11.15.2024

Kandia Dulce, Romania’s largest chocolate producer, expects to end 2024 with turnover of around RON268 million, up 17% from 2023. more

04.21.2023

Dragos Militaru, CEO of Kandia, the biggest chocolate producer in Romania, says March was a good month and the first quarter ended with 10% higher sold volumes, meaning an over 20% turnover increase. more

06.08.2022

Kandia Dulce, Romania’s biggest chocolate producer, aims for 21% higher turnover in 2022 against 2021, to RON194 million, betting on the most important brands in its portfolio. more

11.04.2021

Chocolate producer Kandia Dulce posted turnover worth almost RON140 million in 2020 and aims for an increase of around 16% in 2021. more

03.13.2019

Chocolate manufacturer Kandia Dulce will allocate about 10% of its revenue to investments this year, says general manager Dragos Militaru, after having invested in brands, development of employees and more

10.05.2015

Chocolate producer Kandia Dulce has appointed Roman Melesh as its general manager, an executive with a 20-year experience within Kraft Foods/Mondelez International. more

08.28.2015

Romania’s largest dairy business Albalact (ALBZ.RO) partnered up with Kandia Dulce, the largest chocolate producer on the local market, in a cross brand action to launch cacao-flavored and Rum taste more

11.05.2014

Traditional retail will still hold a big weight in sales of certain product categories, even as modern retail continues to consolidate and grow in the area of proximity stores, believes Mihai more

06.16.2014

Rom chocolate bar brand, produced in Bucharest by Kandia Dulce, was in 2013 the best-selling one on this segment by number of pieces, overshooting US brand Snickers, the world’s leading chocolate more

03.04.2014

Kandia Dulce, the biggest chocolate producer in Romania, in 2013 sold over 77 million pieces of Rom, Fagaras bars and Magura mini-cookies, some of the oldest sweets brands in Romania, according to ZF more

02.28.2014

Kex Confectionery, owner of Kandia and Heidi brands, leads in 2013’s ranking of chocolate market companies, but in the ranking of brands the top two positions are filled by Poiana and Milka, more

09.20.2013

Kandia-Dulce, the largest local chocolate producer controlled by Austrian Meinl family, exports 5% to 10% of its products to Balkan countries and to countries with large Romanian communities like more

08.28.2013

Mihai Georgescu, who ran Wrigley Romania for more than 20 years, has been appointed to the position of general manager of chocolate maker Kandia Dulce, replacing Gerald Neumair, who held the position more

04.20.2013

Romanian chocolate brand Heidi has recently entered the portfolio of Austrian family Meinl following a deal sealed at the end of last year and approved by Romanian regulatory authorities in mid-April. more

01.20.2012

The beginning of the year is extremely busy for Mihut Craciun, the general manager of Kandia, after the Romanian chocolate maker bought the Supreme Chocolat (Primola) business from the Lebanese-born more

11.18.2011

Two Romanian chocolate makers have joined forces to cope with competition from multinationals: Kandia – a brand that has been around for 120 years in a confectionery market that switched from lack more

11.17.2011

Chocolate manufacturer Kandia, one of the best-known brands on the local market, is about to take over the Supreme Chocolat group, owner of the Primola brand. The deal is already on the desk of the more

05.15.2011

Chocolate manufacturer Kandia, one of the best-known local brands, says the beginning of the year was difficult despite optimistic forecasts made in January 2011. more