烟草在线据Novinite报道编译　　8月29日，保加利亚最大的卷烟制造商保加利亚烟草控股公司宣布，公司2012年上半年的合并利润同比增长了8.5倍。

　　在2011年9月被保加利亚政府以1.001亿欧元出售给俄罗斯银行VTB一家子公司的保加利亚烟草公司，在2012年上半年取得了2700万保加利亚列弗的总利润。

　　保加利亚烟草控股集团将从利润中保留2350万列弗，而其余的将划给该公司的三个子公司——索菲亚保加利亚烟草公司、布拉格耶夫格勒保加利亚烟草公司和普列文保加利亚烟草公司——的小股东。

　　在2012年的第二季度，保加利亚烟草控股公司取得了1330万列弗的利润，超过了上一季度取得的1020万列弗的利润。

　　2012年上半年，保加利亚烟草控股公司的总销售额同比增长了46%，达到2.44亿列弗，第二季度的销售额同比增长了53%，达到1.14亿列弗。

　　保加利亚烟草控股公司在发给媒体的声明中说，公司的产品中，总计有82%供出口。除了卷烟之外，保加利亚烟草控股公司还出口占销售额大约2%的烟叶和香料烟。

　　保加利亚烟草控股公司保持着自己在保加利亚的市场领导位置，在保加利亚卷烟市场中占据着33.8%的份额。

　　由俄罗斯第二大银行VTB拥有的保加利亚烟草投资公司在2011年8月底赢了一项招标，以1.001亿欧元购买了保加利亚烟草控股公司79.8%的股权。

　　合约禁止在未来10年内转售这些股权，这是一个可以通过更改保加利亚烟草投资公司的所有权而跳过的条件，这个可能性得到了保加利亚私有化管理局的承认。

　　在奥地利注册的保加利亚烟草投资公司的背后是俄罗斯第二大银行VTB。在英美烟草公司和奥地利的CB家庭办公服务公司放弃投标之后，保加利亚烟草投资公司仍然是保加利亚烟草专卖公司唯一的投标购买方。

　　2009年，保加利亚烟草控股公司的两个不太赢利的工厂——即位于普罗夫迪夫市和旧扎戈拉市的两家烟厂，通过索菲亚证券交易所，分别以3100万列弗和1800万列弗的价格售出。

　　保加利亚烟草控股公司目前在索菲亚和布拉格耶夫格勒拥有两家较大的、更统一的烟厂，在普列文拥有一家烟叶加工厂，另外还拥有一些商业品牌。

Bulgarian Cigarette-maker's Profit Grows Eightfold in H1 2012

　　Bulgaria's largest cigarette-maker Bulgartabac Holding has seen its consolidated profit grow 8.5 times in the first half of 2012 year-on-year, the company announced Wednesday.

　　Thus, in H1 of 2012, Bulgartabac, which was sold by the Bulgarian government to a subsidiary of the Russian bank VTB for EUR 100.1 M in September 2011, registered a total profit of BGN 27 M.

　　The BT Holding group will retain BGN 23.5 M from the profit, while the rest will go to minority shareholders in the company's three subsidiaries - Sofia BT, Blagoevgrad BT, and Pleven BT.

　　In the second quarter of 2012, Bulgartabac had a profit of BGN 13.3 M beating its result of BGN 10.2 M from the first quarter

　　In the first half of 2012, BT's total sales grew by 46% year-on-year to BGN 244 M; the growth in the second quarter was 53% year-on-year, to BGN 114 M.

　　A total of 82% of Bulgartabac's produce goes to exports, the Holding said in its media statement; in addition to cigarettes, BT Holding also exports tobacco leaves and oriental tobacco, which make up about 2% of its sales.

　　Bulgartabac has retained its leading market share in Bulgaria, with 33.8% of the Bulgarian market of cigarettes.

　　BT Invest, owned by Russia's second-largest bank VTB, won at the end of August 2011 a tender to buy a 79.8% stake in Bulgartabac for EUR 100.1 M.

　　The contract bans the resale of the holding in the next ten years, a condition which can be skipped through a change in the ownership of BT Invest; this possibility has been admitted by the Bulgarian Privatization Agency.

　　Austria-registered BT Invest, behind which stands Russia's second-biggest bank VTB, remained the only bidder for the Bulgarian tobacco monopoly after British American Tobacco and Austria-based CB Family Office Service dumped the sale.

　　Two of the less profitable plants of Bulgartabac holding - in the cities of Plovdiv and Stara Zagora - were sold in 2009 through the Sofia Stock Exchange - for BGN 31 M and BGN 18 M respectively.

　　The holding currently owns the two larger and more consolidated factories in Sofia and Blagoevgrad, a processing plant in Yasen near Pleven, as well as a number of commercial brands.