PLATO BULGARIA PARTICIPANTS LIST COORDINATOR Organization BCCI Organization profile Name Atanas Naydenov The Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) is established in 1895 and is the leading employers’ association in Bulgaria – comprising over 52000 members. It is an Website www.bcci.bg independent, non-profit NGO that supports, promotes and represents the interests of its members and contributes to the development of international economic cooperation. BCCI is based on principles of voluntary membership, autonomy and self-financing and seeks to establish ethical and socially responsible relationships in business. E-mail [email protected] BCCI contributes to the creation of a more favourable business environment and dedicates many efforts for the promotion and support of entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives. Tel. 02/8117553 The BCCI participates with its representatives in the work of over 200 committees, working and expert groups in various fields of the economy. In terms of international cooperation, it is a part of the integrated international network of chambers of commerce throughout the world and a member of various international organizations, joint-chambers and councils. Through BCCI Bulgarian companies become part of the largest business organizations in the world. MENTORS Organization BHRMDA Organization profile Name Genoveva Bakardjieva The Bulgarian Human Resources Management and Development Association (BHRMDA) is a non-governmental organization established to support and develop professionals in the Website www.bhrmda.bg human resource management and development area and to raise the status of the profession as a whole. Established in July 2000, currently the association has more than 650 individual and corporate members who work in the area of human resources management and development as company managers, human resource managers in Bulgarian and E-mail [email protected] multinational companies, banks, public administration, training and development managers, HR consultants, and university lecturers. Tel. 02/9501090; 02/9501091 BHRMDA is a member of the European Association for Personnel Management (EAPM) and of the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations (WFPMA). BHRMDA organizes conferences with international participation, round tables, popularizes ideas and participates in pilot projects in the area of human resources development. The association circulates a monthly electronic bulletin for news and actual information, articles and interviews on HR topics. Annually, BHRMDA organizes National conferences with international participation, at which well-known Bulgarian and international practicians, consultants and research workers in the HR area, experts from major companies and leading universities are introduced. Several clubs are built up in the frames of the Association: Club of the academic representatives, Strategic and development club, Young HR club, HR in IT sphere club, Public Administration club, regional clubs. The aim of the Association and the club members is to popularize new findings, research results and real practices in HR sphere. Company AVL Sofia Ltd. Company profile Name Jordanka Viyatchka Import of medical, automotive and military equipment, reagents and spare parts. Website E-mail [email protected] Tel. 02/ 963 28 66 PARTICIPANTS Company American Way LLC Company profile Name Milka Babacheva American Way is an American company with its own production and presents on European market more than 15 years. The company has 7 offices in different coutries in Europe and Website www.americanwaygroup.com works with the biggest hipermarket chains – Tesco, Globus, Metro, Kaufland, Carrefour, Billa and many others. The main activity of the company is distribution of drogery goods as sunglasses for adults and children, reading glasses, sport glasses and hair and cosmetic accessories. We have E-mail [email protected] more than 750 models sunglasses, 250 reading glasses, 400 model hair accessories and 150 models cosmetic accessories. Tel. 02/ 858 01 61 American Way came in Bulgaria at 2005. Our main customers in Bulgaria are: Kaufland, Metro and Carrefour. We work also with some retail customers. Our goals are: - the best service for the customers and help in their sales; - good merchandising service; - flexibility in requirements of the market. Company AMK Drives and controls LTD Company profile Name Kalina Stancheva AMK “Drives and controls” Ltd., is established in 1998. It is the biggest and only production branch of the German holding АМК Arnold Müller GmbH & Co. KG, owned by Arnold Muller. Website www.amk-drives.bg CEO of the AMK in Bulgaria, Gabrovo is Eng. Stefan Deevski, Ph. D. АМК develops and produces servo drives, induct and synchronous servo motors, PL controllers, CNC, visualization panels, gear motors, frequency invertors, develops and produces E-mail [email protected] systems for drives and control of technological processes, industrial networks. Also develops and produces custom made stators, rotors and electro motors, including ones for Tel. 066/ 819 100 automotive industry and electro mobiles. It produces machines and technological lines, does retrofit for old machines and equipment.. At the moment there are 150 employees in the company. Half of them are engineering personnel and 5 are Ph. D. specialists. AMK Ltd. has 5 designated departments: • “Development” department – established for hardware construction, programming of microcontrollers, development of system software and full testing of products. The specialists, employed in that department take active part in the newest development of servo drives, PLC, interface for equipment communication, software for parameter setting, diagnosis and support of AMK products. • “Development of electro motors” department - established for constructing of custom made motors. • “Production of electro motors” department – established for production of electro motors, 95 % is for export. The quality of the produced electro motors is controlled on 100%. Since mid 2004 AMK Ltd. possesses a quality certificate ISО9001, issued by TÜF, Munich. • “Application projects” department – established for resolving whole projects in the field of automation and modernization with AMK equipment. All stages of work are done: design, Company Assist LTD Company profile Name Dorina Dobreva 1. Production Website www.assist.bg • Engineering and assembly of sectional residential garage doors • Engineering and assembly of sectional industrial garage doors E-mail [email protected] • Engineering and installation of hangar doors Tel. 02/ 824 18 24 • Production and installation of automatic sliding doors • Delivery of entrance mats • Special metal constructions 2. Sales and marketing • Sales and distribution in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Luxembourg, Roumania of the following range of products: garage doors, automatic doors, barriers, parking-systems, radiant infrared heating, air-curtains, awnings, entrance mats, access control systems, hangar doors, big industrial doors and gates • CRM application in sales and email marketing • Project management • „Saving” of projects which have faced problems of quality or deadline • Analysis of trends and innovations in the sector of entrance solutions locally and globally Company BPC Niksi JSC Company profile Name Nikolay Zehirev In the beginning of his business activity the firm was concentrated on retail trade with pharmaceutical goods, and wholesale and retail sale of children's foods from local production and Website www.bpcniksi.com import, and gradually the range of the supplied goods was expanded to include distribution of medical products, first aid and emergency articles. Since 1995 “BPC NIKSI” is the exclusive representative and distributor of “Levtrade Int.” (PTY.) Ltd. - the Republic of South Africa, manufacturer of premedical first aid products for burns and scalds of any nature with E-mail [email protected] brands “BURNSHIELD” and “SOLACE”. Tel. 02/ 952 28 63 From 1997 to 2000 the firm is the exclusive representative and distributor of the German company, manufacturer of “Milupa” baby and children's foods, which is part of the Dutch holding “NUMICO”. From 2001 up to the present moment “BPC NIKSI” is the exclusive representative and distributor of “Laboratorios ORDESA” S.L. – Barcelona, Spain – manufacturer of adapted and special milks for nurselings, baby cereals, teas, medicinal foods, etc. Since 2000 and until now the baby purees “Am Am” are produced according to the firm receipt and quality criteria in full compliance with the requirements of the local and European legislation. The most significant advantage we have over the competition on the local market is the complete lack of thickeners or any other artificial additives. The purees “Am Am” are absolutely natural. Since 2009 and until now we began to provide financial, tax and advisory services: • Preparation of business projects; • Controlling -> (planning and forecasting + evaluation of the actual state analysis of the results + positive and negative factors impact remedies = positive result in over 85% of companies with a system for controlling); Company Bunay S.A. Company profile Name Bonka Natova Bunay S.A. manufactures parts of plastics, bakelite and rubber as well as moulds for their production using methods injection moulding, press forming and back pressure injection with Website www.bunay.com annual turnover of about 4,2 million EUR (2007). A considerable part of the production