A table this short measures the record, not the shelf

What was written down, and what was eaten

Those two figures are not typing errors, and they are not the whole of what is sold here either. They are the whole of what somebody wrote down and matched to this destination.

The distance between those two sentences is the subject of this page. A mirror table is built from other people’s bookkeeping: the arithmetic is sound, the coverage is not. A partner reporting late or not at all drops out. We publish it because it changes what may honestly be claimed, not because it is exact.

What a percentage does on a base this short

Italy is first in both columns — roughly 65.3 per cent of the chocolate and roughly 81.9 per cent of the sugar confectionery. Malaysia holds about 24.5 per cent of the chocolate and about 0.1 of the confectionery; Saudi Arabia about 4.8 and about 17.9.

Every one of those shares is calculated on a very short column, which is worth saying before anyone plans against them. One unreported consignment moves a share by tens of points. The decimals are real arithmetic on incomplete input: precise, which is not the same thing as accurate.

Three origins, three different chains

Read as routes rather than tastes, the three names describe three unrelated chains. One is a European branded route, carrying a European margin inside the price. One is a long haul from a manufacturing and re-export hub in Southeast Asia, which is why it fills a quarter of the chocolate column and barely touches the sweet counter. One is a short hop across the water, doing the reverse.

None of the three is a short chain. Each carton has been bought and sold at least once before it reaches you, and carries the handling of whoever bought it first.

Why the two columns disagree

Part of the answer is physical, and it matters when you plan a load. Turkish delight, dragées, jellies and wrapped confectionery travel dry and take a long road leg without complaint. Chocolate does not, and the far end of this route is a Red Sea coast: the last days of the voyage are spent in heat.

So the sweet column can be fed from almost anywhere, while the chocolate column narrows to origins willing to send it cold or to change the format until it survives — a packing decision taken before production rather than at the port.

Absence is a starting point, not a verdict

Türkiye is in neither table, and that is the honest headline rather than a footnote. It cuts both ways. There is no established column to defend and none to claim, so nothing here rests on a share already held — and a table this short is moved by a single consignment.

A supplier page normally argues for a slice of a column. There is none here worth slicing. The useful question is narrower: what actually sells on your shelf, in which format and at which price point. You can answer that; a mirror table cannot.

Turning a column into a container

One container can be mixed across chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars, from our own factory on one order and one document set (mixed container). Two naming rules travel with it: a vegetable-fat coating is a compound or a glaze in every document, never chocolate — in Europe it may not be labelled chocolate at all — and the jar line is a spread.

Send the references you want priced, the format and case weight for each, an indicative quantity and the handover point. The offer comes back line by line and states what applies on the day. Terms are FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP; Mersin is about three hours away by road (how we work).