The new address as of 23 January 2012: Sopharma Business Towers, 5, Lachezar Stanchev Str., Tower B, Floors 12-13, Sofia 1756.

The UDF is established as a joint stock company by Societe Generale Expressbank, Elana Holding, Elana Investment and Balkan Advisors, namely the members of a Consortium led by Société Générale Expressbank, to invest approximately EUR 18.8 million of JESSICA funds in urban development projects in 6 major cities in Bulgaria.

From 24 December 2011 to 2 January 2012 ELANA head office and investment centres will not open for customer service. There will be an investment Centre in Sofia available to customers from 27 to 30 December 2011 and ELANA Trading International Markets department will operate with specific working hours.

SMEs can apply to cover by grant 60-70% of the total investment in equipment or upgrade for expansion and introduction of new products.  The deadline for submission of projects is 20th December 2011.

ELANA offices will open on 26th September 2011. ELANA Trading International Markets Department continues to function during the holidays with its regular working hours.

Due to bridging of holidays for the national holiday of 6th September, offices will be closed from 3rd to 6th September. However, ELANA Trading International Markets Department will operate in accordance with its regular working hours.

According to the newly adopted renewable energy law, amended fee-in tariffs for electricity produced from renewable energy are inrtoduced as of 1 July.

"Compliance with internationally recognized standards and introduction of management systems" will fund investment and services related to introduction of ERP or other management systems as well as certification  to complay with EU and international standards. maximum grant is up to EUR 200 000.

On 21 April ELANA offices will be open for customers 8.30 - 14.00 h. 22 - 25 April - closed for Easter holidays.

Information is published about a forthcoming grant scheme on supporting preparation and implementation of international standards and management systems for Bulgarian business.

Look at the open calls for proposals for industry and agriculture in 2011

3rd March is a national holiday. On 2nd March offices will be open for customers till 14:00 h.

ELANA Trading is the recommended brokerage to the customers of Populyarna kasa-95, the brokerage that decided to close financial business earlier this year. This is the second time when a brokerage closing business on the Bulgarian market recommends ELANA Trading for transfer of customers. In 2009 KD Securities transferred its investors following the Slovenian KD Group decision to restructure brokerage services.

ELANA Trading and Saxo Bank released annual predictions on financial markets for 2011. The overall view of the analysts of both financial institutions is positive for 2011 with a global economy recovery and a profitable year of investments in stocks, USD, oil and gold.

ELANA Money Market Fund wrapped up 2010 with an annual yield of 8.56%, which is the best return among low-risk funds on the local market.

For the fifth year in a row ELANA Trading was awarded by the Bulgarian Stock Exchange for the annual number of deals made on the Bulgarian stock market.

ELANA Investment Centre - Vitosha Business Centre will welcome customers with regular working hours. Investment centres at Rakovski St. and Business Park Sofia will be closed for the period. Outside Sofia, centres in Ruse and Varna will be closed, the others will open with regular workng hours. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY 2011!

On 8th December 2010 The Banker Weekly announced its traditional annual awards for banks, brokerages and asset managers on the Bulgarian market.

Grant procedure BG161PO003- 2.2.01. „Support for creation and development of business incubators” within OP Competitiveness opens today for project applications till 28 March 2011.

The grant procedure 2007BG161PO003/1.1.1-01/ “Support for the creation and development of innovative start-up companies” within OP Competitiveness was closed today for applications.  A new procedure is expected to start in December 2010 aiming at support of the development of innovations by start-ups.

As of 22 November 2010, Monday, ELANA Investment Centre - Business Park Sofia gets back into operation as a customer service centre.

The new high-risk profile fund of ELANA Fund Management, ELANA Global Equity Fund, will be launched on 15th November 2010, Monday.

Chairman of the Board of ELANA Financial Holding Kamen Kolchev was selected to be a member of the new board of the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (CEIBG) at the General assembly of the organization on 4th November 2010.

Grants are available for forest creation, maintanence, restoration and prevention.

ELANA offices will be closed for business on 22.09.2010; ELANA Trading International Markets Dept. will function with regular working hours

Measures 321 and 322 will accept project proposals till 22 October 2010.

ELANA offices will be closed for business on 6.09.2010; ELANA Trading International Markets Dept. will function with regular working hours.

Current calls for proposals from OP Environment

Three applications for solar parks (measure 312) and one for agricultural equipment (measure 121) were approved within Rural Development Programme in August.

Tsvetoslav Tsachev on behalf of ELANA Trading and Christian Tegllund Blaabjerg from Saxo Bank comment H1 and the developments with the most popular assets – stocks, gold, oil.

Information about new tender procedures within OP Environment and OP Regional Development is published.

