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Biscuit Chocolate Corporation presented its new products at ISM 2017

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Biscuit Chocolate Corporation for the seventeenth time participated in the World’s Major Confectionary Exposition – The International Sweets and Snacks Fair (ISM) at the German city Köln.

The Biscuit Chocolate Corporation was the first among Ukrainian confectionary companies to take part in the international ISM expo in 2000, where it presented not only its products but Ukraine in general.
For its history the ISM expo allowed many producers establishing the new relations, support and develop the relations with the existing partners, track the new tendencies in the confectionary market development.
This year the Biscuit Chocolate Corporation presented on the international level the wide range of confectionary items and novelties of 2016-2017: the premium series of box sweets “Georges” and “Georges Classic”, series of premium sweets and butter cookies in the metal cant “Georges Premium”; “Old Collection” series chocolate; chocolate sweets with the sophisticated filling “The Paris spring”, “Morning Star”, “Blue bird”, sweets based on the crispy creamy brittle “Lucky Tony” and toffy based on the condensed milk “Milk Tony”.
The classical assortment was also not ignored: wide range of waffles of different tastes and packing, cracker, Viennese pies with the natural jams, sugar biscuits, which underwent the independent quality inspection and was awarded the gold medal DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.V. “German Agricultural Association”).
According to the corporation president Alla Kovalenko, the visitors of Biscuit-Chocolate stand were interested in the cooperation with the corporation and during the business meetings the specific issues of the future cooperation were already discussed.
“We are convinced that the negotiations with the set of companies from the countries where we do not export to as yet will end up successfully. Such conviction is based on the compliance of the assortment, technological processes and quality of the confectionary TM Biscuit-Chocolate with the European standards. I would like to add that modern confectionary market requires higher flexibility from the manufacturer and acknowledgement of national taste preferences in the other countries” – Alla Kovalenko said.
During the expo the stand of Biscuit-Chocolate Corporation was visited by the representatives of 28 countries interested in the TM Biscuit-Chocolate products supply.

ISM became the business platform for 1, 647 exponents from 68 countries, which presented their products on the expo area, consisting of 110,000 m2. Almost 38, 000 specialists from 140 countries became the visitors of ISM 2017. The foreign companies made up 67%.

The Biscuit-Chocolate Corporation is one of the largest confectionary producers in Ukraine. It comprises a set of enterprises ensuring all basic technological production stages, from the raw materials preparation to the release of ready-made products. The Corporation was founded in 2004 as a part of Kharkovchanka Confectionary PJSC (since 1896 at the market), Kharkov Biscuit Plant (since 1935). Over 20 groups of confectionary items are produced under the Biscuit-Chocolate brand. In 2016 the corporation subdivisions released 60.3 ths. tones of products totaling 1.84 bln. UAH., 36% of all amount was exported. The quality management system at the corporation subdivisions complies with the modern international standards ISO 9001-2008. About 2.4 ths. people are employed by the company subdivisions.

Sugar Cookies “Korivka” passed an independent quality examination in Germany and received the Gold Medal DLG

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Sugar Cookies “Korivka” with creamy taste 180 g produced by Kharkiv Biscuit Factory passed an independent quality examination in Germany and received the Gold Medal DLG* (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.V. “German Agricultural Community”).
Expert of the company DLG made an organoleptic analysis of the cookies by 6 parameters: appearance, surface quality, cookies structure, friability, smell and taste. In all of the above criteria cookies “Korivka”” with creamy taste 180 g of “Biscuit–Chocolate” TM received the highest grade and gained the maximum points: 100 out of possible 100.
Analysis of the package gave additional 5 points.
In the expert’s conclusion it is said: “Congratulations and thank you for an excellent product. Product quality is completely satisfactory and it convinced the expert. For the result obtained, you are awarded the Gold Medal DLG”.
DLG quality concept is based on modern scientific achievements and their own developed and patented techniques.
Only one food product that has excellent quality, made of quality raw materials and with the optimal technology could seek for the bronze, silver or gold medal.
Every year DLG tests over 20,000 food products in Germany and other European countries, even those that are not sold in Germany, and only the perfect ones, with organoleptic characteristics in accordance with DLG quality criteria, can get a reward.
DLG test results are highly rated in the market, its trademark is a guarantee of the quality of the tested product.
“Biscuit–Chocolate” Corporation has been presented at the German confectionery market since the year 2000, when it participated in the prestigious international exhibition ISM in Cologne for the first time. Since that time there have been established business contacts with German partners, that allow the corporation to increase its presence in the German market annually, supplying more than 25 kinds of confectionery products of own production, and consumers, who like the products of “Biscuit–Chocolate” TM, have the opportunity to acquire quality products of Ukrainian producer.

