...Vesselina Dimitrova; Teodoro Gallucci; Georgi Marinov; Petyo Boshnakov Purpose Identifying the barriers that hinder the circularity in the wine industry in Bulgaria and proposing a preliminary circular economy (CE) index for ranking in order of importance the barriers for providing a suitable...

...Dr Stefano Pascucci, Dr Liesbeth Dries, Professor Konstantinos Karantininis and Professor Gaetano Martino; Kristine Van Herck; Johan Swinnen Purpose – In the past decade, there has been a dramatic decline in agricultural employment in Bulgaria and several reports have pointed at supply chain...

...Sanda Renko; Claudio Vignali; Zhelyu Vladimirov Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the factors for the implementation of the efficient food quality and safety management system in the food industry and the food retail sector in Bulgaria. Design/methodology/approach Through...

...Stephen Bainbridge Wine production has been a tradition in the rich and varied land of Bulgaria’s countryside for centuries. Vinprom, the state wine producing organisation, began to recognise some of the problems that could be caused by adhering to state policy and perceived a need for improved...

...Graham Brookes The fundamental political and economic reforms taking place in Eastern and Central Europe pose some difficult questions for the future of the agri‐food industries in Hungary and Bulgaria. A major sector facing the problems of transition to a market economy is wine,traditionally...