Interpred - World Trade Center Sofia, an iconic office building built in the 1980s in the "Izgrev" district of Sofia, has attracted the attention of investors. The Interpred - WTC Sofia building was completed in 1986. It has 12 above-ground and 3 underground floors, located in two wings with a total developed built-up area of ​​33.6 thousand sq. m. The lettable area is 17.6 thousand sq. m, of which the office area is 15,250 sq. m. There is also a restaurant, a winery, a canteen with a coffee bar and a panoramic bar - a total of 1,200 sq. m., as well as a conference center with an area of ​​1,150 sq. m., featuring 10 halls with a capacity of 8 to 275 seats. The building also has an underground garage with 150 parking spaces, as well as an open one with a capacity of 178 cars. Another 90 spaces are available in a two-level underground garage next to the Joliot-Curie metro station, located in the immediate vicinity. There is no deal at this stage. The owner company at the moment is still "Interpred - World Trade Center Sofia". Edoardo Miroglio owns a 99.7% stake in it through the Luxembourg-registered "B.R.E.". He acquired the building back in 2002. In 2019, the Italian with a Bulgarian passport acquired two more buildings in Sofia, which he has also been developing as office buildings since then. They are named "Interpred Tsar Boris" and "Interpred Boyana". The first, located on B. "Tsar Boris III" 159, housed TV7 television and the offices of Tsvetan Basilev, owner of the bankrupt "Cooperative Commercial Bank". The building, located at 3 Spas Sokolov St. in "Manastirski Livadi", was built for bTV, but the media was not moved there. At the end of 2016, it was purchased by the "Bulgarian Media Company" of Irena Krusteva and Delyan Peevski, and later sold to Mirolio. The activities of the holding company of the same name "E. Mirolio" in Bulgaria, in addition to the real estate sector, are focused on the textile and fashion industries, as well as the production of wine under the brand "Vinarpca Izba Edoardo Mirolio". Since 2018, Mirolio has also owned the fashion brand DiKa, which has stores in France as well as Bulgaria. The revenues of "Interpred World Trade Center Sofia" in 2024 amounted to 6.8 million BGN. The net profit was 1.9 million BGN. According to the consolidated financial statements of "E. Mirolio", the group's revenues were 289.6 million BGN, and the profit before taxes was just over 17 million BGN.

The Bulgarian chain of building materials and home and garden goods Masterhaus, owned by the company "Boshnakov", is starting to build a logistics center near Burgas. The expected investment in it is 29.5 million leva. The logistics center will have a total built-up area of ​​20.5 thousand sq m on a 60-acre plot of land, which is located on the right when entering Burgas from Sofia, before the cloverleaf for Sunny Beach on the Northern Tangent. Construction is already underway, and preparatory activities are currently being carried out on the terrain. The logistics center is expected to be completed and put into operation in 2026 and to open 40 new jobs. The history of the chain starts in Burgas, where in 1993 it opened a small paint and chemical store. Between 1999 and 2000, the first larger site was opened in the same city, at that time under the name "Dom na maystara". Since then, the chain has grown and now has one store each in Nessebar, Primorsko, Aytos and Kazanlak. This fall, it is expected to open its sixth store - in Sliven. The seventh is planned to be in Sofia. The land was purchased from a private owner in a deal for 45 acres in the Kurt Tepe/Vulchi Vrah area. The seller is a subsidiary of Nova City, with a declared material interest of BGN 3.6 million. The property was then mortgaged for BGN 3.6 million in UBB, and for now, this is the only mortgage in the bank. The remaining acres were purchased in separate deals with private individuals. The space in the logistics center will be distributed between different zones. The high-bay warehouse with a capacity of about 10 thousand pallet spaces will allow for storing a large volume of goods and providing quick access to them. The warehouse for bulky materials with an area of ​​8 thousand square meters will process the largest items in the assortment. A separate warehouse of 2 thousand sq. m is designed for fast-moving goods. In it, trucks will be serviced in a covered area, which allows for fast and secure reception and dispatch. Trends in floor and wall coverings, sanitary ware and bathroom and kitchen products will be presented in a modern showroom of 3 thousand sq. m. There will also be an administration office of 500 sq. m., where the operational center for managing the base will be located.

