Chumak (company)

It is today one of Ukraine's biggest food processing companies and has commercial offices in Kyiv, Minsk and Moscow.

[1] The company was founded in 1996, first under the name South Food, Inc, by the two young Swedish entrepreneurs Johan Bodén and his nephew Carl Sturén.

Chumak, being at the time number two on the Ukrainian market, halted production and moved its headquarters to Kyiv.

The low cucumber harvest that year in Estonia, where they had been buying their raw materials, forced the entrepreneurs to start looking for a replacement for the lost Estonian crop.

In their search for investors, they found support from Professor Hans Rausing, the founder of Tetra Pak, a leading food packaging company.

The company exports up to 20% of its products (importing countries: Russia, Belarus, Estonia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Israel, Germany, Italy, Spain, Nepal, the USA).