Haskovo Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Haskovo Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI) is a member of the unified system of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and it is founded in 1991 as a non-governmental organisation, built on the principles of voluntariness, autonomy and self-financing. The members of HCCI are around 200 large, small and medium enterprises from Haskovo Region, organizations and associations, working in support of the business. The Chamber has a Management Board of 5 members, and its activity is controlled by 3-memeber Control Council. The operational management of HCCI is implemented by the President of the Management Board. Six employees currently work in HCCI – full-time experts and two working part-time. In its 25-year history HCCI created long-term cooperations with a big part of the institutions of the state and local authorities, the non-governmental sector and civil associations. It had worked on previous projects with most of the representatives of the local and executive authority, state institutions, NGOs, trade unions. It has created a lot of long-term partnerships with Chambers of Commerce and Industry and other organizations from Greece, Turkey, Albania, Ukraine, Russia, England, Italy, China, Korea, etc. The financial capacity of HCCI is formed by: single and annual property payment of its members (membership payment), donations, dividends and other legal incomes. HCCI has a big experience in projects implementation, based on implemented more than 20 projects over the last years. In many projects are realized researches, studies, created online tools, organized exhibitions, markets, big events, created informational materials, held press conferences, etc. Some of the projects are in the field of tourism