Turkish chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and confectionery for importers in the Central African Republic
One mixed container from Gaziantep, Türkiye, cleared at the port your agent uses and trucked inland: chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars, with the label content prepared in French. Written offer in US dollars within two working days of your list.
One container, every line, from Gaziantep.
We quote for food importers and distributors in the Central African Republic, for wholesalers in Bangui that move cartons rather than cases, for cash-and-carry operators supplying shops and market traders upcountry, for hotels, bakeries and the gift trade, and for brands that want chocolate, dragées or Turkish delight made under their own name. The unit of sale is one full container, mixed across as many lines as you like. We are a manufacturer and exporter in Gaziantep, Türkiye; the chocolate, dragée, Turkish delight and confectionery lines are made in our own factory in Gaziantep.
This is a small market and a landlocked one, and both facts shape an offer more than origin does. On the import declarations for 2024, 736,368 US dollars of chocolate and 1,213,881 US dollars of sugar confectionery entered the country. The chocolate column is almost one country wide: Cameroon accounts for 94.8 per cent of it, with Turks and Caicos Islands and China at 2.5 per cent each and nothing else worth naming. Türkiye appears in neither table. We would rather write that down than talk around it, because it sets out honestly what this page can offer — not a share to defend, but a second source on a shelf that currently runs on one.
The search side is emptier still, and we measured it before writing rather than after. In English we collected 90 raw phrases for this market and in French 178; at the threshold we count at, twenty searches a month, not one of them survived in either language. Autocomplete behaved the same way: 10 seeds returned 100 suggestions in English and 8 seeds returned 64 in French, with no wholesale, import or distributor query among them. So this page is not written to be found. It is written for the buyer who already found us — through a regional agent, a trade contact, a supplier list, an enquiry sent from a phone in Bangui — and who now wants to know what working with a Gaziantep exporter actually involves: which lines, in which format, into which port, on whose documents, and how much of it is on paper before the money moves.
We supply direct from our own factory in Gaziantep, the city we work in.
- Food importers and distributors clearing at a neighbouring port and hauling inland, wanting one supplier for chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and wrapped confectionery instead of four separate ones
- Wholesalers and cash-and-carry operators in Bangui supplying shops and market traders upcountry, buying by the carton and by the kilo, with case weight and lead time stated per line
- Regional traders already buying across the border who want to compare a container loaded at our factory against the same goods bought from a warehouse one country closer
- Hotels, bakeries and the gift trade buying printed retail boxes, mini-bar assortments and dragée cartons for weddings, holidays and the festive season
- Brands and shop chains that want a tablet, a bar, a dragée doypack or a Turkish delight box made under their own name rather than someone else's wrapper
Six lines, mixed to your list.
Each line travels on its own pallet; the container is mixed. Outside the core range we source on request and load it in the same shipment.
From your list to your port.
- 01
Your list
Product references, quantities and the destination port.
- 02
Written offer
Every line priced, with the pallet plan, within two working days.
- 03
Samples and proforma
Free samples, courier at your cost; 50% with the order.
- 04
One container
Collected, consolidated, photographed pallet by pallet, shipped.
What stays the same on every offer.
Rates and rules change; the quotation states what applies on the day. These points do not change.
- What the import table says
- On what was declared for 2024, chocolate arriving under the cocoa-preparations heading came to 736,368 US dollars and sugar confectionery to 1,213,881 US dollars. Cameroon supplied 94.8 per cent of the chocolate, with Turks and Caicos Islands and China at 2.5 per cent each; on the confectionery side Cameroon supplied 72.3 per cent, the United Arab Emirates 14.8 per cent and Morocco 6.7 per cent. Türkiye is in neither table. That is the honest starting point for this page: nothing here is being defended and nothing is being claimed back. These are also modest figures by the standards of this trade, which is why we quote one mixed container across many lines rather than pretend a dedicated load per product makes sense at this size.
- One neighbour — and what that share actually measures
- Read the 94.8 per cent carefully. This market has no coastline; goods reach it by road from a port in a neighbouring country, and for a landlocked market the country a consignment was bought from and the country it was made in are not always the same. A share that large can mean manufacture next door, or it can mean a warehouse next door reselling what arrived from further away. The declarations do not separate the two, and we will not guess which it is on your behalf. Either way it tells you the shape of the chain rather than the quality of the goods: on the chocolate line, very nearly everything on the shelf has passed through the same set of hands before it reaches yours, and each of those hands is priced in.
