Roshen

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Roshen Confectionery Corporation
Type Privately held company
Industry confectionery
Founded 1996
Founder(s) Petro Poroshenko
Headquarters Kiev, Ukraine
Area served Europe, Asia, North America[1]
Key people Petro Poroshenko
Products 200 various types of confectionery
Revenue Increase USD 1 billion (2010)[2]
Employees 10 000 (2012, including subsidiaries)[3]
Website http://www.roshen.com/

Roshen Confectionary Corporation (Ukrainian: Кондитерська корпорація "Рошен") is a Ukrainian confectionery manufacturing group, controlled by Petro Poroshenko. The leading manufacturer of confectionery products in the country,[4] it united factories in Ukrainian cities of Bershad, 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.

As of 2012, Roshen Corporation was ranked 18th in the "Candy Industry Top 100" list of world's largest confectionery companies.[3] It has a total annual production volume exceeding 410,000 tonnes.[1][5] Which it exports to Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the United States, Canada, Germany and Israel.[5]

History

Since March 2013, Roshen began co-production with a contract manufacturer in the European Union (namely in Hungary).[6][7]

Since July 2013, Russia has banned all Roshen imports due to unsatisfying packaging labelling.[1][8][9][10] Soon after Roshen products were also checked in Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova but this did not lead to complaints.[9] On 21 October the ambassador of Russia to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov stated "There are no problems with the quality of products, they are safe. But there are problems associated with the production technology, using some ingredients that are not certified in accordance with the law".[9] According to the 17 December 2013 Ukrainian-Russian action plan by 1 March 2014 Roshen products should be back in Russian stores.[11]

Products and brands

"ROSHEN" (depicted in capitalized Latinic only) is the umbrella brand of all of the corporation's products.

Roshen makes a wide range of confectionery, including chocolate and jelly sweets, caramel, chocolate, biscuits, waffles, and cakes,[5] but is famous mostly by "Kyiv Vechirniy" chocolate candy and Kiev cakes, produced by the flagship Kiev Roshen Factory in Kiev. The corporation has a wide range of more affordable and less sophisticated products famous for high chocolate content.[8] In 2013 the company manufactured about 200 types of confectionery products and in total produced 410,000 tonnes of products that year.[5]

Public commitments

Recently all company's facilities practice intense and sophisticated decorative lighting on their buildings, especially during national holidays.

  • ROSHEN Factory in Vinnytsia

  • Roshen Fountain on Vinnytsia's Festyvalny Isle, the only one in Ukraine and the largest floating fountain in Europe

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Attitude of Russian watchdog to Roshen products related to labels alone – Ukrainian confectioners". Interfax-Ukraine. 6 August 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Roshen Corporation". UPIGROUP. Retrieved 2011-03-03. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "http://www.candyindustry.com/top25CandyCompanies". Candyindustry.com. Retrieved 19 August 2013. 
  4. ↑ "Roshen suspends export of confectionery products to Russia". Kyiv Post. Interfax-Ukraine. July 31, 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Roshen products to be allowed back to Russian market after violations eliminated - Rospotrebnadzor, Interfax-Ukraine (24 December 2013)
  6. ↑ "На фоне скандала в России Roshen начал выпуск шоколада в ЕС". Korrespondent.net (in (Russian)). ЛIГАБiзнесIнформ. July 31, 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013. 
  7. ↑ "Roshen выпустил шоколад в Венгрии". LigaBiznesInform. July 31, 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2013. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Kuryata, Nina (17 Aug 2013). "The Fifth Floor". BBC World Service. Retrieved 8 September 2013. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 (Ukrainian) Росспоживчнагляд почне перевіряти Roshen на якість Russian agency will check the quality of Roshen, BBC Ukraine (21 October 2013)
  10. ↑ Russian inspectors have woeful impression of products of Roshen's Ukrainian factories - Onishchenko, Interfax-Ukraine (28 October 2013)
  11. ↑ Ukrainian wagons, Roshen sweets to return to Russian market in early 2014, says Russian economy ministry, Interfax-Ukraine (20 December 2013)

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