Yerevan Confectionery and Macaroni Factory ( hy, Երևանի հրուշակեղենի-մակարոնի կոմբինատ) was an industrial enterprise based in

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. It was built in 1933. The confectionery and macaroni departments were amalgamated in 1951. In 1977, the factory became the first producer of

chewing gum Chewing gum is a soft, cohesive substance designed to be chewed without being swallowed. Modern chewing gum is composed of gum base, sweeteners, softeners/ plasticizers, flavors, colors, and, typically, a hard or powdered polyol coating. Its t ...

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, although the gum did not contain any chicle. The factory almost stopped the production during the

collapse of Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

in 1990's and was later privatized and restored by Grand Candy company in 2000. Chewing gum companies in USSR, Russia and CIS
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