- 26-06-2019 12:01
- Velizar Petrov
"In Bulgaria
there is no specific definition and specific studies
on family
business, as well as specific tools and organizations to support
the succession and transfer of family business," said Velizar
Petrov, Executive director of RDA BSC SME (Regional Development Agency with
Business Support Center for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) to
representatives of the Regional Development Council (RDC) and (RCC) Regional Coordination Committee of the
South Central Region, other stakeholders and media representatives.
"For almost three years we have been able to explore
the good practices on the subject from the partner countries of project STOB regions - Succession and business transfer in the regions, and we now need to develop an Action Plan to
identify the nature of the actions to be implemented, their timeframe,
participants, costs and sources of funding (other than the programme and the project) aiming at improvement of the "National Strategy for Small
and Medium-sized Enterprises 2014-2020 - Small Business Act, he
stressed.
The Action Plan
concept will focus on three main activities:
ACTIVITY 1. Local
network for owner-managers (successors)
ACTIVITY 2. Regional
Business Transfer Platform
ACTIVITY 3. Financial
Instruments / Mentoring / Certification Schemes
The concept was agreed and adopted unanimously on 25 June 2019 during a joint
meeting of the RDC and the RCC of South Central Region (NUTS 2).
Velizar Petrov
supported the idea of the Chairperson of the Managing Board of Plovdiv Chamber
of Commerce and Industry Mrs. Dobrinja Prodanova for
an active joint activity on this topic of succession and business transfer between Thrakia Economic Zone Cluster and RDA BSC SMEs. The project and the Action Plan were also supported by Mr. Dimitar Gishin of the National Council
of the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association.
The STOB regions – Succession and Business Transfer in the regions is co-funded under
INTERREG Europe Programme.
For more information:
032/902399
Velizar Petrov