When origin is settled, the question drops to the product

Two figures that close one question and open another

Mirror data is what every other country recorded as having shipped here, added together. Read the two figures as a direction rather than a settled total: a mirror moves whenever a reporting partner files late or partially.

What they do settle is the part buyers usually spend time on: nobody here needs persuading that Turkish confectionery belongs on this shelf, because it largely is the shelf. So the conversation drops a level, to the product.

Chocolate: plain, filled, and the thick bar

Plain or filled? Different production runs, different case weights, and the filling decides the storage line printed on the pack. Chocolate or a compound coating? Those two words stay apart on the data sheet, the wrapper and the price list: a line coated in vegetable fat is a compound or a glaze, never written as chocolate.

Then the thick filled bar in the Dubai style — pistachio and kadayıf under a coating — now a standing line in Gaziantep. Bar weight, mould size and wrapper differ by producer, so what can actually be run is confirmed before it enters an offer.

Dragées: colour and calibre are the decision

With dragées the recipe is rarely the difficulty; colour and calibre are. Each colour is a separate run, so the minimum belongs to the colour rather than to the line — a box mixing six colours is six decisions. Calibre, the size of the almond or nut under the coating, changes the count per kilo and how a carton of the same weight looks when it is opened.

Name the colour set and the calibre you are matching, and say whether the goods go into kilo cartons or printed bags.

Turkish delight: plain, coated, or a roll

Turkish delight splits three ways: the plain cut cube, the coated version with chocolate or with a compound over it, and the roll with a nut core sliced at the counter. Not variations of one item — separate lines, separate handling, separate case weights.

Levantine shelves also use their own names for sweets standing beside these, and one name can point at two products depending on who says it. Name the format — sheet or cube, walnut or pistachio, loose or boxed — and we confirm which of our lines answers it.

Four formats, one decision each

The same sweet behaves like four products depending on how it is packed. A bulk carton is cheapest per kilo and leaves presentation to the shop. A retail pack carries the mandatory label panel and fixes the unit weight. A window box sells by showing the product, and the gift trade asks for it. A jar is its own category: the spreads, quoted per jar size.

Each carries a different minimum, a different lead time and a different artwork cost. One container holds all four; what it cannot hold is a format we do not run.

What we ask before quoting

So this page asks rather than promises. Send the lines, the format for each, the case weight you work to, and whether the pack stays in our standard pack or carries your brand — in the second case nothing is printed without your written approval.

What comes back is written down: technical data sheet, ingredients and allergens, net weight, carton and pallet figures, the minimum and the lead time, with label content prepared in Arabic. We quote FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP; Mersin is about three hours from our factory by road (how wework). The origin document and the rules that apply are named in the offer. Couverture and bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini, baklava and empty packaging sit outside the range: sourced on request, with composition and format confirmed beforequoting.