{"id":15372,"date":"2019-01-07T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T06:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=15372"},"modified":"2019-01-07T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T06:58:44","slug":"what-do-bulgarian-companies-expect-from-the-business-environment-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/what-do-bulgarian-companies-expect-from-the-business-environment-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Bulgarian Companies Expect from the Business Environment in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15287 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Eurochambers-Economic-Survey-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Eurochambers-Economic-Survey-2019.jpg 812w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Eurochambers-Economic-Survey-2019-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Eurochambers-Economic-Survey-2019-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Eurochambers-Economic-Survey-2019-600x307.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Eurochambers-Economic-Survey-2019-260x133.jpg 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Eurochambers-Economic-Survey-2019-50x26.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Eurochambers-Economic-Survey-2019-146x75.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>A total of 54% of the Bulgarian companies expect an improvement in the business climate in 2019, and they are mainly <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">concerned <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about the shortage of qualified staff and the prices of energy and raw materials, according to a survey of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI). The survey is part of a large-scale European Economic Survey<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> EES 2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0involving more than 45 000 companies from 26 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results for Bulgaria are <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">based on<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the opinion of 504 companies from all sectors <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the country<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The company managers have shared their expectations <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">regarding <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the biggest challenges and difficulties, as well as the expected earnings, employment, investment and the business climate in general. The Bulgarian companies have positive expectations for 2019, but they are lower compared to 2018, when 63% of the companies expected an improvement in the business climate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The worst fear of the companies in Bulgaria is that they will face great difficulty in finding employees with the necessary profile and skills. Furthermore, they are worried about domestic demand revenues and energy and raw material prices. The results for Europe as a whole are similar. In the overall results, the greatest concern is labor costs, followed by the lack of qualified staff and domestic demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of the other indicators, Bulgaria ranks among all 26 countries in the survey as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 15<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in terms of positive expectations <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sales revenue in the country<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 13<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in terms of positive expectations <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sales revenue at foreign markets<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 13<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in terms of employment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 11<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in terms of investments<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 8<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in terms of positive expectations for the business climate as a whole<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main findings and link to the full report of the 26<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Economic Survey in Europe of Eurochambers are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobusiness.bcci.bg\/content\/file\/ECH_PressRelease_EES2019_21-11-18-2018-00265-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bulgaria participates in the survey for the 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> time. The BCCI report is published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcci.bg\/resources\/files\/EES_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 54% of the Bulgarian companies expect an improvement in the business climate in 2019, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15372","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=15372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}