Roshen is a Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 confectionery

Confectionery

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- manufacturing group, controlled by politician Petro Poroshenko. It united confectionery factories in Ukrainian cities of Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

, Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia

Vinnytsia is a city located on the banks of the Southern Bug, in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Vinnytsia Oblast.-Names:...

, Mariupol

Mariupol

Mariupol , formerly known as Zhdanov , is a port city in southeastern Ukraine. It is located on the coast of the Azov Sea, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Mariupol is the largest city in Priazovye - a geographical region around Azov Sea, divided by Russia and Ukraine - and is also a popular sea...

 and Kremenchuk

Kremenchuk

Kremenchuk is an important industrial city in the Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Kremenchutskyi Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is located on the banks of Dnieper River.-History:Kremenchuk was...

, as well as in Klaipėda

Klaipeda

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 (Lithuania

Lithuania

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) and Lipetsk

Lipetsk

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 (Russia). The name of the company is created from the last name of its owner, Poroshenko.

"ROSHEN" (depicted in capitalized Latinic only) is the umbrella brand

Brand

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 of all of the corporation's products.

Roshen makes a wide range of confectionery, but is famous mostly by "Kyiv Vechirnij" chocolate candy and Kiev cake

Kiev cake

Kyiv Cake, or Kiev Cake is a brand of dessert cake, made in Kiev, Ukraine since the 1950s by the Karl Marx Confectionery Factory...

s, produced by the Karl Marx chocolate factory in Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

. The corporation has a wide range of more affordable and less sophisticated products famous for high chocolate

Chocolate

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