{"id":14567,"date":"2018-11-13T19:43:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=14567"},"modified":"2018-11-13T19:46:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:46:47","slug":"sia-presents-sofias-investment-environment-at-the-second-lebanon-bulgarian-business-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/sia-presents-sofias-investment-environment-at-the-second-lebanon-bulgarian-business-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"SIA Presents Sofia\u2019s Investment Environment at the Second Lebanon-Bulgarian Business Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14563 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181112_115401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181112_115401.jpg 4608w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181112_115401-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181112_115401-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181112_115401-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181112_115401-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181112_115401-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181112_115401-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181112_115401-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/>Vladimir Danailov, CEO of Sofia Investment Agency, presented the business environment in Sofia and current sectoral data during the Second Lebanon-Bulgarian Business Forum, held on November 12 at Intercontinental Hotel in Sofia. The Forum was organized by the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), the Lebanon-Bulgarian Business Council, the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of Beirut and Mount Lebanon, and with the support of the Lebanese Embassy in Sofia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the event, Vladimir Danailov presented the investment opportunities in the capital to representatives of large enterprises, state and private sector, the chairmen of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Beirut, Tripoli, Saida, executives of the Lebanese Investment Agency, the Association of Lebanese Industrialists, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The official guests of the event included H. E. Toufic Jaber, Ambassador of Lebanon in the Republic of Bulgaria, as well as Mr. Ahmed Aladin, chairman of the Lebanon-Bulgarian Business Council and organizer of the Second Lebanon-Bulgarian Business Forum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 80 business representatives from both countries attended the business meetings. The Bulgarian companies had the opportunity to meet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcci.bg\/resources\/files\/List-Lebanon12.11_.2018_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">representatives of the Lebanese business<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the sectors of construction and construction machinery, real estate, food industry and supermarkets, financial and investment brokerage, consultancy services, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, IT and software development, textile, equipment, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to data of the BCCI, the trade between the two countries increased by 56% in 2017. More than 300 companies with Lebanese capital are registered in the Chamber and a total of 95 Lebanese companies have registered trade representation offices in Bulgaria.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Vladimir Danailov, CEO of Sofia Investment Agency, presented the business environment in Sofia and current sectoral data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}