UKRAINIAN CHOCOLATE MARKET
70 % of market (and 3/4 of export):
General presentation
UKRAINIAN MANUFACTURERS
Main: ROSHEN, AVK, Konti
LOCAL PRODUCTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
Nestle and Mondelez International (Kraft Foods Ukraine)
30 % of market
800 SMALL PRODUCERS
making perishable products (cakes) or expensive hand-made production
FOREIGN IMPORTERS
Mars (Holland),
Frei, Midor, Lindt (Switzerland),
Cemoi, Jacquot, Vahlrona (France),
Duc d’O, Hamlet (Belgium),
Mauxion, Storck, P.Reber (Germany),
- several times more expensive than Ukrainian production
- practically squeezed out by national products.
Corporation
History
1994 - representative office
Invest.
1998 - Confectionary “Svitoch” (Lviv)
since 1994
Ukrainian brands
More than $200 m
1994 : Confectionary “Ukraine” in Trostianets, annual turnover$4 m/year
International brands
2003 - Foundation of “Nestle Ukraine”
Now : + 2 confectionaries, annual turnover $400 m/year
More than $150 m
Ukrainian manufacturers
- History of development
- 1990s – plummeting of confectionary production / period of privatization of state confectionaries/ “nostalgic” sweets, familiar for USSR citizens ( biscuits, caramel, toffees, chocolate candies)
- 1997-2008 new period of active increase
- 2003 - update the range of products
- 2008 – saturation of market
Characteristics
- Chocolate segment - 2d place
on the confectionary market.
½ Ukrainian chocolate products - candies,
chocolate and snack bars’ share is 3d.
Other chocolate products -1%.
- Highly developed manufactural sector and large territorial coverage.
- Main “chocolate regions” are Donetsk, Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk regions - more than 90% of general production volume.
- Key factors - quantity of production, quantity of potential consumers and comfortable logistic interchange.
Major domestically-owned players
“ Roshen” – market leader - market share : 32% (chocolate candies, snack bars, chocolate bars)
Foundation - 1996
“ АВК” – market share: 12%
Foundation – 1991 (as a supplier of cocoa products)
5 confectionaries (Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk, Mukachevo)
300 trade names (“Шедевр”)
“ Konti” – leader of chocolate drop production – share: 14%
Foundation – 1997
Products – chocolate Dolci (rating: 3d place)
chocolate candies – traditional trade name (“Ptychie moloko” (“Bird milk”), own trade name (“Bellissimo”)
flour confectionary products with chocolate cover (“Superkontik”, “Bonjour”) – very successful
“ Biscuit-chocolate” (Kharkiv)
- 2 confectionaries in Kharkiv Chocolate candies Truffles, "Грильяж", "Жорж", chocolate "Идеал" Active exporter
- 2 confectionaries in Kharkiv
- Chocolate candies Truffles, "Грильяж", "Жорж", chocolate "Идеал"
- Active exporter
"Malbi" (Dnipropetrovsk)
2000s - launch of chocolate “Millenium” (chocolate bars and candies); continues to hold its positions.
Cooperation with one of the leaders of chain retailing – group “Furchet” ( supermarkets “Silpo”) – chocolate under trade name “Premia” ( less expensive than competitors’ production / comparable quality)
“ Poltavakonditer” (Poltava)
Chocolate “Poltava”, Dominic
Losing positions + conflict with inspection bodies (harmful substances in candies)
- one of the leading brands in Ukrainian and Russian confectionery market
- more than 250 different products from different categories
- the rating top ten of the most popular Ukrainian brands
- KONTI Group was founded in 1997 as a closed joint stock company named Production Association «KYIV-KONTI»
- 2004 - entering the Russian market
- 2006 - changing the name into CLOSED JOINT STOCK COMPANY «PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION «KONTI»»
2007 – appearing of the a chocolate brand of ‘KONTI’ Group AMOUR
9 awards at various prestigious international contests and festivals 2007 - entering the most popular brands rating of Ukraine
- 2007 - one of the largest and cutting-edge facilities in Eastern European terms of the state-of-the-art
- 2008 – opening of the Kursk logistic centre, the largest one in the Central Black Earth Region of the Russian Federation
- 2011 - launching the large-scale production and administrative complex in Kursk
Slogan
Sweet Moments of Life
a small regional factory
- an international giant
- one of the leaders of the confectionery market and a trendsetter in its area
- Type Privately held company
- Founder Petro Poroshenko
- Headquarters Kiev, Ukraine
- Key people Petro Poroshenko
- Revenue USD 1 billion (2010)[1
- Industry confectionery
ROSHEN Confectionery Corporation
200 kinds of perfect quality confectionery products:
- chocolate and jelly sweets,
- caramel, chocolate,
- biscuits and sponge cakes,
- sweet rolls and cakes.
The total volume of production reaches 450 thousand tons per year
Products are sold in:
- to improve storage conditions of raw materials and finished products,
- to optimize product delivery
- to minimize product date of deposit at warehouse
- the Corporation launched its own logistics center.
2011 - 15th place in the
"GLOBAL TOP - 100“
of the largest confectionery companies all over the World
2011 SEPTEMBER
TOP 10
Height -16 metres
Width 45 metres
The height of the central spring reaches 65-70 metres