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In the period from August 2, 2022 until now, the Minister of Innovation and Growth Alexander Pulev
Alexander Pulev was born on February 5, 1981 in Plovdiv.
He has a master's degree in finance from the Oxford University and has issued 14 certificates under the Investment Promotion Act (IPA) with a total planned investment of BGN 207 million and the upcoming creation of 1,373 new jobs.
This became clear today in the town of Kuklen, where Minister Pulev presented a class A investment certificate, issued by order of ZNI, to the executive director of KCM AD Ivan Dobrev.
The issued certificate is for the investment project "Technological integration to KCM AD" in the town of Kuklen in the amount of over BGN 41 million, the MIR press center announced.
"With the official cabinet, we managed to get approval for 10 out of 10 European programs with a total value of BGN 20 billion. Through MIR, we managed to secure a resource of BGN 5 billion for our two main programs - for competitiveness and science and innovation, for the small and medium business.
We like to say that small and medium-sized businesses are the backbone of the economy.
I think that this can be attributed in any way to the KCM, which are of key importance, including for the Plovdiv region," said Pulev.
"Beyond the Euro funds, we are trying to help with all the other instruments for which I am temporarily in charge," he added.
According to him, there is a lot of activity on the part of the Bulgarian Investment Agency.
"We managed in a short period of time to certify 14 projects, you are one of them.
Together with the business, we managed to create 1,300 new jobs and I am really very proud of these achievements", said the minister and added that it is a privilege for the state to be able to support large companies such as KCM AD.
As an incentive measure for the project, from the budget of the Ministry of Innovation and Growth of the Municipality of Kuklen, more than BGN 1 million will be paid for the construction of elements of the municipal road infrastructure.
It will be owned by the municipality.
Rumen Tsonev - Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of HOLDING KCM 2000, Maria Belcheva - Mayor of Kuklen Municipality and Ivanka Petkova, Deputy Regional Governor of the city of Plovdiv were also present at the presentation.
In 2022, BGN 9.67 million have been allocated from the MIR budget for the construction of municipal road infrastructure under the order of ZNI. The funds have been invested in the development of the industrial zones of Maritsa, Kuklen and Karlovo municipalities.
Thus, the state supports investment projects of 5 companies with a total value of BGN 201 million, providing for the creation of over 1,500 new jobs.
MIR pays over BGN 2.3 million to the Municipality of Elin Pelin
According to the data of the Main Directorate "European Funds for Competitiveness" under the first open procedure under the Plan for Recovery and Sustainability - "Technological Modernization", 358 project proposals for grants of nearly BGN 104 million have been submitted from Plovdiv and the region. The region ranks immediately after the capital by number of submitted proposals.
The value of the procedure is BGN 260 million and it is for small and medium-sized enterprises, with the aim of renewing and modernizing their technical park.
The measure ended with over 2,500 submitted project proposals from all over the country for over BGN 1 billion. On December 30, MIR will also announce the first enterprises that won funding from the Recovery Plan under this procedure.
According to the second open measure of the PVU for "ICT solutions and cyber security", 849 project proposals for grants of over BGN 16 million were submitted from Plovdiv and the region. The procedure ended on December 19 with nearly 7,700 project proposals submitted for over BGN 146 million Its value is BGN 30.6 million. With the funds, companies will be able to introduce ICT services, digital marketing solutions, platforms, websites, optimize management, production and logistics processes, as well as ensure - good information and cyber security.
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