Bulgaria Companies: Owners Behind the Business
Company register search for 422,498 Bulgaria companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Bulgaria company register data is public on the Търговски регистър (Commercial Register), operated by the Registry Agency. Beneficial ownership is not a separate register here: it is filed within the same Commercial Register and Register of Non-Profit Legal Entities, at a threshold above 25% of shares, voting rights, or equity — specifically 25.01% or more. Following the EU's Court of Justice ruling of 22 November 2022, access is now restricted to parties who can demonstrate a legitimate interest, rather than open to general search. New entities must file within one month of incorporation, updating within seven days of any change.
Bulgaria beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Bulgaria
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Bulgaria, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s central company register, the Commercial Register and Register of Non-Profit Legal Entities, is administered by the Registry Agency under the Ministry of Justice and displays beneficial-ownership data directly within company filings rather than through a separate UBO register, under the Measures Against Money Laundering Act. Following the Court of Justice of the EU’s November 22, 2022 ruling restricting unconditional public UBO access across the bloc, Bulgaria amended the Act in mid-2025 to introduce a legitimate-interest access framework for the most sensitive fields — certified extracts, residential addresses, and identification numbers — though basic beneficial-owner data such as a shareholder’s name, ownership percentage, and country of residence remained retrievable from the public Commercial Register portal in practice as of a July 2026 access test, without a legitimate-interest showing.
Separate amendments to the underlying Commercial Register law, published in State Gazette No. 67/2025, took effect January 1, 2026 and revised filing procedures including beneficial-ownership submissions, adding to a Registry Agency system that already runs the BULSTAT identification register and the Property Register alongside the Commercial Register itself. The business population these registers cover is overwhelmingly small: 2022 figures put Bulgaria’s SME count at 338,044, of which 92.0% were micro-enterprises with fewer than 10 employees, while foreign-controlled enterprises — roughly 2% of all Bulgarian businesses by count — generated about 20% of value added in the business economy, reflecting a small number of larger, foreign-owned firms operating alongside a very large population of small domestic ones.
Bulgaria company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
Of 338,044 Bulgarian SMEs reported for 2022, 92.0% were micro-enterprises with fewer than 10 employees, 6.8% small, and 1.2% medium; a reliable, matching-unit count of large enterprises (250+ employees) to complete a full-universe breakdown was not independently confirmed to a dated source in this pass. Source: European Commission SME Performance Review / Statista, Bulgaria SME size distribution 2022.
Foreign-controlled entities
Foreign-controlled enterprises represented roughly 2% of all Bulgarian businesses by entity count in 2022, yet generated about 20% of value added in the business economy — a small number of larger, foreign-owned firms alongside a very large population of small domestic ones. A matching employment-share figure was not independently confirmed to a reliable, dated source in this pass.
Who uses Bulgaria ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Bulgaria counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 379,671 Bulgaria entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many Bulgaria companies are in Zavia's database?
Zavia holds 422,498 company records for Bulgaria, of which 422,471 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Who owns companies in Bulgaria, and is that information public?
Bulgaria company register data is public on the Търговски регистър (Commercial Register), operated by the Registry Agency. Beneficial ownership is not a separate register here: it is filed within the same Commercial Register and Register of Non-Profit Legal Entities, at a threshold above 25% of shares, voting rights, or equity — specifically 25.01% or more. Following the EU's Court of Justice ruling of 22 November 2022, access is now restricted to parties who can demonstrate a legitimate interest, rather than open to general search. New entities must file within one month of incorporation, updating within seven days of any change.
Can I see a Bulgaria company's shareholders and corporate structure on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 2 shareholder records for Bulgaria companies, with 58,774 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Can I find the directors of a Bulgaria company on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 41 officer and director records for Bulgaria companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Can I look up a Bulgaria company's VAT number on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 257 VAT records for Bulgaria companies, linked to the same registered entity as its company profile.
Can I access financial statements for Bulgaria companies on Zavia?
Yes. Zavia holds 379,671 digitized financial reports for Bulgaria companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Does Zavia offer an API for Bulgaria company data?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Bulgaria, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Is there a guide to verifying beneficial ownership in Bulgaria?
Zavia's Bulgaria beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.