What a shop makes and what it buys
A Muscat chocolate shop makes its pralines, moulds its shapes and dresses its trays, and what it buys in is the part that is cheaper to buy than to make: sugared almonds and chocolate dragées by colour, chocolate coated almonds and hazelnuts, bulk chocolate for its moulds, and lately the pistachio cream and kadayif filling for the bar everyone asks for. A coating pan is a factory tool and a shop is a workshop; the dragée comes from the pan. The dragée page lists what goes on the tray.
By colour, by the carton
Sugared almonds come one colour per carton or mixed, in the whites, ivories, golds and pastels the occasion trade asks for; chocolate dragées in milk, dark and white, and coated nuts in a matching range. The case weight per line is stated in the offer, so a shop knows how many trays a carton dresses before it orders, and the colours can be run to your own palette on selected lines under the private label page, with the cartons carrying your name.
Eid, weddings and the calendar
Eid comes twice a year, weddings cluster in the cooler months, graduations in early summer and newborns keep no calendar, so a shop plans the whites and ivories for the year and the seasonal colours a container ahead. The Eid ordering article goes through the timing from Gaziantep; the offer states the lead time per line and the transit to Sohar, and the Gulf heat means the chocolate lines are quoted in a reefer in every season while the sugared almonds travel dry.
Who buys the container
A large shop that dresses hundreds of occasions a year fills a container on its own and is quoted like an importer, with the commercial registration and the food-safety registration on its side; a smaller shop buys by the carton from the importer or the wholesaler that brings it in, or pools an order with others, each shop’s cartons on their own pallets. Because the container is mixed, dragées travel next to bulk chocolate, fillings and Turkish delight, so a shop adds the tray lines to an order it was making anyway.
Price, and what is not printed here
The price per line in US dollars, the case count, the pallet plan and the tariff line are in the offer, not on a page, with the duty that applies on the day; nothing that moves with the exchange rate or the season is printed on this site. What a shop sells the dressed tray for is its own craft; what the almonds cost by the carton is in the offer before it orders.
What to send first
The lines from the chocolate page, the dragée page and the Turkish delight page, the quantity per line, the port, Sohar or Salalah, and whether any line carries your own brand. The written offer follows within two working days, in US dollars, with the certifying body named per line; the samples page explains how to taste the lines first, and the Oman page lists what stays the same on every offer.
Can a chocolate shop order dragées in its own colours?
Yes, on selected lines: we run the colours you name and the cartons carry your brand. The minimum per colour is stated in the offer.
Do sugared almonds need a reefer?
No, they travel dry all year. Chocolate dragées and coated nuts travel in the reefer with the chocolate lines, year round on this route.
What is the minimum?
One full container, mixed across lines. A shop that does not fill one buys by the carton from the importer that does, or pools an order.
