The accumulated quantity of 10 billion Chupa Chups lollipops sold worldwide was reached in 1979. Nine years later, this figure doubled to 20 billion. In 1991, manufacturing operations in Russia began with a daily production of 1.5 million lollipops. A short time later the factory reached another important milestone when it supplied the first lollipops consumed in space, sent to the MIR space station upon the cosmonauts' request.