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Battle for BulgariaBattle for Bulgaria
Tina Milton
15-Apr-2006
The Volatility of Bulgarian politics makes it difficult to predict the duty-free industry's next twists and turns. While the country's airport stores go from strength to strength, its border stores suffer peaks and troughs in their fight for survival. Tina Milton reports on the latest developments
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If the Bulgarian duty-free market were a piece of gym equipment it would probably be a treadmill with a very thin belt. The uphill battle to keep border operations open
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(3-Jun-2003) - BULGARIA. As Bulgaria?s government prepares to draft a plan to close the country?s border duty-free stores, operators remain confident that the move will be blocked.
(8-Jul-2003) - The Bulgarian Association of Duty-Free Enterprises has called for international support in the fight to retain its border duty-free business. Operators are to seek parliamentary reprise from last week's decision by the finance ministry to close the country's port and border stores on January 1 2004.
(1-Feb-2005) - BULGARIA. A closely fought auction is expected over the sale of state-owned Kalotina-Balkantourist, which operates one shop on the Bulgaria?Serbia border, after the country's privatisation agency put it up for public auction earlier this month
(22-May-2003) - As the Bulgarian government prepares to draft a plan to close the country's border duty-free stores, operators remain confident that the move will be blocked
(31-Aug-2006) - BULGARIA. The European Travel Retail Council (ETRC) has clarified several points set out in a letter from European Commission director general of tax and customs Robert Verrue to the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance about the status of the country's duty-free border stores
