Bulgartabac, the Bulgarian tobacco monopoly, will sell four of its biggest tobacco factories on the local stock market after proving unable to privatize them during the past three years.

Bulgartabac's factories in Plovdiv, Sofia, Stara Zagora and Blagoevgrad will be offered for sale on the stock market once parliament decides on the deadlines and conditions of the deals. They should be sold by the end of February, along with licenses to sell tobacco products. (cen)