GRAND CANDY COMMITS ACTS OF UNFAIR COMPETITION, SAYS UKRAINIAN PRODUCER

Tert.am
15:56 16.10.09

"Armenian local manufacturer Grand Candy commits acts of unfair
competition, " said Ukraine’s Kharkiv Biscuit Factory General Director
Alla Kovalenko.

"We export our products to the US, European countries, Russia; we have
no problem of selling our products," Kovalenko stated, noting that
Grand Candy has patented more than 100 types of products in Armenia,
most of which are not manufactured by the company and those products
which Grand Candy patented are not limited to the assortment at the
Kharkiv plant.

"Sometimes we don’t have the time to register the names of our types
of products in other countries, since it takes a long time. Grand
Candy has patented such names of our products, which are only in
Ukrainian, for example, ‘Slabojanskaya Lastochka,’ ‘Slabojanskaya
Romashka.’ During the czarist Russia times, part of the present
territory of Kharkiv was called Slabojanshina.

"Though Grand Candy manufactures only 166 types of products, it has
patents for more than 1,000. It turned out that confectionary licensed
in the Ukraine and produced by us for years is counterfeit in Armenia
and we aren’t able to sell it. It’s the consumer who suffers from
all this in the first place," said Kovalenko.

The Ukrainian delegation headed by Kharkiv Regional State
Administration head Arsen Avakov is presently in Armenia.