About IHB

IHB is a public limited company managing investment portfolio of companies from different industries. IHB aims to possess controlling interest over 51%, which gives the opportunity to determine the strategy and to achieve the strategic management of the companies from its portfolio. In partnership with other investors, IHB invests in projects in which it can have significant influence - up to 50%.
IHB pursues a permenent optimization of the investment portfolio. The investments are mainly in maritime transport, shipbuilding and ship repair, port activities, machine building and river cruises.
IHB is listed on the highest segment A on the official market of Bulgarian Stock Exchange - Sofia. IHB shares are one of the most liquid positions on the stock exchange and are included in all the Bulgarian indeces and in some indeces of the index families Dow Jones STOXX and Dow Jones Wilshire.

THE BEGINNING:
The company was established in 1996 as a privatization fund for the purpose of acquisition of shares in the capital of companies sold by the Government through the public privatization scheme.
After the end of the first wave of the public privatization process, in February 1998 Privatization Fund Bulgaria AD was transformed to a Holding Company in accordance with the Law of Commerce and was renamed to Industrial Holding Bulgaria PLC /IHB/.
THE ACTIVITIES:
IHB's main activities are acquisition, evaluation and sales of equity in companies, management of companies in its portfolio, financing IHB subsidiaries.
THE CAPITAL and SHAREHOLDERS:
IHB is the fifth privatization fund in terms of size of issued capital in investment bonds and number of shareholders among 81 privatization funds licensed in Bulgaria. The initial capital was BGN 2 654 985 and the founders were 110 000 shareholders. After several capital raisings the issued capital of IHB is BGN 58 282 079, distributed in 58 282 079 ordinary voting shares with a nominal value BGN 1 each.
IHB has over 55 000 natural and 150 legal persons, possessing respectively 13 % and 87 % from the voting shares. The four biggest shareholders holding over 5% of the voting shares posses 52 % and the free float is 48%.