Yıldız Holding and DeMet’s Candy Company, to form a new global company, “pladis”. In 2018, in the course of the Turkish currency and debt crisis, 2018, Yildiz Holding unexpectedly requested its creditors to restructure as much as $7 billion in loans. Yıldız Holding Yıldız Holding is a Turkish conglomerate that is best known for manufacturing food products. The company also produces other consumer goods and has its own retail, private equity and real estate operations. Yıldız Holding is among the largest food manufacturers in CEEMEA (Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa), generating revenues of 34.3 billion TL in 2016
United Confectioners United Confectioners United Confectioners () is a Russian confectionery holding. Through its subsidiaries it produces chocolate bars, cakes, cookies and candies. The holding owns brands such as Krasny Oktyabr, Rot Front and Babayevsky. The company employed 17,000 people in 2013. As of 2015 it was the 13th largest confectionery company worldwide, with sales of $2.2 billion. Until 2011 the company was partly owned by the city of Moscow, and it is currently part of the GUTA Group. In 2016 the company had a 20% share of the Russian confectionery market. In 2014 the company's products were removed from retail in