Karl Marx Kiev Confectionery Factory

Karl Marx Kiev Confectionery Factory is one of Kiev's oldest enterprises. It was founded in 1874 by a merchant Valentin Yefimov as a small enterprise that partly used manual labor and had a production volume of about 200 tons of confectionery per year. By 1890 the factory consisted of 5 main workshops: for caramel, sweets, fruit jelly, spice-cakes and fruit processing, employing 70 workers.

The factory was named after Karl Marx in 1923 to celebrate his 105th anniversary. Technical modernization between 1918 and 1940 increased the output to 32,800 tons per year. The factory employed 3,400 workers.

In 1956 the master of biscuit shop Kostyantin Mykytovych Petrenko developed a recipe of cake "Kievskiy". The factory has worked by this recipe already 50 years, and all this time the cake has been successful.

At present the factory produces more than 100 titles of confectionery, including a variety of chocolate bars, candies, cakes, cookies, and fruit jellies. Among the factory's best-known products are: Kievsky cakes; Kiev Vecherny chocolates; Chaika, Theatralny and Alionka chocolate bars and many other products. We believe that the latest chocolate bar series, Zodiac, with fruit and cream fillings, has been very successful.

In 2001 Karl Marx Factory was equipped with state-of-the-art, fully automated German and Italian production lines for chocolate candies with liqueur and cream fillings. In early 2002 these lines started to produce new series of boxed chocolates: Monte-Cristo (liqueur-filled chocolates) and Margaret (chocolates with a cream or praline filling, some with whole hazelnuts). In 2006 there was started up a new Italian line on manufacture of two-layer shortcake with a cream layer "Smuglyanka", "Idyllia" and etc.

The rich history and long-standing traditions of Karl Marx Kiev Confectionery Factory, combined with the vast experience of its personnel, is a key to high standards of its products, well-known all over the world and always in demand.