page_title: Roshen
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Roshen / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Kiev Roshen Factory in the New Year
context_page_description: Roshen Confectionery Corporation is a Ukrainian confectionery manufacturing group. It operates facilities in the Ukrainian cities of Kiev, Ivankiv and Kremenchuk, as well as in Budapest, Hungary and Klaipėda, Lithuania. The name of the company was derived from the last name of its owner, Poroshenko.
  In 2012, the Roshen Corporation was ranked 18th in the "Candy Industry Top 100" list of the world's largest confectionery companies. It has a total annual production volume of 410,000 tonnes. It exports to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, the United States, Canada, Germany, Romania and Israel. It exported to Russia, with 40 percent of the company's grosses came from there until Russia stopped importing from the company in July 2013. In early 2017 Candy Industry put ROSHEN on 24th place in "2017 Global Top 100" of confectionery producers and estimated its annual revenue at $800 million.
caption: Kiev Roshen Factory in the New Year 2012
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