UKRAINE CONFECTIONARY MAVERICK ROSHEN HOLDS OUT AGAINST WESTERN EXPORT TIDE
October 1st, 2007
BY MARK ROWE
THE CHOCOLATE and wider confectionary markets of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe have been something of an investor's dream in recent year with multinationals taking over smaller domestic companies, updating equipment and buying into a lucrative and growing market.
One exception to this has been Ukraine. This is despite the fact the country is one of the poorer of the independent nations that emerged from the break up of the Soviet Union, and that many of its industries are ripe and vulnerable for takeover approaches.
And yet the ...
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