Interview - Philips Eyes Top Spot on Bulgaria's Coffee Maker Market

SOFIA (Bulgaria), August 11 (SeeNews) - Philips will aim to become the top coffee-maker brand in Bulgaria over the next 18 months after adding the offerings of espresso expert Saeco to its local portfolio earlier this year, the Dutch company's country manager said. "We are extremely satisfied with the launch in early May of our Philips/Saeco dual-branding project in Bulgaria and sales so far have posted a double-digit growth in terms of both volume and value," Radmila Fileva, who also oversees the company's consumer lifestyle divisions in Macedonia and Albania, told SeeNews in an interview at her office in Sofia.