Buy & Sell Bulgaria Insight Newsletter

24th May, 2010, Novinite.com

The Parade of Sail amazed the viewers in the Varna Gulf before the 22 vessels from the 2010 Tall Ships Regatta set out of Bulgaria. Photo by BGNES

Thousands of residents and guests of the Bulgarian sea capital Varna have enjoyed the marvelous Parade of Sail staged by the participants in the 2010 Historical Seas Tall Ships Regatta.

Led by the Bulgarian barquentine Kaliakra, the 22 participants in the regatta sailed close to the coast in the Varna Gulf in order to demonstrate the beauty and splendor of their vessels.

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Dear Partners, Clients and Friends,

We would like to inform you that our Head Offices in Varna, Bulgaria will be closed from Friday, April 2nd, 2010 until Monday, April 5th, 2010 due to the Easter Holidays. Our office in Nicosia, Cyprus will be closed from Thursday, April 1st, 2010 until Monday, April 5th, 2010. Should you have any urgent queries, please contact our Office Manager, Ms. Nedyalka Aleksandrova at +359 894 417 675.

In this season of beauty, renewal and joy, wishing for you happiness and success & sending you our best wishes for a Happy Easter!!!

By Nick Fulford, 12 Oct, 2009

Nick enjoying the beautiful weather and the garden

I recently visited Varna at the end of September and I was kindly invited to join the Eurolink Team and the Children for the Barbeque Afternoon that was being arranged at a Villa, in the countryside near Varna, on Saturday 26^th September. I would like to give you a few notes on my impressions of how the afternoon progressed.

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October 7, 2009

The anchored Norwegian Jade liner as viewed from the Varna beach which enjoyed sunny October weather. Photo by BGNES

The 295-meter Norwegian Jade liner called at Bulgaria’s Black Sea port Varna on Wednesday, October 7, 2009.

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Nedyalka Aleksandrova

Lovely children! Educated and careful, considerate and amiable, studious, knowledgeable and curious. As a parent myself, I was lost in admiration of these wonderful kids and their tutors, who have achieved excellent results where lots of present-day parents fail.

Valeria and Lili with the kids from the Social Educational Professional Centre, Varna

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14^th Sep, Novinite.com

Top Bulgarian culinary show host, Uti Bachvarov (front) together with the award winning chefs of the represented restaurants at the ‘Tastes of Varna’. Photo by Anettevents

The first edition of the “Tastes of Varna” Culinary Festival attracted thousands of visitors for its various events over the week, including Bulgarian show biz stars and food and wine specialists.

The program of the Festival, of which Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) is an official media partner, featured carving and flair shows, event live music performances, kids’ parties, and a competition for ‘Best Banitsa’ (i.e. traditional Bulgarian pastry) organized by one of the sponsors of the event, BELLA Bulgaria. The five-star Helios Spa & Resort complex in the top Golden Sands resort on the Black Sea is the official partner of the culinary fest.

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2^nd Sep, 2009

The legendary train, described in the novel “Murder on the Orient Express”, by Agatha Christie, passed through Varna, announced a reporter from radio Focus. Orient Express arrived at Varna Railway Station with 100 passengers, yesterday afternoon and was expected by many welcoming people, mainly tourists from France and Germany, who had come to see their fellow-citizens. The guests stayed in the city for almost four hours. However, this summer, no tourists were allowed to board the train for a viewing tour. The reason for that was the fact that as the passengers pay an extremely high price for this VIP trip, it wouldn’t be pleasant for them to be disturbed. This year the train set off from Vienna and through Budapest, Bucarest, Varna and Kapakule will end the tour in Istanbul.

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Sofia News Agency

Madonna’s concert in Sofia attracted 60 000 fans who enjoyed the amazing atmosphere of the largest event of that kind to ever take place in Bulgaria. Photo by news.bg

US pop star Madonna rocked the Bulgarian capital Sofia Saturday night from 10 pm until 12 am in her first ever concert in Bulgaria.

Some 60 000 fans filled the Vasil Levski Stadium in downtown Sofia in what is the largest musical event of its kind to ever take place on Bulgarian soil.

The concert started shortly after 8 pm and the crowd was warmed up with various disco beats and mixes for about an hour.

Instead at 9 pm as advertised earlier, Madonna appeared on stage at about 9:55 pm. In the one hour before that the eager fans entertained themselves with more than 150 audience (so-called Mexican) waves.

Madonna’s amazing show that the 60 000 Bulgarians and foreigners saw in Sofia featured a look-alike of Michael Jackson, performing the famous moon walk. The King of Pop who died at the end of June 2009, would have celebrated Saturday, August 29, 2009, his 51st birthday.

In addition to her top hits, Madonna’s concert also included messages for religious tolerance and civic activism - something to which the Sofia audience responded with great cheers and enthusiasm.

One of the more provocative moments of the concert was when Madonna French kissed another woman - one of the dance performers on the stage.

Despite the concert’s truly exciting atmosphere the audience failed to summon Madonna for any curtain calls after the huge screens on the 85-meter long, 40-meter high stage said “Game Over”.

A total of 450 security personnel - the largest such number ever employed in Bulgaria for a single event - were in charge of keeping Madonna’s concert in Sofia in order; police were largely not visible until the very end of the show when they helped regulated the exits and the routes to the closest public transport and subway stations. No accidents have been reported during the concert.

1st April is a Public Holiday in Cyprus. On this day all Greek Cypriots celebrate their National Day. The Holiday commemorates the anniversary of the start of the liberation struggle of the Greek Cypriots against British colonial rule in 1955. On this day secondary school pupils as well as students of higher institutes attend church services.

