Chumak

The company was founded on 29 May 1996 in Kakhovka. It was founded by two Swedish entrepreneurs, Johan Boden and Carl Sturen, who first came to Ukraine in 1993. They were both 19 years old and had been involved in a family business producing vegetables in Sweden. 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. Juhan and Karl returned to Ukraine to find a place for future production.

By 1995 Johan and Karl realised the need for their own production. In their search for investors, they found support from Professor Hans Rausing, the founder of Tetra Pak, a leading food packaging company.

Chumak was the first company in Ukraine to produce ketchup and most sauces without preservatives. Since the end of 2007, it has become the only company in the CIS to produce preservative-free mayonnaise.

In 2008 the tomato processing plant had an annual capacity of 2,500,000 kg of tomatoes. In March 2008, the investment company Dragon Capital and East Capital Bering Ukraine Fund together acquired 70% of Chumak's shares from one of its founders, Professor Hans Rausing, with the remaining 30% owned by Johan Boden and Karl Sturen. In the same year, the construction of a new office in Kakhovka was completed.

In 2009 the company launched a pasta factory, a separate workshop for the production of pasta.

In 2015 a workshop for the production of in-house juices was launched in Kakhovka.

Since the end of 2015 the company has been building a roasted sunflower seed production facility. The company plans to launch its own production in this area in the first quarter of 2016.

In 2019, Chumak became a part of the Delta Wilmar, a Ukrainian subsidiary of Wilmar International.