The Stara Zagora Region is the perfect place for your investment. Join the many foreign investors who have found success with Stara Zagora's business community. Brewinvest, a Greek Company and a division of Heineken, is the principal owner of Zagorka brewery; IKEA, a Swedish company, has invested in Sredna Gora furniture manufacturing to provide their Western furniture superstores with fine Bulgarian craftsmanship; American investors have invested in two food processing companies - Palhutev Honey and Ken meat processors. Agro-center Farmer 2000 , the largest agricultural machinery sales and service point in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, is the result of a successful Israeli investment. Shell Oil has entered the Region with several service stations. A new hypermarket from the Metro chain is going to be built in the vicinities of Stara Zagora, MacDonalds has announced its intention to come in the city. The Hungarian Videoton intends to make considerable investments in the electronics giant DZU. At this time the Maritza-East Complex is the most attractive area for foreign investments related to coal mining and electrical power generation. Present investors include the German RWE AG and the American Entergy Group . Also, Volkswagen-Turkey recently announced its intention to invest in Kazanlak. The privatization process in the Region is near completion. Progress is being made in the restructuring and modernization of privatized companies, which are seeking investments and new markets. Bulgaria's rapid reforms favorable to foreign investors and the new opportunities for joint ventures make this the right time to invest.

SUPPORTIVE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TOGETHER

The Stara Zagora business community has an active support structure with organizations such as the Regional Economic Development Agency , Chamber of Commerce and Industry hosting a new Euro-Info Center , Bulgarian Industrial Association , Thracian University , Bulgarian-German Training Center and Rotary Club . These organizations and others share a unique cooperative spirit that ensures businesses an enthusiastic concerted effort in their support. There are specific funding programs and a developed network of banks designed to benefit the foreign investor, including Bulbank, United Bulgarian Bank, DSK Bank, Express Bank, First Investment Bank and others.

BULGARIAN FOREIGN INVESTMENT AGENCY

The Regional Economic Development Agency in Stara Zagora is a representative of the Foreign Investment Agency offering the potential investor it's consultant services in such areas as investment opportunities, analysis by sector, legal aspects, information database, government interaction .

INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

The Region will usher in a bright economic future with the following projects recently completed or in development: the Bulgarian-German Wholesale Market for Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers ; the Transportation Corridor Development Project through Stara Planina providing rapid access to the northern route of the international corridor; the recently completed Bulgarian-American Gasification Project with a major gas pipeline, from Russia, supplying Stara Zagora with an inexpensive form of energy; and the digital telephone network providing enhanced communication standards

See our investment projects.