Development and Competitiveness of Retail Chains in Bulgaria

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Keywords
retail chains, competitiveness

Summary
The development of commercial chains in Bulgaria was caused by the benefits they provide to customers. In the last two - three years there is strong interest of foreign retail chains to the Bulgarian market. National chains, in turn, expand its network of stores in various cities throughout the country, and some of them even think of expansion abroad.

The survival and the development of the commercial chains in a market with strong competition is connected with the identification and the use of sources of competition advantages as well as the permanent evaluation and analysis of their competitiveness – a subject of research in this work. Based on this conclusions are drawn and recommendations are made for increasing the competitiveness of the commercial chains.

JEL: M21
Pages: 15
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