site.btaBulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Presents Its Annual Awards

The Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) present its 30th annual awards on Tuesday. The prize - a bronze statuette of Hermes by sculptor Stavri Kalinov, a plaque and certificate, were awarded to businesses, ambassadors, trade representatives, media organizations and journalists.

The awarded companies in the BCCI Top 100 were honoured for their good work and the results achieved during the year, the ambassadors and trade representatives - for their contribution to the development of diplomatic and economic relations between Bulgaria and their countries, and the media organizations and journalists for their coverage of the positions of the BCCI and its members on current economic issues.

Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov, Parliament Chair Rosen Zhelyazkov and BCCI President Tsvetan Simeonov congratulated the winners and presented the awards.

BTA was a media partner of the event.

In his opening remarks at the ceremony, Prime Minister Denkov said that the BCCI is a very important element of the country's development. He added that he had listened carefully to the words of the BCCI President, Tsvetan Simeonov, to see if they speak the same language. "I saw that in two main directions we have the same goals. One is how to make the transition from a cheap labour economy to a high value added economy. It is clear that we need effort and investment, which is our common task. The other thing where we agree is that if we want to be successful, we need to fully integrate into the European world with the European rules," the Prime Minister said. 

He said that "there is no reason to be much dissatisfied this year". "The world is in a very difficult situation, but Bulgaria has relatively good growth rates, investment has increased, which is a result of our common efforts," he added. He said that the government highly respects the BCCI as partner. "Together we will discuss the next steps to be taken," he said.

The winners

A1 Bulgaria won in the category Top 100 large enterprises ranked by sales , profit and return on sales, return on assets and return on equity for the last financial year;

Geotechmin won in the category Top 100 large enterprises ranked by return on assets and return on equity;

AES Maritsa Iztok I won in the category Top 100 medium-sized enterprises ranked by sales revenue, profit and return on sales revenue, return on assets and return on equity for the last financial year;

Telelink Business Services Group won in the category of Top 100 small enterprises ranked by sales, profit and return on sales revenue, return on assets and return on equity for the last fiscal year;

Iskar Service won in the category Top 100 microenterprises ranked by sales, profit, and profitability of sales revenue, profitability of assets and return on equity for the last financial year;

The Bulgarian Association of Work, Health, Safety won in the category Branch Organizations - for contribution to the achievement of the goals and objectives of the BCCI;

The Vratsa Chamber of Commerce and Industry won in the category Regional Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the BCCI system - for contribution to the achievement of the goals and objectives of BCCI;

 Italian Ambassador to Bulgaria Giuseppina Zarra was awarded for contribution to the development of economic relations between the two countries and to the achievement of the goals and objectives of BCCI;

The award for trade representative went to Dimitrios Michas, Minister Plenipotentiary for Economic and Commercial Affairs at the Greek Embassy in Bulgaria;

In the Media Organization category, the Bulgarian National Television was awarded for its objective coverage of the work of BCCI;

In the Journalist category, Lora Indzhova of Nova TV received an award for her objective coverage of the positions of BCCI and its members.