The new Agency for Credit Ratings and Analyses will hold approx. 50% share of the national credit ratings market.

24th May is a national holiday in Bulgaria – The Day of Slavonic Alphabet and Bulgarian Culture – ELANA offices will be closed for business.

6th and 7th May are official holidays in Bulgaria and ELANA offices will be closed for business except International Markets Department of brokerage ELANA Trading which will continue functioning with its regular working hours’ schedule. On 5th May, Wednesday, customers will be welcome to ELANA offices until 13.30 h.

Advent International, a leading global private equity firm, announced today that its squeeze out proposal for approximately 1% of the shares in Devin AD (“Devin”), Bulgaria’s leading mineral water bottler and distributor of soft drinks, at BGN 3.5 per share was approved by the Financial Supervision Commission.

The official Easter holidays are from 2nd to 5th April (Friday – Monday). All ELANA offices will be closed for business on the official holidays except for brokerage ELANA Trading, International Markets Department in view of the working hours of international exchanges.

Shareholders who accepted the TOB: 311 with total number of 1 393 699 shares.

On 26th January 2010 analysts from ELANA Trading and Saxo Bank presented “Myth & Reality About Trading on International Financial Markets” featuring predictions about the most popular assets in 2010 and specific trading ideas to help investors benefit from the markets status this year.

The global private equity firm Advent International launched a tender offer for approximately 9.9% of the shares in Devin AD (“Devin”), Bulgaria’s leading mineral water bottler and distributor of soft drinks, at BGN 3.5 per share.

ELANA Fund Management topped the annual Bulgarian fund managers ranking by the local Banker Weekly for a 4th year in a row and was awarded again The Fund Manager of the Year.

Advent International, the global private equity firm, filed yesterday a tender offer in relation to its intended acquisition of approximately 9.9% of the shares in Devin AD at the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission (FSC).

ELANA Fund Management’s ELANA Money Market Fund took 2009 Business New Europe Magazine Award for The Best Money Market/Fixed Income Fund within the annual CEE & CIS funds survey.

ELANA Eurofund, the low-risk fund in euro of ELANA Fund Management, was registered for trading on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) on 4th August.

The new home of the centre is located at 2, Macedonia Sq., Floor 2, Blagoevgrad 2700.

The office of ELANA Investment Centre-Bourgas will close for public for 2 months due to local streets reconstruction.

ELANA Eurofund, a low-risk mutual fund in euro, will start public offering of shares on 1 July 2009.

On 29th May 2009 the head of Bureau Veritas Certification – Bulgaria Mr. Kalin Panev handed over to Ms Kristina Tsvetanska, Executive Director of ELANA Investment, the documents for awarding ISO 9001: 2008 certification to the consultancy company of ELANA.

On 18th May 2009 the Deputy Minister of Economy and Energy Anna Yaneva handed over a certificate for Class A Investment for Ivaylovgrad Wind Park to Ivan Gerginov, Officer with procuration and head of the renewables division at ELANA Holding.

On 29 April 2009 The Financial Supervision Commission approved the public offering of shares of the 7th ELANA fund – low risk ELANA Eurofund denominated in euro.

ELANA Investment Centre - Ruse moves to a new office as of the beginning of May.

ELANA offices will be closed during the official holidays from 1st May to 6th May 2009. ELANA Trading International Markets Department will operate with its usual working hours during the holidays.

ELANA Holding, the renewable energy business division of ELANA, will conclude contracts with investors for turn-key implementation of 50 solar power stations by the end of 2009.

On 17th April, Friday, ELANA service centres will be open for customers from 8.45 am to 1 pm. ELANA Trading customers for international markets will be provided with services till 9.30 pm.

A total of 24 solar projects applying for funding from the EU Rural Development Programme were developed and submitted by ELANA Investment for evaluation by Agriculture State Fund.

ELANA Trading signed an agreement on 2 April with KD Securities, the Bulgarian brokerage of the Slovenian KD Group, to be the recommended broker for the transfer of its current customers’ assets upon ceasing operation in Bulgaria.

In mid-March 2009 the specialized EU funding consultant ELANA Investment submitted 100th application assigned by a customer, at the Agriculture State Fund, The Rural Development Programme.

As of 9 February ELANA Trading offers a new consultancy service – personalised investment advice for traders on Bulgarian Stock Exchange and international markets.

ELANA Money Market Fund wrapped up 2008 by achieving a return for investors of 7.87% for the period of January to December which registered the best result on the Bulgarian fund market for the year.

ELANA Fund Management topped the annual Bulgarian fund managers ranking by the local Banker Weekly for a 3rd year in a row and was awarded The Fund Manager of the Year.

Visit the new website of ELANA Trading analyses offering special benefits for ELANA customers!

