History of the Brand
1961
Construction and launch of Moscow Potato Product Factory, a large production and experimental facility for potato processing and food manufacturing.
1963
Establishment of Moskovskiy Kartofel brand: start of the first potato chips production in the USSR called “Moskovskiy Kartofel in slices”.
1967
Koloss factory is founded. It’s still there today and it’s where we make our potato chips.
1977
Koloss factory becomes a part of the All-Union research and manufacturing association for food preservation and special food technology.
1989
Koloss launches an Italian automated potato chips production line with a capacity of 2 tons of finished product per hour. More potato chips for the Soviet Union!
1996
New packaging design. That's when we created the famous "blue wave". Contrary to the belief that blue wouldn’t be a good color for food product, the new packaging had been introduced on a large scale. Sales soon increased 10-fold.
2000
We are continuously improving our packaging to insure it’s always stylish and bright!
2011
In 2011 Moskovskiy Kartofel becomes the first Russian manufacturer to introduce crinkle cut potato chips setting the trend for wavy slices and raising the quality bar.
2013
Moskovskiy Kartofel brand’s 50th anniversary!
We get even cooler!
2023
Moskovskiy Kartofel celebrates 60 years of bright taste, honest emotions, and high quality!