Business-plans for Romania, Moldova, Rusia, Ucraina and Bulgaria often include a lot of uncertainties. More exactly, this concerns the calculation of costs, as well as the time frame for the respective business plan. There often appear unexpected costs for personal and for leases for offices in Iasi, Bucharest, Chisinau, Moscow, Kiev, Sofia. The costs for leasing a well-situated office in the center of Moscow are 300-500% higher than in Munich, Hamburg, Dusseldorf or Frankfurt. Qualified personnel earns after deduction more than his counterpart in Germany. The business registration often takes more time than planed beforehand.
We help you with the development of your business-plans. If you have already developed your business plan, we may also check whether it contains realistic or un-realistic assumptions.
We certainly also advice you, on how you might probably reduce the costs and how to accelerate organizational and planning tasks, like the registration of your business

MARKET ANALYSIS

The market of the countries mentioned above may be interesting for you, but before you take a market entry decision you have to get more information in the form of a revealing market analysis. Different aspects of the market studies comprise the following:
Your Competitors
We analyze the business activity of your competitors on the market in detail.
Your Customers
We do not only analyze your potential clients and their business development but also the overall development of your industry sector and your potential. Questions of long- or short term contracts between current clients and their suppliers are as important as the overall willingness of clients to change their supplier.

Distribution and Partners
The distribution structure is often a crucial factor, which features specific regional characteristics. Often the question is, whether one should have own sales force or cooperate with a distributor. Especially in case of the latter, an efficient controlling is required.
Practical Aspects of Business Set-Up
Our service offer certainly does not end with the completion of the theoretical work, but we also show our clients in an implementation-oriented part of our analysis how to apply the practical aspects of business set-up. This comprises questions such as availability of qualified personnel, cost for office rent and overall financial needs as well as legal-bureaucratic obstacles on the market from the countries named above.
We offer perfect solutions. That is why we would be glad to discuss with you personally about your individual requirements for a market analysis.

GENERAL CONSULTING

Entering the market in Russia, Ukraine, Moldavian Republic, and Bulgaria is not comparable to Poland or Hungary. Business is done differently here, significantly faster and in a less foreseeable way. Therefore it is really advisable to get to know the particularities of the market named above, beforehand.
Perfect analysis about Romania, Russia, Moldova, Ukraine and Bulgaria in your company
We prepare you for the market in the countries named above by providing you with all of the necessary aspects needed for a successful market entry and we offer you to participate in our customized workshops about how the politics reflects in your company.
We propose the following workshop topics:

Further services in Romania

Sofia Consulting offers the City Halls management services in order to get European funds. The cooperation between countries is proper for local administrations and Sofia Consulting has the ability to identify partners and solutions for projects.
Publishing of journals for communities, making web pages and presentation to the world of villages and small towns represent some of our activities.