“How to stay on top in terms of economic crisis?" is the question that has been exciting companies during the last 2 years. Companies that approached the crisis with fear, shrinked their investments and lost market positions. On the contrary successful companies approached the crisis as an opportunity and continued to invest in their future, focusing on the most valuable assets in the 21st century - human capital and information.

With clear plans for its future, VM Finance Group took another strategic step towards sustainable and long-term development. The company will invest €250 thousand in the implementation of Business Intelligence software, which will improve decision making process and increase efficiency of the Group.

Despite the difficult economic situation, VM Finance Group believes, that companies that survive in times of crisis are companies with clear vision for the future that don’t limit investments in growth.

According to its strategy for sustainable development in the last year the Group initiated a project for organizational improvement. aiming for optimization in companies of VM Finance Group, making them more structured, coordinated and effective, and also to provide human and financial capacity for future sustainable development of the business.

As a result of a tender, VM Finance Group selected a partner for implementation of this ambitious project – BTS Ltd. and the software application - SAP Business Objects.

The main purpose and function of the new BI software is to provide faster access to information with high precision and reliability of the data. It will optimize resources for reporting and analysis and will improve quality and transparency of decision making process. It will provide easy monitoring of key performance indicators that align organizational strategy of the Group with its operational activities.

In the next few months the software solution will be implemented in the 14th companies of VM Finance Group, operating in different sectors - manufacturing, distribution and logistics, building installations and technologies, media and advertising, services.

VM Finance Group is a corporation responsible to its current and future partners, suppliers, institutions, industry and NGOs, and believes that fundamental to them is Group’s stable development and behaviour of modern company even in times of crisis.

In early September Bultransport Logistic and Services Ltd. (BLS) moved to a new modern warehouse conforming to the requirements on storage and processing of fast-moving consumer goods. The offices and the warehouse of the company are situated at BG/GU/0020 building, 1 Samokovsko Shosse Blvds., Somat Logistics Centre.

In April Bultransport Logistic and Services Ltd. (BLS) entered into an agreement with the leading manufacturer of cosmetics and perfumery Aroma AD. With the conclusion of the deal BLS became logistics partner of the Bulgarian company for the entire Bulgarian territory.

Bultransport Logistic and Services Ltd. (BLS) and Direx Ltd. merged. BLS established itself as one of the largest suppliers for HoReCa channels, oil channel, as well as national and local chain stores.