Trade promotion services and experts in Bulgaria

Our services 

The services of our missions abroad are available to your company. We provide up-to-date market information, facilitate establishing contacts and help in market access issues. 

The services provided by the missions are part of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ business services. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs is a member of Team Finland, a network of public sector actors providing internationalisation services to Finnish companies.

The Embassy of Finland in Sofia works closely with the other Team Finland partners and brings together key actors from relevant sectors. An important part of the work is sharing information, as well as organizing promotion events and visits in order to raise knowledge about Finland in Bulgaria and Bulgaria in Finland.

In Bulgaria, around 20  Finnish companies have a subsidiary and  approximately 20 Finnish businesses operate through a distributor, partner or sales representative. 

Team Finland in Bulgaria  [email protected]
Business Finland in Warsaw  [email protected] ​​​​​​​

Market information

Finnish exports to Bulgaria have grown steadily in recent years. In Bulgaria there is interest for Finnish companies' energy efficiency and environmental solutions, as well as cooperation with various actors in the field of innovation and cooperation with defence industry itself. There is still significant room for development in the greening of Bulgaria's energy production. Bulgaria faces labor shortages in several sectors while having a large labor-intensive manufacturing and assembly industry. This problem is partly being focused and solved by increasing automation and robotics, which also offers opportunities for Finnish expertise in the field. Bulgaria has been accepted as a member of the euro area from 1 January 2026 and has been a full member of Schengen since 2025. The next goal is OECD membership in the coming years. Bulgaria has held seven parliamentary elections in just over four years.

 

Read more about the free Team Finland Market Opportunities online service, which provides information on sales leads, business opportunities and future trends, along with country reviews. New content is added to the service almost daily. Companies need to sign in with a business ID to use the service. 

Our experts

Kirsti Pohjankukka
Head of Mission
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Jussi Tanskanen
Deputy Head of Mission, Consul, Team Finland Coordinator

E-mail addresses are in the form: [email protected]. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.

Business Finland contact persons

Piotr Hajdecki, Senior Advisor (Digitalization)
[email protected]
+48 508 983 253

Zofia Stelmaszczyk, Senior Advisor (Cleantech)
[email protected]
+48 601 985 202

Agnieszka Wróbel, Advisor (Health and well-being)
[email protected]
+48 508 982 805

Radek Kukuła, Senior Advisor (Smart manufacturing)
[email protected]
+48 508 529 626

Anna Łomża, Senior Advisor (Smart mobility)
[email protected]
+48 500 826 560

Finnish honorary consulates

Honorary consulates complement Finland’s network of missions abroad, which consists of embassies, consulates general, consulates and liaison offices. Honorary consuls are private individuals who carry out consular functions on a part-time basis without remuneration. An honorary consul can advise Finnish companies on how to get information on local business culture and find business partners, among other matters.