The Trade Register of BCCI is a unified one for the entire country. To facilitate the companies, the Chamber has appointed its representatives in the 27 regional chambers of commerce and industry who collect and process on the spot the necessary documents for registration and then in its name validate certificates of origin, export invoices, and other foreign trade documents.
| 1. | Distribution by type of company: | ||
| Private merchants | - | 49.2% | |
| Unlimited partnerships | - | 3% | |
| Private limited companies | - | 27% | |
| Single - person private limited companies | - | 14.5% | |
| Public limited companies | - | 4% | |
| Single - person public limited companies | - | 0.8% | |
| Branches | - | 0.4% | |
| Holdings | - | 0.1% | |
| Cooperatives | - | 0.8% | |
| Societies | - | 0.1% | |
| Other | - | 0.1% | |
| 2. | Distribution by prevailing form of ownership: | ||
| State and municipal ownership | - | 2.87% | |
| Private ownership | - | 97.2% | |
| 3. | Distribution by area of activity: | ||
| production - 10,3% | |||
| Agriculture | - | 35.3% | |
| Textile industry | - | 35,3% | |
| Food industry | - | 20.2% | |
| Pharmaceutical industry | - | 4.6% | |
| Perfumery and cosmetics | - | 4,6% | |
| trade – 57,8% | |||
| Food industry | - | 39% | |
| Textile and knitwear | - | 27.1% | |
| Agriculture | - | 14.2% | |
| Products of the light industry | - | 8.8% | |
| Pharmaceutical products | - | 5.4% | |
| Perfumery and cosmetics | - | 5.5% | |
| services - 31,9 % | |||
| Transport and forwarding activity | - | 62.8% | |
| Building | - | 14.3% | |
| Tourism | - | 22.9% | |
| 4. | Distribution by number of employees: | ||
| Microenterprises | - | 87.5% | |
| Small enterprises | - | 8.3% | |
| Medium-sized enterprises | - | 1.6% | |
| Big enterprises | - | 2.6% | |
| 5. | Distribution by foreign participation: | ||
| The companies with a foreign participation account for about 20 % of the total number of BCCI members. | |||
| The following classification of the first 15 countries can be made: | |||
| Turkey | - | 1711 | |
| Greece | - | 942 |
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| Russian Federation | - | 548 |
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| Italy | - | 511 |
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| Germany | - | 282 |
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| Syria | - | 258 |
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| Yugoslavia | - | 251 |
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| Lebanon | - | 235 |
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| China | - | 229 |
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| Ukraine | - | 187 |
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| Austria | - | 119 |
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| Macedonia | - | 94 |
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| The Netherlands | - | 93 |
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| USA | - | 91 |
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| Armenia | - | 91 | |
| The Trade Register keeps the files of 1770 trade representation offices of foreign companies. | |||
| By countries, the first ranking are: | |||
| Russian Federation | - | 289 | |
| Germany | - | 173 | |
| Austria | - | 122 | |
| USA | - | 104 | |
| Switzerland | - | 89 | |
| Cyprus | - | 89 | |
| Macedonia | - | 80 | |
| Greece | - | 73 | |
| France | - | 63 | |
| United Kingdom | - | 62 | |
| Ukraine | - | 61 | |
| Yugoslavia | - | 57 | |
| Italy | - | 55 | |
| Poland | - | 38 | |
| Turkey | - | 35 |
The BCCI Trade Register is the most reliable information source about the current status of the predominant part of businesses in Bulgaria.
Contact number:
Tel. (+359 2) 987 26 31 (ext. 102, 129, 133)
E-mail: Z.Georgieva@bcci.bg