Kraš is a Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n food company based in Zagreb

Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

, specializing in confectionery

Confectionery

Confectionery is the set of food items that are rich in sugar, any one or type of which is called a confection. Modern usage may include substances rich in artificial sweeteners as well...

 products.

The company traces its origins from two factories from the early 20th century - "Union", founded in 1911, the oldest surviving chocolate manufacturer in southeastern Europe - and "Bizjak", founded in 1923, which manufactured toast, cookies and wafers. These two companies, as well as a number of smaller confectionery manufacturers from Zagreb, merged in 1950 and took the name Kraš, in honour of Josip Kraš

Josip Kraš

Josip Kraš was a Croatian communist and partisan who died in World War II and was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia....

, a union leader and prominent Croatian communist who was killed in WWII.

The company was state-owned during SFR Yugoslavia, and privatized in 1992 into a private shareholding company with capital estimated at 135,769,000 DM

German mark

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. In 1997 they received the certificate ISO 9001.

The company's best known products include its line of milk chocolates now named Dorina; nougat dessert Bajadera

Bajadera

Bajadera is a praline from nougat which is enriched with almond, hazelnuts from the species of Corylus avellana or walnuts from the Juglans species which gives it a specific and recognizable taste.-Preparation:...

; the candies KiKi, Bronhi, 505 sa crtom; biscuit

Biscuit

A biscuit is a baked, edible, and commonly flour-based product. The term is used to apply to two distinctly different products in North America and the Commonwealth Nations....

s Petit-Beurre, Napolitanke, and Domaćica

Domaćica

Domaćica is a chocolate tea biscuit produced by the Croatian company Kraš since 1957. Domaćica, lit. "housewife", is one of best known Kraš's trademarks, and a product well liked in Croatia as well as in the regional market, particularly of former Yugoslavia.Each biscuit consists of a wafer that is...

; instant chocolate powder Kraš Express and the small chocolate Životinjsko Carstvo (themed animal kingdom).