Ukraine poultry processor MHP has announced CEO Yuriy Kosyuk has been appointed to a key role in the new presidential administration – headed by chocolate tycoon Petro Poroshenko.

Kosyuk has been named deputy first head of the presidential administration. MHP said its deputy CEO Yuriy Melnyk would become its chief executive.

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Poroshenko, elected Ukraine’s President earlier this year, started doing business in Ukraine’s confectionery industry in the 1990s, buying several plants and merging them into candy maker Roshen in 1995.

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