What is "roshen"

Roshen Confectionery Corporation ( Kondyterska Korporatsiya "Roshen") is a Ukrainian confectionery manufacturing group, controlled by Petro Poroshenko. The leading manufacturer of confectionery products in the country, it operates facilities in the Ukrainian cities of Kiev, Vinnytsia, Kremenchuk and Yahotyn, as well as in Hungary, Klaipėda ( Lithuania) and Lipetsk (Russia)1. 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 world's largest confectionery companies. It has a total annual production volume exceeding 410,000 tonnes. It exports to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, Estonia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, the United States, Canada, Germany 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.