The Energy Storage System (BESS) in Lovech, which is the largest in the European Union and the fifth in the world (at the time of obtaining the permit). With an installed capacity of 124 MW and a storage capacity of 496 MWh, the Advance Green Energy project, which has been operating for only a few months, is already changing the energy landscape in Bulgaria. The investment in the project is worth 146.7 million BGN. Own funds, co-financed through a loan from the global bank Citi, are 89 million BGN, and nearly 58 million BGN are financial assistance under the Recovery and Sustainability Plan, Restore measure. The battery complex is composed of 16 modules, each with a capacity of 31.3 MWh and a power of 7.8 MW, with 111 lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, which have established themselves as the best energy storage solutions on the market. Each charge and discharge takes 4 hours. The project is also equipped with an intelligent management system, which significantly contributes to the efficient operation of the facility. The construction of the facility was completed within just 6 months, and on April 30, 2025, it received a Permit for Use No. ST-05-236. Advance Green Energy plans to install batteries at its plants in Razgrad and Peshtera, which will be between 130 and 180 MWh.

The Estonian food delivery company Bolt Food announced that since September, Dimitar Vutkov has been the general manager for Bulgaria. He has over 10 years of experience in the METRO wholesale chain, which has been present in the country since 1998. His last position was Director of Franchising, and before that he was also responsible for the development of marketing at METRO. The parent company Bolt entered Bulgaria in June 2024, when it deployed 800 electric scooters for shared use throughout the capital. It then also set foot in Varna and Burgas, and its attempt at the beginning of this year to start operations in Plovdiv was thwarted by the local administration, which did not allow it. In other European markets where the Estonian company, founded in August 2013, operates, it also offers electric bicycles for rent, car sharing, a taxi service, as well as shared trips with a personal car.

Four companies have submitted offers following the invitation of the Mayor of Blagoevgrad Metodi Baykushev, sent at the end of August to all interested parties to participate in market consultations for the construction of a second cell for household waste in the Regional Waste Management System near the village of Buchino. The difference in the four submitted offers is over 1 million leva. The lowest price was offered by Eterna Construction AD, registered in the village of Zelen Dol, represented by Margarita Kotseva, and it is 2,288,981.77 leva including VAT. Next are the offers of the executive director of the Plovdiv company "European Roads" AD Margarita Popivanova - 2,368,319.98 BGN with VAT, and of the Kyustendil company "Bulplan Invest" OOD with manager Nikolay Yosifov - 3,505,627.51 BGN. The last with the highest value is the offer of "PGS" AD, registered in Sofia, with manager Alexander Nikolov - 3,557,385.58 BGN with VAT. A project for the construction of Cell 2 was presented to the municipality of Blagoevgrad under a contract concluded with "Niproruda" AD a year ago. Since the commissioning of the landfill on 29.08.2019, the five municipalities have been filling Cell 1 with garbage, and in 2021-2022 Cell 3 was reclaimed, which contains the waste accumulated before the new landfill was opened. The market consultations conducted by Mayor Baykushev are aimed at updating the analysis prepared a year ago in preparation for announcing and conducting a public procurement for the construction of Cell 2.

Bulgarian technology company Sirma Group has launched a beta version of its own AI platform – Sirma Enterprise AI, which will first be tested within the company itself. It combines the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) with enterprise-level security. Its goal is to help organizations quickly and securely build, deploy and scale their own AI agents with specific roles, agent teams and agent workflows. It allows agents to connect to company data and business processes, which will lead to optimization of processes in companies and saving resources. The platform is designed to fully protect organizations’ business data, allowing the use of powerful AI tools without the information leaving their servers. Sirma Enterprise AI has already attracted serious interest from a large customer from the automotive industry in the US, with the company in the final stage of negotiations.

Plot of 111 decares with a newly built 4.9 MWp photovoltaic plant (56 decares) and an adjacent free plot (55 decares) with development potential at a key location in the city of Blagoevgrad

U.S. retail sales rose more than expected in August, but momentum could slow as a weakening labor market and rising commodity prices due to tariffs on imports into the country. This is according to the latest data from the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce, cited by Reuters. Retail sales rose 0.6 percent in August on a monthly basis, and July data was revised slightly upward to a 0.6 percent increase. Part of the growth in retail sales last month was likely due to price increases due to tariffs on imports into the United States, rather than due to growth in volumes, Reuters points out. The weakening labor market, with fewer jobs and rising unemployment as companies postpone hiring due to an uncertain economic outlook, poses a risk to consumer spending, the agency adds. Core retail sales, which exclude the categories "automobiles," "fuel," "building materials" and "food services," rose 0.7 percent in August after an unrevised 0.5 percent gain in July. So-called core retail sales correspond most closely to the consumer spending component of gross domestic product (GDP).