Happy Holiday and Congratulations on your Victory!

In this season of new beginnings, new hopes and new joys, which fills us with warmth, it is time to get together with friends, family and loved ones and celebrate. Wishing to all our clients, partners, friends and family every happiness, prosperity and continued success!

Happy Easter!

Madonna finally confirmed that she will be coming to Bulgaria. The concert, one of the largest ever in Bulgarian music history, is to be organised by Sofia Music Enterprises and will be held in the National Stadium ‘Vasil Levski’ on the evening of August 29.

Tickets for the event, which is part of Madonna’s ‘Sticky & Sweet’ world tour, will go on sale on February 19 at 9 am. Ticket prices range from BGN 100 to BGN 200. These are some of the cheapest prices for tickets to see Madonna in Europe.

Special Guest for ‘Sticky & Sweet 2009′, Paul Oakenfold will also be performing in Sofia, he has long been one of the most important names in modern club culture.

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The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German,which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan that would be known as “EuroEnglish”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”.. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard “c” will be dropped in favor of the “k”. This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with the “f”. This will make words like “fotograf” 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent “e”’s in the language is disgraceful, and they should go away.

By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaiining “ou” and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reali sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Eurolink Investment Group greets you with the upcoming holidays and wishes you health, personal happiness and professional success!

There are many birthday boys and girls in December. Our colleagues Alexander Nikolov (Deputy Manager of EIG), Denitsa Peneva (Architect, EIG) and Victor Chakarov (Technical Director, EIG), and our dear clients and good friends Sebastian Kinsman, Steven Redfern, Wendy Sharp, Kevin Murray, Jeff Sparks, Christine Barker, Michael Donegan and Haley Kia have their special day this month. We would like to wish them all Many Happy Returns and the best of luck!

It is our company policy to celebrate all Great Events!!!

There are many birthday boys and girls in September. Our colleagues Svetlana Mircheva (Accounts Executive of Eurolink Finance) and Anastasia Piperidou (Legal Advisor at Eurolink in Cyprus), and our clients and good friends Bradley Guiver, Jesmond Falzon, Philippa Flynn, Thomas, Theodoros Ioannou, Vera Lesley Johnson-Staermose, Sally Sayed, David Charitat and Victoria Tsurkan, have their special day this month. We would like to wish them all Many Happy Returns and the best of luck!

It is our company policy to celebrate all Great Events!!!

There are many birthday boys and girls in August. Stephanie Violaris (Chris’s daughter), our colleagues Miro Vladov (Executive Manager of Eurolink Finance)and Krassi Naydenov (Security), and our clients and good friends Maria Phylactou, Ian Green, Andreas Efstathiou, Demetra Nicolaou, Kyriacos Kyriacou, Antonis Matthaiou, George Kyriakides, Brian Davies, Allison Mundy and Karen Gatt, have their special day this month. We would like to wish them all Many Happy Returns and the best of luck!

It is our company policy to celebrate all Great Events!!!

Some people dream of success…while others wake up and work hard at it.

There are many birthday boys and girls in July. Our clients and good friends Ray Potter, Kevin Webster, Stephen Barker, Joel House, Margaret Pender and Louise Todd, have their special day this month. We would like to wish them all Many Happy Returns and the best of luck!

And great news regarding our friend and honourable investor, Ms Veronica Sack. On 29^th June, Veronica became Mrs. Malcolm Waters. Congratulations to the new family!

“Dear Veronica and Malcolm,

As you set off for a new life together …

Here’s wishing you smiles for every mile you cross together!”

Malcolm & Veronica

It is our company policy to celebrate all Great Events!!!

Varna’s Mayor Kiril Yordanov and Krasimir Uzunov, Executive Director of Mall Varna cut the ribbon and officially opened the biggest shopping centre in Bulgaria in mid June.

The official ceremony began at 11 am in the presence of Varna’s Deputy Regional Governor, the Chair of Varna’s Municipal Council and many Varna residents. His Highness, Right Reverend of Varna and Veliki Preslav Kiril consecrated the newest and most modern commercial and shopping complex in Bulgaria.

Varna’s Mayor stated that the quick construction of the Mall on two of Varna’s major thoroughfares and the upcoming opening of the expanded “Hristo Smirnenski” Boulevard was a prime example of good collaboration between private business and the municipal administration of the city.

The parking area with 800 parking spaces was able to accommodate the many Varna residents who came to see their city’s newest attraction.

Mall Varna has a total built-up area of 70 000 square meters, including 33 000 square meters of commercial space. Its 150 stores have already been contracted for the maximum period of ten years. Brands such as New Yorker, Camper and Burger King will be represented for the first time in Bulgaria.

The mall in Bulgaria’s Sea Capital will also have a children’s center named Capella Play, an ice skating facility called Avangard Ice, Excalibur Bowling, pool, as well as the first “Arena” movie theater in the city with 1300 thousand seats over eight movie theaters and a 3D cinema.

The facade of the five-storey building of Mall Varna will be illuminated by a unique light show changing color every thirty minutes.

Mall Varna was constructed by the Bulgarian Interservice Uzunovi Jsc. In the fall of 2007 it was bought by the Scottish company, Miller Developments, a subsidiary of Miller Group.

The price of EUR 120 M was a record for the purchase of a commercial centre in Bulgaria. This is also the second largest real estate deal in the history of the country.

The willingness of foreign firms to invest in the area bodes well for land and property values in Varna and serves as further proof of the rapid and ongoing development of the region.

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”

Peace Pilgrim