Roshen

Sweet mark of quality

ROSHEN Confectionery Corporation one of the largestworld manufacturers of confectionery products.

ROSHEN Confectionery Corporation holds 18th placein the world ratingCandy Idustry Top 100.Underits own "sweet quality mark" ROSHEN producesaround200 kinds of perfect quality confectionery products(chocolate and jelly sweets, caramel, chocolate, biscuits, wafers, sponge cakes, swiss rolls and cakes). The total volume of productionreaches450 thousand tonsper year.Head office is located in Kiev City, Ukraine. The Corporation ROSHENconsits of4 Ukrainian factories (Kiev, two production sitesin Vinnitsa, Mariupol and Kremenchug), two production sitesof the Lipetsk Confectionery Factory (Russia), the Klaipeda Confectionery Factory (Lithuania), Bonbonetti Choco Kft (Budapest, Hungary) and also a butter-milk plant "Bershadmoloko",supplying the corporation plantswith the natural high quality diaryraw materials.

The monitoring of the product quality control and required researches is automized at every factory of theRoshen Corporation.Technology design and high quality product set-up is under the responsibility of theexperts trained and certified by internationalspecializedcenters.

Launched confectionary products are produced with the application of the cut edge technologies. Modern high capacity equipment,strict adherence to the production technologies, only high quality raw materials guarantee key strengths and superiorities of the Roshenproducts. Roshen sell its productsin Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the USA, Canada, Germany, Israel and other countries.

Logistics Center

To improve storage conditionsof raw materials and finished products, to optimize product delivery and to minimizeproductdate of depositat warehouse- the Corporationlaunched its own logistics center. The total area of the complex is 60,000 m2, including warehouse premises area of 57,000 m2. The total capacity is up to 45,000 tons, out of which 20-25,000 tons are products and 20,000 tons are raw materials.

Export CatalogueChocolate Tablets

9Chocolate Bars

Sweets in Gift Boxes

Chocolate Sweets and Chocolate-coated Sweets

Uncoated Sweets

13Jelly Sweets

Toffee Sweets

Boiled Sweets

Wafers

Biscuits

Crackers

Chocolate Factory, Trade War Victim

Since July 2013,Russiahas banned all Roshen imports due to unsatisfyingpackaginglabelling . The Russian authority Federal Service for Supervision ofConsumer Protectionand Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) reached a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ukrainian government that included phased reintroduction of Roshen products into Russia. This came with the proviso that every batch was tested by,accredited laboratories.Why was Roshen ousted? Russia banned imports from Roshen in July this year due to allegedly high levels of toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) Benzo[a]pyrene found in Roshen chocolate. The ban came soon after the Ukrainian government imposed an emergency import tax on cars, making car exportation more costly for Russia. Moldova, Tadzhikistan, Kazakhstan and Belarus conducted their own investigations , but found no health risks from Roshen chocolate.Ukraine to restore economic relations with Russia The Russian ban was lifted on the day the Ukrainian Prime Minister announced his country would begin negotiations with Russia to restore economic relations. Roshen was asked for comment, but a response was not forthcoming. The company previously told the site which published the article that Russian authorities had never visited Roshens factories before imposing the ban and had even failed to inform the Ukrainian company on the rationale for the ban before the news became public.

Sources:www.roshen.comhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/business/international/ukrainian-chocolates-caught-in-trade-war-between-europe-and-russia.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1http://www.confectionerynews.com/www.zik.ua