Roshen

"Roshen" Confectionery Corporation

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 Factory in Vinnitsa

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.

Roshen fine chocolate

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

External links

• Official website
• Article in the KyivPost

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