LOTTE OPENS NEW CONFECTIONERY PLANT IN RUSSIA
September 1st, 2010
BY WANG FANGQING
LOTTE Confectionary, the Seoul-based subsidiary of South Korea's top food conglomerate the Lotte Group, has opened a its first Russian food plant in Obninsk city, 102 km southwest of Moscow. It will manufacture Lotte's signature Choco Pie confectionery to supply Moscow and the Ural-Siberian area, said Lotte's spokesman. "In the future, it will also make Pepero chocolate chips, Kancho cookies and chewing gum Xylitol," he said, adding Lotte-branded sweets sold in Russia so far are generally exported from South Korea and China, with Choco ...
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