One artwork, two markets — and the block that is not shared
Translation and typesetting are the slow part of a label, and they are done once. The Albanian text on a lokum sleeve or a bar wrapper is drawn from our technical specification for that line, and the same approved base file serves both destinations.
The destination block is the exception. The company first placing the goods on the market in Albania is not the one placing them in Kosovo, and each is named on the pack sold in its own market. So plan one content job and two print variants: the wording holds across both shelves, and only the named block moves.
Two names to settle before anything goes to print
Coating first. A shell is either chocolate or a cocoa glaze built on vegetable fat — and a glaze is not chocolate, so it is not named as chocolate on the pack, in Albanian or any other language. The offer says which, line by line, before artwork is drawn.
Then the jar. What we supply is a spread: a spread, not a cream, and not a 100% pistachio pastry paste for filling and flavouring, which is a different product outside the main range. Buyers often ask using the pastry word; the label still has to say what is in the jar.
Whose name the certificates carry
Certificates are issued for our factory. We are not a certifying body: copies of our certificates are available on request, so your file and your label reference the same document.
Neither market is in the European Union: each country’s own food and customs rules govern, and the importer files the declaration. The offer names the customs tariff heading per line, and the quotation states what applies on the day it is issued. Private label works the same way — the label is prepared from the technical specification, and nothing goes to print without written approval, each market’s block approved separately.
The minimum is per line, so one run can cover both
The sales unit is a full container or a full truck; there is no part load. But the minimum is set per line and written into the offer — per line, not per container. That is what lets a first order carry six or seven items in measured quantities.
So an Albanian print run need not be split across two shipments: each line travels on its own pallet under one packing list, and where one buyer covers both markets a single load can hold both pack variants. How the load is built is on the mixed container page.
Temperature decides which lines share the load
Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines travel at +18/+20 °C, so 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 pallet is opened at the far end.
Lokum, sugared almonds and dragée, and jellies travel dry all year, so the chocolate lines set the regime and the rest fits inside it. That decision belongs at quotation stage: it changes the freight and which lines sensibly share a load.
What to send
Send the lines you want and roughly how much of each, which market each pack version is for, and the details for the destination block on each. Add the format — retail sales box, or bulk carton for the weigh-out counter — your coating preference where a line can be either, and the delivery city.
You get a written reply 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.
Can one Albanian label serve both Albania and Kosovo?
The language and most of the content, yes — product name, ingredients and allergens, storage and net weight are written once from our technical specification and used for both. The destination block is the part that does not carry over: the company first placing the goods on the market is separate in each market and is named on the pack sold there, so the artwork ends as one base with two print variants, each approved in writing before printing.
Can a vegetable fat coating be described as chocolate on the pack?
No. A cocoa glaze built on vegetable fat is not chocolate, so it is not named as chocolate on the label. The offer states per line whether the shell is chocolate or a glaze, and that is settled before the artwork is drawn rather than after a print run.
Is the pistachio jar the same thing as pastry paste?
No. What we supply in the jar is a spread — a spread, not a cream. A 100% pistachio pastry paste, the kind used for filling and flavouring in a bakery, is a different product outside the main range; it is supplied on request, with composition and format confirmed before any offer is made.
