What two dollars a kilo actually describes
A unit value is an arithmetic average — declared value divided by weight. At $2.00 per kilo for chocolate and $1.74 for sugar confectionery, it tells you what the bulk of the flow is: long runs, thin counts, weigh-out goods sold by the kilo from an open carton. That trade is real, and priced where it is priced.
We will not dress those figures up. But an average describes the middle of a flow, not its ceiling: a buyer going above it is buying a different product, not a discount on the same one.
What goes on top of it
Our range is the upper half of the category: lokum with whole pistachios, the nut visible in the cut face; double-roasted lokum; kadayıf-wrapped lines; the pistachio-and-kadayıf dubai-style bar; chocolate dragées and sugared almonds sorted by colour and calibre for the weigh-out shelf.
These lines exist for a structural reason, not a marketing one. In Gaziantep pistachio and kadayıf are both current line items — daily inputs in the city where the factories stand — so such a line is what we already run, not a project assembled for an enquiry. In sugar confectionery Turkey already ranks fifth among sources here, at 8.81% of imports: no cold start.
The minimum is per line, not per container
The sales unit is a full container or a full truck; there is no part load. But the minimum that decides what you can actually try is set per line written into the quotation — not per container. That is why a mixed load works at all.
So a first order can carry six or seven items in measured quantities rather than one item nobody can sell — each on its own pallet, under one packing list.
Temperature is decided before loading
Chocolate and chocolate-coated products travel at +18 to +20 °C. In hot months we quote a refrigerated container. If a dry container is preferred, the temperature risk passes to the buyer in writing, before loading — not at unpacking.
Lokum, sugared almonds and jelly lines travel dry all year, which is why they sit well beside chocolate in one load: they are indifferent to the season the chocolate half is sensitive to.
Two naming questions, settled before the plate is made
The jar first. Buyers look for it under a word that translates as paste, and the correction is commercial, not pedantic: what we ship is a pistachio spread for the retail shelf — a spread, not a 100% patisserie paste for filling and flavouring. A pastry ingredient is a different product, confirmed before we quote.
Then the coating. One made with vegetablefat cannot be called chocolate: it is a cocoa glaze, and must be named as one. The quotation states, for every line, which of the two it is, so no artwork is built around a word the product cannot carry.
What to send
Kyrgyzstan is in the Eurasian Economic Union: the pack follows the Union's technical regulations and carries the EAC mark; the declaration behind it sits with the party placing the goods on the market, not with us. Food safety, halal and kosher certificates are issued for our factory — copies are available on request. The quotation states what applies on the day it is issued.
For a written quotation within two working days, send the lines and format you want, the destination city, whose details go on the pack, and whether the order is private label. Back comes, line by line: specification, ingredients and allergens, net weight, case and pallet data, minimum and tariff heading. Payment is 50% at order and 50% before the container leaves, against loading photographs. The Kyrgyzstan page sets out the range; Turkish delight covers the lokum formats.
Turkish chocolate reaches Kyrgyzstan at about $2.00 a kilo. Can you sell at that level?
That figure is an average of the volume end — long runs and weigh-out goods — and it is not what our range is built for. Our lines are whole-pistachio and double-roasted lokum, kadayıf-wrapped items, the dubai-style bar and calibrated dragées, and they are priced as the products they are. The quotation gives a value per line, so you can compare like with like.
Is the minimum quantity set per container or per line?
Per line, and it is written into the quotation. The sales unit is still a full container or full truck with no part loads, but because each line carries its own minimum, a first order can hold six or seven items in measured quantities, each on its own pallet under a single packing list.
Is the pistachio jar a paste or a spread?
It is a spread for the retail shelf, not a 100% patisserie paste for filling and flavouring, even where the local search term translates as paste. If you need a pastry ingredient rather than a shelf product, say so before we quote: that item is outside the main range, and composition and format would be confirmed first.
