The new plant for solid dosage forms in Sofia is close to completion.

Ognian Donev, member of the National Board of the Bulgarian Network of the UN Global Compact and Chairman of CEIBG

Mr. Donev, what is corporate social responsibility? How and why is it done and is there any place for it in our country?

The tenth jubilee issue of the Annual Business Responsibility Awards of the Bulgarian Business Leaders Forum collected a record-breaking number of nominees. The successfully realised sustainable projects of Sopharma - "Corporate Social Centre" and "We for the Society" - "Health Days", are also among the 85 projects. They were featured in the categories "Investor in Human Capital" and "Cause-related Marketing".

It became evident from the words of the Chief Executive Officer of Sopharma that Lyubomir Pavlov had to cover an obligation to the lending banks, which caused him to sell.

The Chief Executive Officer of Sopharma AD, Ognian Donev, has once again joined in the discussion with investors of the forum of Investor.bg. He answered some questions posted on the topic, found in the section Comments on investor.bg.

Amongst the topics were the auctions of large packs of shares of Sоpharma AD, the dividend policy of the company and the entry of new investors in the company.

More than 1000 photos on the subject “Family values” were sent by participants in the first monthly photo contest of Club 50 Plus (www.club50plus.bg).

Days before March 1, the martenitzi handmade by children from the St.Mina day care center, aroused great interest among the employees of Sopharma.

Generation Awake accepted Sopharma as their partner and adherent. “Generation Awake” - the European Commission campaign is for efficient use of natural resources. It is oriented to active people ready to change their daily habits, to make a better place of the World we are living in.

The campaign topic each year is different, which for 2014 is the better management of wastes. This is a key element to achieve the Green Economy objectives.

Dr. Konstantin Trenchev: KT "Podkrepa" proposes measures to stimulate the economy V. K.: There is some logic to start the conversation in a way things really are - tripartite cooperation. I have other questions for you, of course, I hope we have time for all of them. Next week the tripartite cooperation will convene, what do the employers at KRIB want from the current government? O. D.: Perhaps to distance myself from this, but also as a joke with Dr. Trenchev, I personally do not believe in his theory of a good king and a bad gatekeeper, he will probably understand what I mean ... V.

Who knew that newspapers can make something so beautiful?

One of Sopharma’s longtime empolyees, Tanya Iordanova, demonstrated this with an array of handcrafted newspapers and colorful paper objects. On March 18th and 19th, in celebration of Spring approaching, and in support of the charity bazaars “ Help a friend”, Sopharma employees can enjoy their colleague's unique art.

LIBERA Institute kindly provided us with a brief overview of the sessions that were conducted over the last six months with the support of Sopharma.