Information taken from the official sources https://www.dlg.org/fileadmin/downloads/ru/DLG_Impulse_ru.pdf

An explanation of some of the comments about the quality of products

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Meet your feedback on the Corporation’s products in the Internet “Biscuit – Chocolate”. We are grateful to all indifferent, because they share their impressions of the taste and packaging, photographs of a particular confection of our production. However, when reading the reviews, we are faced with the incorrect information that is related to the lack of understanding of technological processes and industry specifics. In his post, the press service of the corporation “Biscuit – Chocolate” would like clarification on frequently encountered errors.
1. Sponge TM “Corporate” delicious, but dryish.
Indeed, biscuit-cream cakes or biscuits soaked with homemade syrups to improve the taste, but the shelf life of the biscuit 48 hours. Biscuits industrial production TM “Corporate” biscuits are long-term storage and have a shelf life of 6 months. Their formulation and production technology is made so that the final product was absent unbound moisture during storage which can provoke fermentation and mold.
This kind of production Corporation “Biscuit-Chocolate” produces on the Italian equipment, in compliance with Italian technology. Much attention, as manufacturers, pay package, which must have high barrier properties, so that during the entire shelf life of our biscuits have not lost their qualities and flavor characteristics. We thought and of individual packaging of each biscuit to make it convenient to take along “to bite”.
The differences in formulation technology, production processes have biscuits short and long shelf life are reflected in some differences in taste, but each type of product has its undeniable advantages, which we use in relation to a particular situation.
2. Confectionery containing food additives (E).
Food additives – are substances that are added to process applications, including confectionery products and to give them a specific flavor, color or improve the stability and safety. Such familiar and essential ingredients in home cooking as soda and citric acid are also related to food additives. The EU food additives have been classified according to their application purposes:.. Dyes, preservatives, disintegrating agents, etc., and each additive is assigned a number starting with the letter “E”.
In Ukraine, the use of food additives is regulated by normative acts of the Ministry of Health, which approved the list of food additives approved for use in the food industry. The use of other additives that are not included in this list is prohibited. Also, the sanitary norms established requirements for each type of additive dosages in a particular food product.
Production Corporation “Biscuit – Chocolate” is made according to DSTU and specifications on the packaging placed all the information about the product in accordance with the requirements of technical regulations and legislative acts of Ukraine.
In addition, enterprise corporations annually controlled by state bodies for the supervision of certified products, including management of technological processes, production and safety products, sanitary condition. All kinds of confectionery products TM “Biscuit – Chocolate” are voluntary certification (today certification of confectionery is not mandatory) and monitored for safety performance in independent accredited laboratories. All this is done to confirm the quality and safety of our confectionery and especially for consumers whose opinion we value.
Given doubt consumers in an amount of food additives that are part of one or another confection and safety, we decided to abandon the digital code soda (sodium bicarbonate, E 500) and citric acid (E 330). These substances will be prescribed in full if the package sizes will allow it.
3. Candy calorie and very sweet.
Calorie confection depends on caloric ingredients. The composition of chocolates Corporation “Biscuit-Chocolate” includes cocoa butter and cocoa mass, which are natural products of the processing of cocoa beans. Energy value of the cocoa butter is 899 calories per 100 grams, and cocoa – 607 kcal. This unique superfoods, containing the tannins, flavonoids, vitamin A, caffeine and minerals.
And cocoa butter and cocoa liquor are basic raw materials in the production of chocolate. Natural cocoa products in candies TM “Biscuit-Chocolate” – a useful and tasty calories that will give pleasure and joy, and the amount eaten “joy” each defines for himself.
With regard to the wishes of consumers to reduce the amount of sugar in the sweets, the engineers of the corporation “Biscuit-Chocolate” is sure to take into account when developing new products formulations.

