Danish Jysk and ECOPACK Bulgaria officially announced their investment plans in Sofia.
Jysk
Within two years, Danish furniture chain Jysk will build a new logistics centre near Sofia. The investment exceeds 100 million euros. The contractor is a Sofia-based construction company – Mix-Construction. According to Allan Kjærgaard, Jysk’s Executive Vice President Logistics, the hub near Sofia will significantly speed up the delivery to customers, reduce transport costs to stock the stores and will serve the stores in seven neighbouring countries in southeastern Europe – Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sofia was chosen as a location for the investment due to the availability of enough free space as well as the geographical location of the country in the Balkan region.
The distribution centre will have an area of about 80,000 sq m and will create 300 jobs at the end of 2018. Two high-rise buildings will be commissioned next to the centre by the third quarter of 2019, where the work will be done entirely by machine automation.
Danish Jysk has more than 2,300 stores in 41 countries around the world. Its annual turnover is about 2.9 billion euros and the company employs almost 20,000. In Bulgaria, the chain had 12 outlets until recently, and the 13th store opened on June 1 at the entrance of Sofia on the Hemus highway. Another store is to open soon, also in Sofia.
ECOPACK Bulgaria
Ecopack Bulgaria will invest 1.1 million levs in a new plant for sorting of plastics and paper in Sofia. Thereby, the company’s investments in Bulgaria exceeds 4 million levs
In 2016, Sofia-based Ecopack reported the recycling of 64% of the declared packagings /compared to a legally-set target of 60%/ of 1,226 companies operating in Bulgaria. This amounted to over 100,000 tonnes of waste last year.
