The Ukrainian bakery chain Lviv Croissants is opening its first bakery in California (USA), according to the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers (URTC).
The 204 sq. m Lviv Croissants bakery, which opened in the Quail Pointe shopping center in Fair Oaks (Sacramento County), offers a wide range of products, including croissants with various fillings, soups, salads, desserts, and its own roasted coffee.
This is the chain’s first bakery in California and an important step in its expansion in the US. Last year, Lviv Croissants opened a store in Georgia.
According to the company’s website, the brand entered the European market in September 2022.
Currently, the chain has 178 locations throughout Ukraine, 11 in Poland, and one each in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In April 2025, the Lviv Croissants chain opened its first outlet in South Korea. Korean franchisees invested about $250,000 in the bakery, and the total investment in the opening was about $500,000.
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LLC “Kulinichi” (Kharkiv region), a major manufacturer of bread and bakery products, has begun construction of a bakery in the Lviv region with a capacity of up to 150 tons of bread per day, part of which will be sold for export, according to the Ukrainian diplomat’s Facebook page Mikhail Bno-Ayriyan.
At the same time, it is specified that investments in the enterprise will amount to EUR 20 million over two years, part of the equipment for the plant will be transported from the Kulinichi plant in the Kharkiv region.
In turn, the bread manufacturer on his official Facebook page confirmed that he had begun construction of an enterprise in the Lviv region, but stressed that this did not mean the closure of the plant in the Kharkiv region.
“Yes, we are really building a new plant near Lviv. We are not closing the plant in Kharkiv, we are not closing our retail outlets in Kharkiv (…) We will bake bread for you, no matter what,” the Kulinichi page says in social network.
LLC “Kulinichi”, operating in Ukraine since 1995, unites 8 bakeries of the Kharkiv region and plants of the Poltava, Donetsk and Kyiv regions.
Since 1999, LLC has been cooperating with the Slovenian enterprise Gostol-Gopan.
PrJSC Kyivkhlib, the largest capital producer of bread and bakery products, received a net loss of UAH 2.76 million in 2018 against a net profit of UAH 15.27 million a year earlier.
According to the company’s announcement of a general meeting of shareholders scheduled for April 22, its assets decreased by 11% last year, to UAH 688.22 million.
The total debtor indebtedness over the year declined by 25.5%, to UAH 303.43 million.
By the end of the year, the retained earnings of Kyivkhlib amounted to UAH 87.31 million.
PrJSC Kyivkhlib was established in 1996 by transforming state-owned enterprise Kyivkhlibprom. It consists of nine production sites in the capital and Kyiv region.