Results of the Corporation “Biscuit – Chocolate” for the first half 2016

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Corporation “Biscuit-Chocolate” in the first half of 2016 produced 29.2 thousand. Tons of confectionery products, while maintaining production volumes of the same period last year, despite the very challenging market conditions. The same volume of production was sold on the domestic and foreign markets, which amounted to 860 million USD in cash.
In general, in the first half of the corporation sent to export 34% of output, increasing the amount of deliveries more than 300 tons. Shipment of confectionery products for export was carried out in 30 countries, including emerging markets, such as Iraq, Iran, Libya, France, Sweden. It should be noted that the most active in buying confectionery corporation showed the Middle East, increasing its volumes by 2.5 times compared to the first half of 2015.
The second was the Chinese market (+ 26%) in activity, which is currently undergoing a boom in consumption, including consumption of food and confectionery products. To date, our Chinese partners have received a wide range of confectionery products of the corporation “Biscuit – Chocolate” and increase the volume of deliveries to China.
Sales volume in the European Union for the first half 2016 increased relative to the corresponding period of 2015 by 13% due to the markets of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia. In the same period, it was made first deliveries in France and Sweden.
Sales in Ukraine remained at the level of the first half of 2015
CIS market was the only one with a negative trend due to the prohibition of deliveries Ukrainian goods on the Russian territory, a complete ban on the transit through its territory to the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, almost doubling the cost of delivery of products to these markets, increasing delivery times due to the disabled ferries on the Black and Caspian seas, as well as the sharp devaluation of the local currencies of the CIS countries, provoked by the fall of the Russian ruble.

Corporation “Biscuit – Chocolate”: investments in 2015

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Corporation “Biscuit-Chocolate”, one of the largest Ukrainian manufacturers of confectionery, for 2014-2015, has invested in the development of its production capacity of about 8 million €.
As the president of the corporation Alla Kovalenko, investment policy aims both to maintain consistent quality of products and to introduce new technologies.
“New technologies significantly increase the possibility of the company to introduce new products and expand the product range. It is about providing products that are still not produced in Ukraine and which, in our view, has good prospects in foreign markets “, – said President of the Corporation” Biscuit-Chocolate “.
Investments in the modernization of production at the confectionery factory “Kharkovchanka” primarily focused on the production of tidal chocolates. Replacing old equipment technological complex «Foly Lekos» (Slovakia) has allowed to increase productivity, reduce labor intensity, improve the quality and to introduce new technologies with the ability to simultaneously produce sweets with two fillings and toppings to make additional ingredients, such as whole nuts, cereals blown.
The next stage of the investment plan of the corporation “Biscuit-Chocolate” was the purchase of a new line of Dutch company “Tanis”, a world leader in iris. On the new line Launched production krokanta crunchy brittle and chocolate-based soft toffee. Workflow provides a complete production cycle from preparation of the masses to the packaging of packaged sweets in packets.
Modernization has undergone line for the production of sweets based on nougat «S.A. Martin Lloveras – Klöckner », where Technology Corporation has developed a new bar on the basis of exploded grains.
The implementation of the investment project in 2015 allowed the Corporation “Biscuit-Chocolate” to start production of modern confections that are sure to win the sympathy of consumers.

Results of work in 2015

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Corporation “Biscuit-Chocolate” in 2015 released the 60 th. Tons of confectionery, which is 107% compared to 2014. Almost the same amount of product (59.9 thous. Tons) was sold on the domestic and foreign markets. The volume of sales for the year amounted to about 1 billion 600 million UAH, growth of the past – 55%.
In general, the results of 2015 the company sent to export 36% of output, whereas a year earlier the figure was 41%. Reducing the share of export shipments in the corporation “Biscuit-Chocolate” was due to the general decrease in the volume of exports by 8%, or 1.8 thous. Tons. The main fall is due to the loss of the market and a reduction in deliveries to the CIS countries, primarily in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Not the least role in the negative dynamics of the purchase of confectionery these countries played a devaluation of the local currency against the background of falling world oil prices and problems on the Russian market.
External shipments of products carried out in 30 countries, including emerging markets, such as Iraq, China, Libya, Poland and Turkey. Sales volume in the European Union countries for the second year showed growth: for example, if in 2014 the growth of exports to these countries amounted to 28%, then in 2015 – already 50%. The largest increase in exports of confectionery products was due to Romania, Latvia and Bulgaria.
Sales in Ukraine increased both in volume and in share, which was in 2015 64% of total shipments corporations, compared with 57% in 2014. The overall growth of Ukrainian sales amounted to 18% and was observed in all regions of the country except parts of Luhansk and Donetsk region, located in the zone of the ATO, and the Crimea.
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