What already sells
Sri Lanka has its own chocolate makers and a supermarket shelf full of imported brands, and Turkish wafers, wrapped bars and sweets have reached the grocery shelf through importers who know Colombo and the paperwork. An importer that wants to add those lines can carry established Turkish chocolate brands from the start; the brands or your own label article goes through the choice, and the confectionery page lists the lines.
What is missing
The pistachio end. The local factory makes the everyday bar well, and an imported everyday bar competes on price alone; what the island does not have is the pistachio grown around Gaziantep, and that is where the Turkish lines earn their place on the supermarket chiller and the hotel shelf: the pistachio tablet, the Dubai style bar, pistachio cream in jars, chocolate coated pistachio dragées, and the Turkish delight roll filled with whole pistachio. The pistachio page and the Turkish delight page list the groups.
The hotel shelf
The hotels of Colombo and the coast buy a turndown chocolate, a pistachio jar for the breakfast table and a gift box for the shop, and they buy through a hotel supplier that fills a container the way an importer does. The Sri Lankan private label page goes through the hotel’s own name on the pack, and the same container carries the grocery lines for the wholesaler on their own pallets.
Who buys the container
The unit of sale is one full container, mixed across lines. A food importer, a Pettah wholesale house, a supermarket chain or a hotel supplier fills it, with the licence and the registration on its side; a grocery or a hotel shop buys by the carton from the importer that brings it in. The offer puts the price in US dollars with the tariff line, the duty and levies that apply on the day and the inspection cost where it applies.
Dry or reefer
Wafers, compound lines, wrapped sweets, sugared almonds and Turkish delight travel dry all year; chocolate lines go in the reefer, year round on this route, and are stated as chocolate on the offer. The mixed-container page explains how the load is built, each line on its own pallet, so an importer can add the pistachio end to an order of the everyday lines it was making anyway.
What to send first
The lines from the chocolate page, the confectionery page and the Turkish delight page, the quantity per line, and whether any line carries your own brand. The written offer follows within two working days, in US dollars and the inspection stated; the samples page explains how to taste the lines first, and the Sri Lanka page lists what stays the same on every offer.
Every line here is made in our own factory at Başpınar OSB, Gaziantep — a 10,000 m² site, exporting since 2002 — and certificate copies are available on request.
Can we carry Turkish brands or do we need our own?
Both. Most lines are available in our standard packs from the first container; on selected lines the same products can be made under your own name.
Do you compete with Sri Lankan chocolate?
Not on the everyday bar. We quote what the island does not make: the pistachio end, dragées, Turkish delight, and the wafers and wrapped sweets the wholesale trade buys on price.
Is the container a reefer?
For chocolate lines, yes, year round on this route. Compound lines and dry lines are quoted as the offer states.