As of 20th October 2008 ELANA investment centre at Kuzman Shapkarev Street will change address moving into a new office again in the very centre of Sofia – 96, Rakovski St.

The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of ELANA Eurofund on 18th September decided to distribute 2007 profit worth BGN 444 058 as dividends. The gross dividend per share will be announced on 2nd October and the dividends will be made payable as of 20th October.

The last date for deals with shares of Eurofund and ELANA High Yield Fund on the Bulgarian Stock exchange is 14 August 2008.

On 1 September 2008 at the Central Military Club in Sofia ELANA Eurofund and ELANA High Yield Fund will hold their Annual General Meetings of Shareholders.

Purchase orders for shares of the capital-protected Horizon Commodity 1 Fund in its secondary market are accepted by 30 July, 3 pm in all ELANA centres throughout the country. The fund was launched by ELANA Fund Management back in June and offered in the period of 9 June to 4 July fund shares for the basic value of EUR 100 (fees not incl.). After this initial period of subscription, Horizon Commodity 1 continues to function as a regular open-end fund – shares can be issued or redeemed anytime at prices calculated twice a month.

ELANA Agricultural Land Opportunity Fund REIT (ELANA ALOF) was awarded The REIT with the Best Corporate Governance 2007 at the last night 6th annual ceremony of the Association of Investors for awarding the best corporate governance practice in the Bulgarian financial industry.

ELANA Fund Management launches the first capital-protected fund designed for the Bulgarian market offering 100% protection of the investment at the date of maturity in 3 years.

ELANA Trading started an information campaign about the changes in trading with the introduction of XETRA on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange to support the brokers’ customers in the smooth adaptation after 16 June 2008.

The assets under management of the 6th ELANA fund, ELANA Dollar Fund, went over USD 1 mln in the end of April 2008 - as of 30.04.2008 a total of USD 1.2 mln was under maangement, being accumulated only in the last 3 months. The low-risk fund in US dollars was started on 1 February 2008. Yield results are to be published 6 months after the start of public offering – in August 2008.

ELANA Money Market Fund started publishing yield data as of the beginning of May 2008 after reaching a period of 6 months since the beginning of public offering. The accumulated yield of the fund from the start of public offering on 31.10.2007 till 12 May 2008 got to 3.98%.

Out of a total of 64 new subscribers to the Internet platform COBOS for trading on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange in April 2008 – 37 customers – belong to ELANA Trading.

Out of a total of 61 applications submitted in the end of April for Modernisation of farms within the EU programme for the Development of Rural regions,a total of 20 were submitted by customers of ELANA Investment who has developed the business plans and consulted the projects’ development.

22-years old student in engineering and energy sector studies Deyan Bararov is the 1000th customer of ELANA Trading in trading on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange through the Internet platform of the local stock market COBOS. He won the announced by ELANA Trading prize of BGN 1000 investment for trading (approx. EUR 500).

On 11 April, Friday, ELANA Financial Holding will have reduced working hours untill 2 p.m.

The management of ELANA Financial Holding reported the company financial results 2007 at a press conference held on 19 March 2008 when ELANA experts also outlined their expectations for the trends on the markets of the group operations.

The management of ELANA Financial Holding presented on 19 March 2008 the financial results 2007 of the group of companies and announced its strategic targets for development of each of the units.

In the end of 2007 ?LANA separated its financial services into ELANA Financial Holding and organized all its other business activity into the “mirror” structure of ELANA Holding. The vision for future development of ELANA Financial Holding is related to listing the company on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange and making it public.
The initial public offering of the company would be planned not earlier than the second half of the year.

All ELANA Holding companies wrapped up 2007 with revenue of a total of BGN 49,3 mln (~ EUR 25 mln) which represented a 50% growth compared to 2006 (~ BGN 32,8 mln). The total net profit of the holding for 2007 amounted at approx. BGN 7,5 mln (EUR 4 mln) representing a profit growth of 180% compared to the previous year (2006: ~BGN 2,7 mln).

ELANA Fund Management wrapped up February 2008 with the biggest amount of assets among the local asset managers reporting the total of BGN 107 130 076 assets under management within 6 Elana mutual funds (as of 29.02.2008).

On 27 February 2008 at the International Banks, Investments, Money Fair in Plovdiv, ELANA’s 5th mutual fund ELANA Money Market Fund was awarded Financial Product of 2007 in the prize category of Investment Products.

ELANA Trading is introducing a new price list for its services while also widening the portfolio of offers for its customers. Options on futures are offered now on the local market as well as trading on nearly 20 stock exchanges in Europe, US, Asia and Australia.

The shares of the 6th mutual fund of ELANA Fund Management – the low risk ELANA Dollar Fund – started offering as of the beginning of February 2008. ELANA Dollar Fund is the second mutual fund of ELANA denominated in USD.

