TRACE GROUP HOLD PLC – PREFERRED EUROPEAN PARTNER

Trace Group Hold PLC is a leader of the Bulgarian construction market and recognized

European company that successfully develops all range of activities in the infrastructure sector,

investments, foreign trade and logistics. TRACE is a public company, member of the most significant

and influential chambers, trade organizations and chambers of commerce in Bulgaria.

The scope of activities of Trace consists of:

- Highways and roads;

- Underground construction;

- Railway infrastructure;

- Civil and military airports;

- Waste, water and solid waste treatment plants, landfills, large dams and power stations;

- Building infrastructure with wide profile;

- Gas distribution and energy facilities.

The international company „Trace International” Ltd. coordinates the foreign business market

operations of the holding with leading partners and financial institutions. Our top priority destinations

abroad are the Balkans, Central Europe, Middle East and mainly GCC region, Central Asia and Far

East countries.

Over the past five years the holding has gained stable experience on the Serbian construction

market as currently implements major infrastructure projects (sections of Trans European Motorways)

with contract value of over 95 million euro. “Trace Group Hold” PLC has proved itself as reliable and

predictable European partner for the Serbian national employers and international financial institutions

– the World Bank, EBRD, EIB, etc. Well-established relations with local and government Serbian

authorities have been set up too.

TRACE pursues coherent investment policy as has acquired 2 major and strategic road

construction companies – Trace PZP Nis AD and Trace PZP Vranje DOO. Both companies operate

on the territory of total 28 Serbian municipalities and perform maintenance of over 2 800 km. road

network in Serbia. Further investment is undertaken in technical facilities, construction equipment

machines and production bases. Currently our main assets include one of the biggest aggregate

quarries in the Republic of Serbia, 7 asphalt mixing plants, over 220 units of construction equipment,

modern administrative office and production buildings. In these two companies are engaged nearly

500 employees as only 4 of them are Bulgarian citizens.

Trace had successful privatization of a Belgrade company for design and supervision of

major water projects, founded branch office of the holding in the Republic of Serbia and established 2

subsidiaries in Belgrade with scope of activity in the infrastructure construction and commerce.

Trace held corporate social responsibility as on the territory of Serbia we have engaged

over 1 300 Serbian citizens in our companies; we support local educational, social and sport events

and initiatives. We are in a process of providing of scholarships for Serbian engineers that will

complete a master’s degree in Bulgaria. Trace has signed a contract for general sponsorship of the

most successful women's football club “Mašinac TRACE PZP”- Nis, which is a national pride of

Serbia with its achievements - champion of the former Yugoslavia, repeated champion of the

Republic of Serbia, vice champion in Europe.

Trace, in the presence of the prime ministers of Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of

Serbia, endows the Municipality of Dimitrovgrad in Serbia with a monument of the Bulgarian national

hero Vasil Levski within inauguration ceremony. This act became a symbol of the Bulgarian national

spirit in the region. From the Municipalities with predominantly Bulgarian population, we have

engaged a large number of employees in the Serbian structures of the holding

Trace is the event initiator and hosts an open Bulgarian – Serbian business forum “The role

of the business in the establishment of sustainable European practices for cross-border cooperation”.

Representatives of 15 Serbian municipalities participated in the event. Within the forum Trace

contributes to the successful implementation of initiatives on cross-border cooperation and support

the exchange of experience between Bulgarian and Serbian local authorities in the absorption of pre-

accession funds of the European Union

In the end of 2014 the international company of the holding “Trace International” LTD

received award for the most successful Bulgarian company in Serbia during the traditional Danube

business forum. In the last 14 years with the award are distinguished the most successful foreign

individuals and companies in the framework of “Road to the Top” initiative. Trace has ambition to

expand its presence in the Serbian market and to promote the economic and social cooperation

between both states.

In Central Europe our holding has positions in the water sector of the Czech Republic. Trace

participates in the extension of the WWTP in the airport of Prague and in construction of the plumbing

system in Benesov. The company has established a branch office in Prague and takes parts in

various new projects.

In Doha, Qatar Trace founded the company Redco Trace International, which applies advanced

technologies of stabilization in design and construction of roads and takes part in meetings with high-

level Qatari institutions and the Bulgarian state authorities. Trace took leading role in the Bulgarian

pavilion at the 8th World trade congress that took place there.