Roshen increases sales by third
27 January 2011 – Sales grew 32 per cent for Ukrainian confectioner Roshen in 2010, surpassing the $1 billion (€730m) barrier, while production volume was up 410,000 tonnes on 2009.
The company said that output at its four Ukrainian, one Lithauanian and two Russian factories were up 12.7 per cent on output levels for 2009.
Roshen‘s product range comprises sweets, chocolate, sugar candies, cookies, waffles, fruit jellies and cakes, accounting for some 25 per cent of all Ukrainian confectionery production.
In September last year, it announced plans to build a new production facility in the region of Lipetsk in Russia. The plant’s construction work will start this year and is expected to complete in 2016. The factory, said the manufacturer, will include 40 production lines and will have the capacity to manufacture 253,000 tons of confectionery products per year.
