator for complex telecommunications services and projects in Southeast Europe. The company is established as the first alternative operator of land and satellite stations in Bulgaria...
- telecommunications - NetinfoNetInfoNetInfo is the system configuration database in NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X versions up through Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger". NetInfo replaces most of the Unix system configuration files, though they are still present for running the machine in single user mode; most Unix APIs wrap around NetInfo instead...
- Internet services - Odessos Ship Repair Yard - ship repairs
- OntotextOntotextOntotext is a Bulgarian software company headquartered in Sofia. It is the semantic technology branch of . Its main domain of activity is the development of software products and solutions based on the Semantic Web languages and standards, in particular RDF, OWL and SPARQL.- Co-developer :*Open...
- software development - Orgachim - chemicals and paints manufacture
- OZK - lead and zinc
- Petrol ADPetrol ADPetrol AD is a Bulgarian oil distributing company which has 470 petrol stations, 80 petrol depots and 3 petrol port terminals throughout the country. The company was privatised in 1999....
- oil distribution - Planex Holding - consisting of ten companies with business in construction works and investments
- Prista OilPrista OilPrista Oil is a Bulgarian company headquartered in the city of Rousse and mainly engaged in the production of 150 kinds of motor oils and industrial lubricants, as well as their distribution, transport and storage, cleaning petroleum pollution and the production and recycling of car batteries.The...
- motor oils and industrial lubricants - Socotab - tobacco leaf manufacture
- Sopharma - pharmaceuticals
- Sparky Eltos - consumer durables
- Stilmet - aluminum products
- Stomana - metal and steelworks
- TechnomarketTechnomarketTechnomarket is a Bulgarian retailer of consumer electronics that operates stores in Bulgaria, Kosovo, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Slovakia, Montenegro and Romania....
- retail, consumer electronics - TEREMTEREMTEREM is a Bulgarian arms supplier for the Bulgarian armed forces. It is also engaged with repairing military aircraft and vehicles, as well as their components. It is partly responsible for the local production of APCs and IFVs, radio equipment and spare parts for different types of machinery....
- arms and weaponry manufacture - Titan Cement Group - cement production
- Trace Group - engineering and construction
- VMZ - arms and weaponry manufacture
- VRZ KarlovoVRZ KarlovoVagono-remonten zavod Karlovo , mostly known as VRZ Karlovo, PLC. , was established in 1964 in Karlovo with principal business activities in repairs of railway cars and production of spare parts...
- railway cars and equipment - WalltopiaWalltopiaWalltopia AD is a Bulgarian privately-owned company that specializes in the design, engineering and manufacture of climbing walls, holds and other equipment. It was founded in 1996 and has since established offices across the globe....
- climbing walls and equipment - Vitta FoodsVitta FoodsVitta Foods is a company specialized in manufacturing and distribution of frozen products made of puff pastry and sheets of filo pastry in eco paper plates, founded in 2006 as a part of...
- frozen food and pastries - Vivacom - telecommunications
- XeniumXeniumXenium is a bulgarian internet company, founded in 2007 by Stanislav Bozhkov, Yavor Ivanov and NetInfo.Xenium became famous with its social media network Svejo.net which was the first large social bookmarking site in Bulgaria....
- software development and internet services - ZAHARNI ZAVODI JSC - Manufacturing of confectionery
- ZMM Bulgaria Holding AD - producing metal cutting machines