{"id":22292,"date":"2020-01-06T18:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=22292"},"modified":"2020-01-06T18:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T16:36:33","slug":"invest-sofia-presented-sofias-business-environment-german-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/invest-sofia-presented-sofias-business-environment-german-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Invest Sofia Presented Sofia\u2019s Business Environment to German Investors\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22293 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/viber_image_2019-12-05_19-53-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/viber_image_2019-12-05_19-53-09.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/viber_image_2019-12-05_19-53-09-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/viber_image_2019-12-05_19-53-09-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/viber_image_2019-12-05_19-53-09-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/viber_image_2019-12-05_19-53-09-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/viber_image_2019-12-05_19-53-09-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/viber_image_2019-12-05_19-53-09-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/viber_image_2019-12-05_19-53-09-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/>Mr. Vladimir Danailov, CEO of Sofia Investment Agency, presented the business environment in the city, the conditions for starting a business, the fastest growing sectors, the human capital and the quality of life in Sofia in front of a German delegation. He also introduced the major German companies already present with their business in Sofia including Lufthansa Technik, Behr Hella, Kaufland, Bosch, DHL, ProSiebenSat.1, Festo, Lidl and others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The delegation featured both companies planning to expand their business in Bulgaria, as well as those intending to invest in the country for the first time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The representatives of the German business also met with the Minister of Economy Mr. Emil Karanikolov, Bulgaria\u2019s Prime Minister Mr. Boyko Borisov and the President Mr. Rumen Radev.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The delegation was organised by the Eastern Commission of the German Economy with the assistance of the German-Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce, which confirmed the news that <\/span><b>Commerzbank AG plans to build a large IT centre in Bulgaria next year<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Initially, 400 jobs will be created for highly qualified IT professionals, with the intention to increase their number to 600.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the meetings in Sofia, it became clear that German investors are interested in the areas of transport infrastructure, water and waste management, mechanical engineering, e-health, the food and banking industries<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mr. Vladimir Danailov, CEO of Sofia Investment Agency, presented the business environment in the city, the conditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22292","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\/22292","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=22292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}