COMPANY PROFILE

LIMASOL Consulting Agency is a private management consultancy company, specialized in project management, business development, corporate management, marketing, environmental management and training activities. It has 15 years of experience in providing consulting and training services for Bulgarian and foreign companies and organizations.

Range of Activities and Services

LIMASOL provides support to its clients in the following fields:

•  Project management and access to international investment programs
    •  Elaboration of EU projects
    •  Development and implementation of projects, funded by other donors
    •  Technical Assistance, monitoring and reporting

•  Sustainable urban development
    •  Mobility management and SUMP
    •  Housing policy
    •  Urban ecology and biodiversity

•  Environmental management
    •  EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) – State Appraiser License
    •  N1092 of Ministry of Environment – Lucia Ilieva
    •  EMS – ISO 14001 training and implementation

•  Corporate business development and SME support
    •  Management and organizational consultancy services
    •  Strategic and operational marketing
    •  Promotion policy development and fair participation assistance
    •  REFA-standard production and personnel management
    •  Business-planning

•  ICT-solutions
    •  New generation web based Information Platform. Free development for corporate customers.
    •  Platform description:
Data base centric information platform for rapid development, quality, secure deployment and easy legacy application migration and abilities to the web. Executes the business logic on the server and virtualizes the UI to its clients (plain browsers). In addition it introduces a unique approach for decoupling the application and the logics from the presentation layer. The unique separation between the application and the UI rendering enables simultaneous support for multiple presentation layers with the same source code. Available presentation layers are plain browser DHTML, Silverlight, smart client WinForms. Mobile technologies WPF and Flash are supported as well.

Empty Client Platform Concept The platform implements a unique “Empty Client” approach which is a paradigm shift that provides the following benefits:
1. Military grade security.
2. No code generation; nor at coding time neither at runtime.
3. Smallest footprint on the client (~200kb).
4. No installation on the client.
5. Accessible from any plain browser.

It allows integradtion of wide range web based information system without any functional or structure limitations. Easy user interaction and greath usability.

•  Marketing
    •  Branch marketing studies and strategic planning (Building Industry;
    •  Food industry, Textile, ITC-sector, Machinery, Tourism, etc.)
    •  Professional associations marketing and development strategies
    •  Social marketing
    •  Cultural marketing and art management
    •  Tourism marketing and management
    •  Site marketing

•  Training activities – the company is a leading member of the Consortium “European Training Seminars”, which provides twice a month seminars for SME, professional associations and local authorities on EU-issues (integration and cohesion processes, Structural funds, EU public procurement, Framework programs, CIT, etc.)

•  Principal clients
During the last several years LIMASOL has been working for important foreign clients:
    •  GTZ – Germany
    •  REFA - Germany
    •  GOPA Consultants – Germany
    •  WEISS Consulting – Germany
    •  Pohl Consulting - Germany
    •  TEQ Chemnitz – Germany
    •  The German- Bulgarian Industrial and Trade Chamber
    •  REC – Hungary
    •  Environmental Policy & Program Unit – EPTA, Greece
    •  EU PHARE Program
    •  SWECO-Sweden
    •  OSI Europe - Budapest
    •  Danone, etc.

On the domestic market the consulting agency has consulted more than 800 Bulgarian companies in all economic branches. Among the LIMASOL local clients are:
    •  Ministries and state agencies – Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Regional Development, National Center for Education and Qualification, Privatization Agency, Agency for SME
    •  Municipalities
    •  OBB (Unified Bulgarian Bank)
    •  Universities – Economic University, University of Forestry,
    •  National Art Academy
    •  Scientific and cultural institutions – National Palace of Culture, Art galleries, Federation of Scientific and Technical Unions
    •  Professional Associations and other NGO-s.

The president Prof. Lucia Ilieva is a CMC (Certified Management Consultant) and a REFA certified trainer. The agency permanently works with 10 part-time employed consultants in different industrial branches.

Prof. Ilieva is a FLC on multinational and trans-boarder projects at the Ministry of Regional Development. She is a member of the Council at the Parliament Commission on Euro-funding and a National Coordinator of EPOMM-network in Bulgaria.