leading international experience and local development knowledge


Investor

ZBS EOOD is an investment company, specializing in the retail sector. The investment aim of the company is to create a portfolio of retail projects in Bulgaria, suitable for investment by Western funds and bank institutions. The Bulgarian office was founded in 2006 and ZBS has assembled a team that combines leading international experience in the retail real estate with local development knowledge and expertise that enable us to adapt well proven retail format to the Bulgarian market.

ZBS is a member of the British Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and the International Council of the Shopping Centres. Managed by an Anglo-Bulgarian team led by CEO David Coward, former group operational director of a UK based private bank and Investment Director Mariella Ostend, a Bulgarian born UK Chartered accountant and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments.

www.zbs.bg/
Financial support

Strand construction is financed by Corporate Commercial Bank. In recent years, Corporate Commercial Bank is established as one of the fastest growing banks, combining tradition and future. Guiding principles in the work of the bank service quality, social responsibility and value creation for customers, shareholders, employees and society. The Bank's activities is focused on providing custom banking and integrated financial solutions prepared for the personal needs of all concerned.

www.corpbank.bg
Architects

Pod Architects is the main architect of the project and is in charge of the project design during the whole construction period so that the project delivery is according to the initial design concept of investor.

POD is founded by Paul Shedden and Stephen Harty, former partners of GMW and has a team of 15 architects and specialists. The Pod philosophy relates to establishing creative relationship with the client and thus finding the balance between the economic feasibility and architectural uniqueness of the project.

POD clients are British and European investors in several projects in different sectors and to name a few: prestigious shopping centre in Swindon, South terminal of Gatwick Airport, London, and two shopping centres in France and Austria.
­
www.pod-architects.com
General Contractor

Eurobuilding Engineering is located in Burgas and possesses the necessary equipment and the team contains highly experienced specialists. This guarantees the quality and quick construction of large and complicated project such as Strand.

Eurobuilding Engineering has extensive experience as a General contractor of projects located in the Black Sea area such as Orchid complex, Varna; Lukoil Bulgaria Hotel Complex, Pomorie; extension of Burgas Airport, new Sports Complex Chernomorets, Burgas and others.

www.eurobuildingengineering.com/
Leasing Agents

ZBS cooperates with the Bulgarian retail consultant- UBR Ltd. The company is specialising in the retail industry and provides a wide range of services to the retail industry.

Backed by leading shopping centre developers and major consulting firms UBR is a response to the increasing market need of professional retail expertise and services.

www.unicornretail.com ­
Marketing & PR

Archivision is a boutique agency coordinating on exclusive basis all aspects of the Marketing, PR and Advertising campaigns for a small number of high profile, large scale projects.

The Archivision team consists of with extensive experience in marketing, advertising, PR, copywriting and design. The company work closely with its clients in order to provide optimum publicity and market positioning in the retail and fashion sector.
Project Management

“PROJECT MANAGEMENT PERFEKT” is one of the leading companies in the project management field.

The company is with major activity of management and control of building investment projects. “PROJECT MANAGEMENT PERFEKT” is a kind of successor of the experience gained through the years by the rest of the members of the „PERFEKT GROUP” consortium, represents the realization of the ideas of the owners for offering complex organizational, technical and financial management of projects.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PERFEKT has managed Festa Barceló Hotel, Sofia; Iberostar Festa Panorama, Nessebar; Mirage Hotel, Burgas and many others.

www.perfektgroup.com
www.pmp-bg.com
Legal Adviser

­Latchezar Kolev, LL.M, founded Lega Art – a legal and consulting company with offices in Sofia and Varna. Lega Art’s 20 plus strong staff of lawyers and other specialists provides wide range of legal and investment services to high profile clients mainly in real estate investment sector. The company has obtained ISO 9001 certification.

www.lega-art.com ­