Roshen
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| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | confectionery |
| Founder | Petro Poroshenko |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Petro Poroshenko |
| Products | 200 various types of confectionery |
| Revenue |  USD 1 billion (2010)[1] |
Number of employees | 8 915 (including subsidiaries) |
| Website | http://www.roshen.com/ |
Roshen is a Ukrainian confectionery manufacturing group, controlled by 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.
In 2011, Roshen Corporation has taken the 15th place in the "GLOBAL TOP - 100" list of the largest confectionery companies all over the World.
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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.
Recently all company's facilities practice intense and sophisticated decorative lighting on their buildings, especially during national holidays.
References
- ^ "Roshen Corporation". UPIGROUP. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
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