DURUKAN ŞEKERLEME SAN. VE TİC. A.Ş.

Durukan family had been in food industry as of 1976 as distributor, wholesaler and supermarket owner. With the vision of growing the business, Durukan focused to be a producer of confectionery products in 1993.Durukan Confectionery first started to produce lollipop products in order to sell in the domestic market, under the Durukan brand. Afterwards, the company have grown in export sales with Durukan brand.Until 2003 PepsiCo distributed Durukan branded products in the domestic market. In 2003 PepsiCo launched its own candy brand called Rocco, which is the second biggest candy brand in Turkey now. With this decision, Durukan Confectionery became sole producer of Rocco Lollipop and Rocco Rengarenk "coated chewy candy" items for Turkish market. Durukan Confectionery is still one of the biggest suppliers of PepsiCo Europe.Durukan products sell all over the world (including U.S.A., European Countries, MENA Region and Far East Countries) as one of the biggest and candy, lollipop producers.With the success of growth in domestic and export markets, Durukan Confectionery have developed itself by its investments for building a state of the art factory, increasing lollipop capacity and also adding coated chewy candy & center filled hard candy products to the portfolio. All these investments have started to run in the new factory of Durukan Confectionery in 2014.Amongst these investments, the most challenging product range was the “coated chewy dragee" product. The scientific research a