The 11th ELANA investment centre opened doors for customers in Business Park Sofia in the beginning of February 2008. This is the 3rd ELANA investment centre in Sofia and the other 8 are located in major regional business locations throughout the country – Plovdiv, Varna, Bourgas, Stara Zagora, Blagoevgrad, Rousse, Pleven and Shoumen.

ELANA Trading signed a contract with Thomson Financial to deliver market analyses, corporate profiles and recommendations regarding the companies on the Bulgarian stock exchange.

The Bulgarian Stock exchange announced that on 23 January was set to be the start of trading of ENEMONA shares with a BSE code ENM.

The traditional annual prizes of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange rated ELANA Trading in the top 3 of the Bulgarian investment intermediaries for the year.

The IT expert Georgi Paroushev won the top prize in the virtual stock market game of Dnevnik Daily – CITY. The prize was BGN 10 000 from ELANA Trading which was handed over to the winner by Radoslava Maslarska, the executive director, at a special event organized by Dnevnik Daily.

For a second year in a row ELANA Fund Management was ranked The Asset Manager of the Year by Banker Weekly annual ranking of the Bulgarian asset managers based on a set of performance criteria measured quarterly.

The initial public offering of 2 mln new shares of Enemona was scheduled for 26th November 2007 after the State Gazette publication regarding the IPO terms and a notice in a national daily came out on 16 November.

The prospectus for the initial public offering of 2 mln new shares of Enemona was approved by the Financial Supervision Commission on 31 October 2007.

A total of 6 new investment projects of SMEs developed and consulted by ELANA Investment won the bid within the Phare grant scheme for support of competitiveness capacity of SMEs, Phase II.

ELANA Trading and Overgas Capital signed an agreement for offering a share secured credit especially for the customers of the investment intermediary who own shares in BG40 companies as well as for investors in all 5 ELANA mutual funds.

ELANA Money Market Fund is the new and the 5th mutual fund of ELANA Fund Management that will start public offering in a month after getting its license by the Financial Supervision Commission last week.

The first asset manager in the country, ELANA Fund Management (2002), reported approx. BGN 124 mln assets under management in mid-September 2007 .

The investors in ELANA Agricultural Land Opportunity Fund REIT have yielded a rate of return of 73% for the past 8 months of 2007. This is the only REIT in the country, which is included in all 4 Bulgarian Stock Exchange indices.

The Central Depositary registered the new 3 mln shares of DEVIN following the IPO performed earlier in July 2007. The shares were registered on 29th August and documents for a registration by the Financial Supervision Commission were filed on the next day.

ELANA Trading signed an agreement with REUTERS for delivering profiles and recommendations about companies listed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange.

ELANA Trading performed private placement of bonds for the real estate company Intercapital Property Development with maturity period of 3 years at the amount of EUR 5 mln.

By a decision as of 16th August 2007 the Smolyan Regional Court registered the increase of capital of Devin from BGN 14 891 306 to BGN 17 891 306 following the issuance of the new 3 mln ordinary dematerialized shares with face value of BGN 1 each.

ELANA High Yield Fund reported a total of BGN 20,79 mln net assets in the end of July and became the third out of 4 ELANA funds with accumulated investments of over BGN 20 mln.

As of 31st July 2007, ELANA Agricultural Opportunity Fund REIT (EAOF) reported a total of 20 430 ha agricultural land purchased, which makes it the first REIT on the stock market with over 20 000 ha land acquired.

The orders for subscription of shares of Devin exceeded 11 times the offered quantity within the IPO on 25th July at the placement price per share of BGN 6.10 (EUR 3.12).

By the end of June, ELANA Agricultural Land Opportunity Fund’s shares have reached record values, bringing 50.91% capital gains to its shareholders since the beginning of the year.

The orders for subscription for shares in the public offering of up to 3 mln new ordinary dematerialized shares of DEVIN AD and up to 450 000 existing already issued shares owned by the majority shareholder Devin Beteiligungs GmBH with face value of BGN 1 each will be accepted in the course of 1 day on 25th July 2007. The management of the company has decided to offer a placement price range of BGN 5 to BGN 8 per share.

The prospectus of the initial public offering of up to 3 450 000 new ordinary dematerialized shares from the capital of Devin JSC was approved by the Financial Supervision Commission on 3rd of July 2007. The current capital of the leading company on the bottled water and soft drinks market DEVIN will increase its current capital of BGN 14,891,306 (˜ EUR 7,613,804) to BGN 17,891,306 (˜ EUR 9,147,680) by the issue of 3,000,000 new ordinary dematerialized shares with face value of BGN 1.00 (˜ EUR 0.51) each.