Three kinds of page, none of them ours
They do not come from one place, which is what makes them worth reading together. One treats the bar as a recipe for the home kitchen. One treats chocolate as general interest, outside the trade. One describes a category online, so the shelf is written down before anybody walks in.
Be honest about the limits. Albanian is a small search language and dependable local volume figures are not available, so nothing here is built on a search number; this rests on the published import record and on what is visible in Albanian pages — background on the Albania market page.
Awareness is not the missing part
When a recipe circulates and a chain lists the category, the buyer’s next question is not what the product is. It is where a consistent, documented version comes from — in cases, with a specification, repeatable next season.
Three lines carry most of it. The dubai-style bar: pistachio cream with crisp kadayıf, in real chocolate. Lokum with whole pistachio, the nut visible in the cut face rather than ground into the paste. And dragée, sorted by colour and calibre, what a weigh-out counter and a gift assortment buy — the chocolate page.
The minimum is per line, not per container
The sales unit is a full container or truck; there is no part load. The minimum, though, is set per line and written into the offer — not per container.
Because the minimum sits on the line, one container can carry six or seven items in measured quantities instead of a year’s worth of one. Each line travels on its own pallet under one packing list, so it arrives separable and sells line by line — see the mixed container page.
Temperature decides which lines share the load
Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines travel at +18/+20 °C. In hot months a refrigerated container is what we quote. If a dry container is preferred anyway, the temperature risk passes to the buyer in writing, before loading — not after a bloomed pallet is opened.
Lokum and dragée go dry all year, so a mixed load is built around the chocolate lines: they set the regime and the rest fits inside it. Settling that at quotation stage costs less than settling it at the loading bay.
Spread, glaze, and whose name is on the certificate
Three things get written wrong on first orders. The jar product is a spread — a spread, not a cream, and not a 100% pistachio pastry paste for filling and flavouring. That paste is a different product, outside the main range, confirmed before quoting.
Second, coating: ashell is either chocolate or a cocoa glaze on vegetable fat, and a glaze is not named as chocolate on the pack — the offer says which, line by line, before artwork is drawn. Third, certificates are issued for our factory; copies are available on request. Albania sets its own food and customs rules and the importer files the declaration; the quotation states what applies on the day it is issued.
What to send
Send the lines you want and roughly how much of each; retail sales box or bulk carton for the weigh-out counter; your coating preference where a line can be either; the label language; and the delivery city. Ask for samples against the technical specification before committing. Own-label work is possible on selected lines on our confirmation — private label for Albania — and nothing prints without written approval.
The written reply comes in two working days, line by line: technical specification, ingredients and allergens, net weight, case and pallet data, minimum per line, customs tariff heading. Payment is 50% at order and 50% before the container leaves, against loading photographs.
A recipe for the bar is already published in Albanian. Does that help an importer or work against one?
It helps, because the explaining is done. A food portal has run the recipe, a national daily has covered chocolate for general readers, and a chain’s category page is indexed — so the shopper arrives knowing what the product is. Home baking and a listed pack are not competing purchases. What remains is a documented supply: a manufacturer, a technical specification, case and pallet data, and a minimum per line.
Is the jar a pistachio cream or a pastry paste?
It is a spread — a spread, not a cream, meant for the jar and the shelf. It is not a 100% pistachio pastry paste for filling and flavouring; that is a different product, outside the main range, and we confirm composition and format before it is quoted.
Can one container carry the bar, the lokum and the dragée together?
Yes, and that is the usual shape of a first order. The sales unit is a full container or truck, but the minimum is set per line, so six or seven items can travel in measured quantities, each onits own pallet under one packing list. The chocolate lines set the regime at +18/+20 °C; lokum and dragée travel dry all year.
