History

In 2024, Stenik will continue to innovate and implement new technological solutions for our clients, contributing to their enhanced online presence and business development. With Cypho - our Magento theme, we will provide a faster start and an optimized budget for smaller and medium-sized retailers with the 'same' functionality.

In this new year, we will also bring Cypho to B2B. We eagerly anticipate introducing the first live mobile shopping applications for iOS & Android, based on the cross-platform technology Flutter, which will operate for our clients and, above all, improve the user experience.

In 2023, at Stenik, we charted new horizons. We successfully digitized numerous businesses for our clients and expanded our portfolio with satisfied retailers and B2B traders. We're proud to announce twice as many launched projects compared to the previous year. We continued the trend from 2022 by enhancing digitalization opportunities for various B2B traders through functionalities and customizations developed in Magento.

Determinedly, we worked on a new service - mobile applications for our clients and future ones, aiming to make them more competitive in the digital economy. This is particularly crucial in the fierce competition with foreign players entering the Bulgarian online market. We made Magento accessible to a broader range of traders, introducing our solution - the Cypho theme, suitable for both large and small to medium-sized businesses. The entire year's retrospective can be found on our blog.

Stenik continued to support local online commerce to thrive, ensuring end-users feel comfortable and secure. In 2022, we achieved the milestone of becoming the first Bulgarian company to be an official Hyvä Supplier. The Hyvä Storefront is a technological innovation that enhances the speed and intuitiveness of the online stores we develop for our clients. The first project where we implemented the Hyvä Storefront was for the largest online pharmacy in Bulgaria - Galen.

Concurrently with these innovations, we significantly expanded the Stenik team. We worked and continue to work diligently on the internal training of our eCommerce specialists and programmers, with a strong emphasis on internship programs. An increasing number of our clients appreciate our approach and way of working - a testament to this is the return of clients who have had experiences with other eCommerce companies

2020 has started bright for Stenik since, in addition to publicly announcing our partnership with Magento, as Magento Solution Partner, we have begun work on our first Magento Commerce project.

In 2020, we are ambitious to continue to certify our developers and eCommerce consultants to work with Magento 2, as we believe that quality projects are created by a quality and top-level team.

After many years of hard and focused work in the field of online commerce, Stenik became official partner of Magento - Magento Solution Partner.

This was a logical extension of the fact that Stenik has made an outstanding contribution to the development of online commerce in Bulgaria at the technical level and the consolidation of Magento as a top platform for large merchants.We have also entered into in-depth discussions with Magento and merchants so that for the first time a merchant in Bulgaria can integrate the paid version of Magento Commerce and get to the next level of e-commerce.

In 2018 we launched on YouTube & Facebook Stenik: Series 2 - a video series with helpful eCommerce tips for serious online merchants.

With the development of online commerce in Bulgaria the needs of our clients have increased. With the increase in their sales, the desire for Enterprise solutions is logical. During the year, we were able to gain the trust of major retailers and brands and work on eCommerce projects for Douglas Bulgaria, Lilly Doregeria Bulgaria and WMF.

During the year, we also payed a great deal of attention to our clients who wanted to expand abroad. We have set up a number of localized online stores in Romania and Greece.

In 2017, in Stenik, we managed to realize our first online shop for a customer based on the all-new Magento 2. The platform will provide exceptional opportunities for start and growth in online marketing. Our mission remains to optimize and customize Magento 2 for the needs of Bulgarian traders, as we did with the previous version of the eCommerce solution.

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In one decade STENIK developed over 700 projects for more than 600 clients, mainly Bulgarian. We are happy to have been instrumental in helping them expand their businesses and profit online! We created a unique, well-amalgamated and strongly motivated team of web-specialists that very few companies can boast. Our new corporate website www.stenikgroup.com launched in 2014 bears our new slogan “Quality over Quantity”, because we understand our customers’ need for good quality support. However, we are aware that quality cannot be achieved without having produced big quantities. This is why we have worked hard for 10 years and we will not stop here...

In one decade STENIK developed over 700 projects for more than 600 clients, mainly Bulgarian. We are happy to have been instrumental in helping them expand their businesses and profit online! We created a unique, well-amalgamated and strongly motivated team of web-specialists that very few companies can boast. Our new corporate website www.stenikgroup.com launched in 2014 bears our new slogan “Quality over Quantity”, because we understand our customers’ need for good quality support. However, we are aware that quality cannot be achieved without having produced big quantities. This is why we have worked hard for 10 years and we will not stop here...

We continued to reaffirm ourselves as #1 eCommerce company in Bulgaria by developing large-scale online stores such as Ozone.bg and offering numerous free consultations for our clients on the STENIK blog. We attached great importance to developing our mobile apps team implementing a dozen impressive mobile applications and mobile versions of web-pages and online stores. During the year, we participated as presenters in numerous workshops and conferences among them SocialMe WorkShop, Sell More Online, etc. To stay in touch with the latest international trends, in October a big group from STENIK visited one of the biggest eCommerce Expos in Europe - eCommerce Expo London. We learned a lot about online stores and mobile applications and established contacts with numerous international developers and consultants.

