Why a first load is mixed rather than single-line
The two halves of this market do not behave alike. On 2024 mirror figures the chocolate column is small — about 110,056 US dollars for the year — while sugar confectionery runs to 2,089,752. A single-line container asks you to guess which half moves, and to buy a year of one product to find out.
Mixing removes the guess. One box carries chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars, with the minimum set per line rather than per container, so a first load tests several decisions instead of one.
Choosing the lines, and what sits outside the range
Begin from what you already sell and what you cannot get. A first list usually holds a few chocolate references, a dragée line for the wedding and occasion trade, a Turkish delight box for gifting, wrapped candy for the kiosk trade and a jar of spread.
Couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini, baklava and empty packaging sit outside that range. They are sourced on request: composition and format are confirmed beforequoting, and a line that cannot be confirmed stays out of the offer rather than being promised into it.
Format is the decision that fills the box
The same product travels several ways, and format decides both price and shelf. A tablet in a retail wrapper, dragées in a printed carton or a doypack, Turkish delight in a gift box or a bulk carton, spread in one jar size or another — different cartons, different case weights, different pallet counts.
So name the format per line, not only the product. The offer answers in the same shape: case weight, units per case, cases per pallet and the minimum for that line, so the container is planned on paper before anything is packed.
Dry lines and cold lines in the same container
No sea leg ends here. The container loads at Mersin, about three hours by road from our factory,discharges at a port in the region and finishes overland. That road leg is where chocolate is most exposed: a box handled at a port and driven inland spends its warmest hours off the ship.
Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer through the warm months; Turkish delight, dragées, jellies and wrapped candies travel dry. Both share one container, and the offer states which lines are quoted on which basis.
What the offer puts in writing
Anything arguable later is written down first. Per line: the technical data sheet, the analysis report, the ingredient list with allergens, metric net weight, case and pallet data, lead time and price in US dollars. Certificates are issued for our factory,and the certifying body is named per line.
The delivery term is named too, because it decides where your cost begins. FCA Gaziantep and FOB Mersin hand over early; CIF ends at a coastal port outside your country; DAP names an inland destination. The origin document that applies is stated as it stands on the day.
Confirmed with you before the first order is produced
A few things settle before production starts. The inland delivery point and the term you want quoted against. The format per line. Whether the pack keeps our standard pack or carries your brand — on own-label runs nothing is printed until you approve the artwork in writing. The label: mandatory content is prepared in French, with English alongside where your file wants it. And the naming rule on coatings — a vegetable-fat line is a compound or a glaze on the sheet and on the pack, never chocolate; in the European Union it cannot be labelled as chocolate at all.
Send the references, the quantities you have in mind and the delivery point; the written offer follows line by line (mixed container).
Can one container really hold several different lines?
That is how we sell in any case. Chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars from our own factory travel on one order and one document set, with the minimum set per line ratherthan per container. It is what makes a first load useful: you test the formats your shelf wants instead of buying a year of one product to find out.
Do the chocolate lines need a reefer, and can dry goods share it?
Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer through the warm months, because the overland stretch after the port is the warmest part of the journey for an inland destination. Turkish delight, dragées, jellies and wrapped candies travel dry and can share the same box. The offer states which lines are quoted on which basis, so the comparison you make is like for like.
What do you need from us before you can quote?
The product references and the format for each, the quantities you have in mind, your inland delivery point and the delivery term you want quoted against, and whether the pack keeps our standard pack or carries your brand. The offer comes back line by line with case and pallet data, lead time and price in US dollars, and the origin document stated as it applies on the day.
