Kharkov Biscuit Factory

Food processing company looks to export markets

This Open Joint Stock Company, has 900 employees, with 70 to 80 in their retail operations.

The company sells mainly to retail shops in the Kharkiv area and they export some products to the CIS, mainly to Russia. They also export a little to Italy and Austria, but the Ukrainian currency and customs regulations make it difficult to export in volume.

The company is the only one in the Kharkiv area that specializes in baking assorted biscuits.  There are 33 other enterprises in Ukraine that make crackers, but this company is the only one to produce both biscuits and crackers. They have a production capacity of 150-160 tons per day and produce a full range of products at each price level. They do not make biscuits with sugar or chocolate icing.  They have seven biscuit lines and their product quality is very high and competitive with products from Europe and Russia.

Wheat cookies, crackers (70% of output)

Sugar wafers called waffles (30% of output)

The plant's biscuit manufacturing facilities were well equipped and managed. One baking line is of Italian manufacture, three years old, and fully automatic. Production starts with flour and other ingredients and ends up with the packaged output. Other lines, eight years old, with Yugoslav and German tunnel ovens were in operation. Final inspection and packaging are done manually. Broken biscuits are discarded.

The production of sugar wafers in done on equipment that has been newly installed with the result that product quality is very high.

The Kharkov Biscuit Factory is looking to expand its operations and is always interested in discussing various forms of investment.

This is considered one of the best managed firms in Kharkiv and frequently receives foreign visitors interested in various forms of cooperation.

Please visit our website at: http://www.biscuit.com.ua

Contact

Ms Alla A. Kovalenko, General Director

Postal address

Kharkov Biscuit Factory

8 Lozovskaya Street

310017 Kharkiv

Ukraine

 

Telephone

(380) 572-22-71-05

FAX

(380) 572-97-81-22

Electronic mail

biscuit@online.kharkov.ua

Information supplied by CEI June 1995.   Page last updated January 19, 2004