We became the leading Bulgarian web-agency developing large-scale online stores such as Koketna and Hyppoland. All this was made possible thanks to the Magento eCommerce platform and STENIK’s developers. We developed the corporate web-pages of Metro Bulgaria, Karol and Euromarket using the CMS systems StenikCMS and TYPO 3. In just six months, our applications TAXI Bulgaria and Happy Name Day registered over 40.000 downloads for iPhone and Android and remained in the top 3 of App Store and Google Play for a very long period. We delivered presentations at the SocialMe WorkShop, visited the eCommerce expositions in Munich and London, gave interviews for BG On Air, TV7 and SocialEvo. Our successful web-design performance was acknowledged and we received an award by the Bulgarian Web Association and BGSite 2012. We sponsored a workshop on Web Security organized by the Association Voice of Youth in collaboration with Directorate General for Countering Organized Crime, while Stefan Chobanov sat on the jury and supported a competition for young web talents in Montana.

We organized two open-doors days for web interns that attracted over 150 young web talents. This initiative grew into the Stenik Development Center offering opportunities to 60 web developers to improve their skills over a 4-month period. The success of a company goes hand in hand with the personal development of its managers. Stefan and Dimitаr attended a number of domestic and international web events as presenters, exhibitors and visitors. Among them were Internet World, OnlineBiz, Digitex, Webit, DesignDay, etc. In addition to developing dozens of successful web-pages and internet stores, we made a robust start in the development of mobile websites and applications for Android and iOS.

Our accounts, partners, friends and fans made 2010 the most successful year in STENIK’s history – we doubled the size of our team and in April we moved into a twice bigger and much more comfortable office on 50 Gotse Delchev Boulevard. In 2010, as part of our CSR initiatives, we donated a website to the Directorate General for Countering Organized Crime (www.cybercrime.bg) which aims at preventing cybercrime. We also developed a webpage for the social institution for children without parents in Ludogorie, and we launched an initiative for designing the official webpage of the 91st German Language High School. We launched the unprecedented Stenik: Series initiative - a series of videos with free of charge consultations for customers looking for the most adequate company to develop their webpage or online store. We established very close relations with the biggest Bulgarian hosting company Host.bg. STENIK became the official design partner, exhibitor and presenter in the only Bulgarian exposition for web-design and web-hosting companies WebXpo that took place in June in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna.

In the height of the economic crisis when all companies were downsizing, STENIK doubled its team. And the results were quick to come – we were approached by numerous prospective clients and were commissioned to develop a record number of web-pages and online stores. Thanks to our very active online campaign in the social media, we won over a number of new fans, clients and friends and gained popularity in our industry. STENIK’s blog won third place in the prestigious Best Corporate Blog competition. STENIK established a very strong presence in the online industry. We participated in WebExpo - the first web-design expo ever held in Bulgaria as part of the June Plovdiv Fair, and in September we organized an open-doors day in our office. A fruitful design partnership between STENIK and the Career in Bulgaria Forum marked the end of the year.

That year was extremely successful for STENIK Group. Our sales increased threefold and we marked record turnover levels. And because we are well-aware that good business nurtures on true professionals, the STENIK family doubled in size. We also moved into a new avant-garde office where each of our 250 clients could enjoy a cup of fresh coffee. It is worth mentioning that in 2008 we established sustainable international business relations and not only in Germany. Our web-pages are enjoyed in the US, UK, Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Israel, British Islands and Greece. And last but not least, 2008 will be remembered with the long-term cooperation agreement signed with the German web-design company nwebs GbR.

A key year during which we fully revised our logo and web-page. It was time for a grand new beginning. STENIK altered its image and got a new office, which proved to be very lucky. In it we met our first true employees and closed some extremely important deals. Our team was joined by Zlatan Abadzhiev who plays a key role in managing the company and its projects to this day. In 2007, companies such as Domain Boyar, Amotera, CableCommerce, RISK Electronic, Western Union Bulgaria, Top Drinks and many other important clients came onboard. In addition, the same year Nikolay Dimitrov settled permanently in Karlsruhe (Germany) and STENIK Group positioned itself strongly on the German market.

The Software Company Bianor commissioned us to develop several web-projects, which served as an impetus for STENIK’s young enthusiasts. This marked the beginning of a successful partnership that is still very much alive to this day. Stefan and Nikolay departed for Germany to get degrees from the Karlsruhe University. The timing was right to get onboard a new partner – Dimitаr and to set up STENIK GROUP OOD.

This year will stay in our memories forever. STENIK was commissioned for the first time to develop the company web-pages of Kalini Travel Agency, Unisnab EOOD (Plovdiv) and Serena OOD (Kystendil). This boosted our self-confidence and we approached and got onboard our first large account – the FANTASTICO Retail Chain. After that the events started following their natural course – clients, commissions, recognition.The online store Pakostnik.com won fourth place in the Technologies and Market category of the Computer Space international annual competition and is a leader to this day in online sales of products for infants!In 2014, STENIK still works with FANTASTICO and PAKOSTNIK!

Second-year Sofia Technical University students Stefan Chobanov and Nikolay Dimitrov joined their designer and developer skills under the brand name of STENIK. Their first successfully implemented webpage project - Studentskigrad.net was nominated and awarded a certificate in the XVIth edition of the Computer Space International Competition.