28.09.2026
On 27 September 2026, Stara Planina Hold Plc marks 30 years since its establishment. The company is the legal successor to Central Privatization Fund AD, founded on 27 September 1996.
Today, the holding company brings together leading industrial enterprises in four business segments and continues to develop Bulgarian industry through investment, innovation, high productivity and the sustainable creation of value.
We share our success with the shareholders, employees and specialists, customers, suppliers and partners who have helped to make it possible.
Stara Planina Hold Plc is the only Bulgarian publicly traded holding company to have paid a dividend for every financial year of its operations: 29 consecutive years.
Company figures
- Initial capital: BGN 1.75 million (EUR 0.895 million)
- Current share capital: EUR 10.71 million, divided into 21 million shares
- Share price: EUR 5.10
- Market capitalization of Stara Planina Hold Plc: EUR 107.1 million
- Cash dividends distributed for 1997–2025: over EUR 35 million
- Dividends relative to the initial investment: 39.3 times
- Nominal increase in the share price over the period: more than 120 times
- Shareholders: over 21,700 individuals and legal entities
Consolidated figures
- Assets: over EUR 164.8 million
- Total equity, including non-controlling interests: over EUR 121.1 million
- Combined market capitalization of the group’s publicly traded companies: EUR 398.2 million
- Gross dividends distributed by group companies over 29 financial years: EUR 161.2 million
- Employees in the group’s manufacturing companies: 1,900
- Exports to more than 60 countries across all continents
- Expected group sales in 2026: EUR 152.8 million, an increase of more than 8% compared with 2025
- Shareholders: over 27,000 individuals and legal entities