Bulgaria Schedule of Events - Nov 19 - Dec 19

* Wednesday, November 19 - Sofia: British low-cost air carrier easyJet holds a news conference on its first year of operations in Bulgaria.

* Wednesday, November 19 - Sofia: Austrian waste management company Saubermacher holds news conference after being ranked first in a tender for garbage collection in five districts of capital Sofia. (0800 GMT).

* Wednesday, November 19 - Sofia: Bulgarian Environment Minister Dzhevdet Chakarov and his Danish counterpart Troels Lund Poulsen hold a news conference preceding a conference on environment and climate change.

Wednesday, November 19 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release forecast for investments in manufacturing for 2009, compared to 2008.

Thursday, November 20 – Sofia: Drug maker Sopharma holds a shareholders' meeting (0900 GMT)

Friday, November 21 – Sofia: Central bank expected to release weekly foreign exchange reserves data.

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Bulgaria’s central bank to issue end-September gross foreign debt data (1100 GMT).

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Financial and industrial group Eurohold Bulgaria to release consolidated financial results for the third quarter.

Tuesday, November 25 - Sofia: Blue-chip car battery manufacturer MonBat to issue revenue and profit forecast for the last quarter of 2008.

Thursday, November 27 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release business sentiment data.

Friday, November 28 - Sofia: National Statistics Institute to release October producer price data.

Friday, November 28 - Sofia: Deadline by which the Finance Ministry is to release October budget balance data expires.

* Friday, December 19 - Sofia: Bulgarian road construction group Holding Roads holds an extraordinary general shareholders' meeting to vote on paying a bonus of 3.84 million levs ($2.5 million/2.0 million euro) to its supervisory board chairman Vassil Bozhkov.