Wholesale chocolate market in Dubai: where the cartons come from

The market

Deira and Bur Dubai hold the wholesale chocolate trade of the Emirates: shops and warehouses that sell by the carton to supermarkets, cafeterias, gift houses, hotels, and to the traders who carry cartons on to the Gulf, East Africa and further. The shelves are built from imports, and the imports arrive through foodstuff trading companies that buy containers. That is the link we quote: a foodstuff trading company or distributor filling one mixed container from Gaziantep, each line on its own pallet, with the Arabic label and the halal certificate per line settled before it lands.

What the wholesale shelf wants from Türkiye

The everyday wrapped bar and the kilo assortment first, because they turn fastest and the Gulf shelf has known Turkish chocolate for a generation. Then the pistachio end from Gaziantep, the tablet, the Dubai style bar and the pistachio cream jar, because the same shop sells to cafes and gift houses. Then the giveaway lines, sugared almonds by colour and chocolate dragées, and Turkish delight boxes for the Turkish sweet shops and the gift trade. The product pages list each group.

Price by the carton

Wholesale chocolate market in Dubai with price, chocolate wholesale price in Dubai: the trade searches by price, and the price it needs is the landed one. The offer states the price per line, the case count, the pallet plan, the tariff line and what applies on the day under the UAE–Türkiye agreement, so the importer knows the landed cost before ordering and the wholesale shop knows its margin before the container arrives. Prices are not printed on this site; the offer carries them.

Re-export from the same carton

A carton landed in Jebel Ali often does not stay in the Emirates. The wholesale trade and the free zones send it on, and a re-export list has its own questions: the label language of the second market, the shelf life left after the second leg, the pack that survives two handlings. We state all three per line when the list says re-export, so the second leg is planned with the first. The United Arab Emirates page lists what stays the same on every offer.

What to send first

The lines from the chocolate page, the dragée page and the Turkish delight page, the quantity per line, the port, whether the list is for the UAE shelf or for re-export, and whether it must be halal-certified from named bodies. 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.

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.