Bulgaria Schedule of Events - Nov 25 - Jan 5

* Tuesday, November 25 – Sofia: Second Business Information Forum organised by SeeNews to open in Sofia Hilton Hotel (www.bif.seenews.com).

* Tuesday, November 25 – Berlin (Germany): Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev to participate in the second parliamentary evening of Germany's Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, meets chairman of German Bundestag Norbert Lammert, RWE's CEO Juergen Grossman. (to November 26)

* Tuesday, November 25 – Sofia: Bulgaria’s food and beverages industry association organizes the Environment and Energy Efficiency seminar (0730 GMT-1300 GMT).

* Tuesday, November 25 – Sofia: Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry, the central bank and the Financial Supervision Commission organise a conference titled "Changes in European legislation on financial services: impact on the Bulgarian financial market."

* Tuesday, November 25 – Sofia: Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin opens public consultations on challenges and future of Bulgaria’s textile industry. (0800GMT)

* Tuesday, November 25 – Sofia: Mall of Sofia presents its new general manager Natan Lavi. (1000 GMT)

Tuesday, November 25 - Zagreb: First annual conference on private equity and venture capital in southeastern Europe takes place.

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.

* Monday, December 1 – Sofia: Central bank expected to release weekly foreign exchange reserves data as of November 28.

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.

Tuesday, December 23 - Sofia: Last trading day of Bulgarian Stock Exchange BSE for 2008.

Monday, January 5 - Sofia: First trading day of Bulgarian Stock Exchange BSE for 2009.