| Type | Privately-held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | confectionery |
| Founder(s) | Petro Poroshenko |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Key people | Petro Poroshenko |
| Products | 200 various types of confectionery |
| Revenue | USD 1 billion (2010)[1] |
| Employees | 8 915 (including subsidiaries) |
| Website | http://www.roshen.com/ |
Roshen is a Ukrainian confectionery- manufacturing group, controlled by politician Petro Poroshenko. It united confectionery factories in Ukrainian cities of Kiev, Vinnytsia, Mariupol and Kremenchuk, as well as in Klaipėda (Lithuania) and Lipetsk (Russia). The name of the company is created from the last name of its owner, Poroshenko.
"ROSHEN" (depicted in capitalized Latinic only) is the umbrella brand of all of the corporation's products.
Roshen makes a wide range of confectionery, but is famous mostly by "Kyiv Vechirnij" chocolate candy and Kiev cakes, produced by the Karl Marx chocolate factory in Kiev. The corporation has a wide range of more affordable and less sophisticated products famous for high chocolate content.