- Confectionery is the bigger line, and the less crowded one
- The sugar confectionery figure is the larger of the two, and it is sourced differently. Alongside Cameroon at 72.3 per cent sit the United Arab Emirates at 14.8 per cent and Morocco at 6.7 per cent — neither of them a neighbour, neither of them a short haul from a border post. That matters more than it looks. It is this market's own evidence that goods shipped from outside the region arrive, clear and reach the shelf, on ordinary commercial terms. A container consolidated in Gaziantep is the same kind of movement. We are not asking you to try something the market has never done; we are asking to be quoted against a route it already uses.
- Cocoa in the region, finished chocolate from outside it
- Cocoa grows in this part of the continent, and it is worth saying plainly that this does not put finished chocolate on the shelf. Beans leave the region; tablets, bars, wafers and dragées come back into it from factories elsewhere, which is exactly what the import table above records. Our lines are finished products made in our own factory in Gaziantep, and the technical data sheet states the composition we declare. Cocoa itself, couverture and bulk chocolate by the kilo are outside what we make: they are sourced on request, and we confirm composition and format before quoting.
- Route, delivery terms and temperature
- Delivery terms quoted are FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP. Our factory is in Gaziantep and Mersin port is about three hours away by road, so consolidation and loading sit inside a short window on our side. After the sea leg the container is back on the road, and that is the part worth writing down rather than assuming: the offer names the port of entry, the delivery term, who arranges the inland haul and whose agent files the consignment at each step. Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer through the warm months; Turkish delight, dragées and jellies travel dry, and both can share one container. If the inland leg is long enough to change what we would load, we say so before you order rather than after the pallets arrive soft.
- Label, in French
- The mandatory information in French, with English alongside where your file or the shelf wants it: the name of the food, the ingredient list with allergens, metric net weight, storage conditions, the importer's name and address, and the date marking. For lines in our standard packs we confirm what the export pack already carries; for own-label lines we prepare the content from our technical data sheet and check your artwork before anything is printed. One discipline we do not bend: a line coated in vegetable fat is named a compound or a glaze on the data sheet, on the pack and in the price list, never chocolate. The two words are kept apart, because a buyer who discovers the difference at the shelf discovers it too late.
- Documents, certificates and who holds what
- From our side you receive the technical data sheet per product, our certificates and the analysis report per line. Certificates are issued for our factory, and the offer names the holder and the certifying body per line; lines with ingredients of animal origin, gelatine in jellies above all, travel with our halal certificate. The origin document and the rules that apply are named in the offer as they stand on the day, rather than guessed at on a page, because they change and a page does not. The importer holds the registration and files the consignment, and where the goods cross a border inland your agent confirms what that leg requires before the container leaves us.
- Why this page is not written to be found
- We measured the search demand for this market in both languages before writing a word of it. English returned 90 raw phrases and French 178, and at the threshold we count at not one phrase in either language cleared it; autocomplete returned 100 suggestions from 10 English seeds and 64 from 8 French seeds, with no wholesale or import query among them. There is no search channel here to win, so this page does not perform for one. It exists to answer the questions a buyer who reached us some other way asks next, in enough detail that our first reply can be an offer instead of a questionnaire.
- Sourced on request
- The core range is chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars. Everything outside it is sourced on request rather than claimed as ours: couverture and bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini, baklava and empty packaging. We confirm composition and format before quoting, and if a line cannot be confirmed it does not go into the offer. What is confirmed loads in the same container as the rest.
- Currency and payment
- Offers in US dollars. Bank transfer only: 50 per cent with the order, 50 per cent before the container leaves, against the loading photographs. The offer states the banking route that applies on the day, settled in writing before production starts rather than after the pallets are wrapped.
Private label chocolate and confectionery for Central African brands
Where almost the whole chocolate shelf arrives through one neighbouring country, every trader is selling the same wrapper at a slightly different price. We put our own lines under your name instead: tablets, bars, dragées in doypacks, gift boxes, Turkish delight boxes and spreads in jars, with the label content prepared in French and nothing printed before you approve it.
Private label for Central African brands →Asked before the first list.
Do you work with importers in the Central African Republic?
We are open to quoting for food importers, distributors, wholesalers, cash-and-carry operators, the gift trade and own-brand buyers. Send the product references, the quantities you have in mind and the delivery point — port of entry or inland address — and the written offer follows within two working days.
Türkiye is not in the import table at all. Why would we be the first to try it?
Because the confectionery side of that same table shows the route already works: the United Arab Emirates at 14.8 per cent and Morocco at 6.7 per cent are neither of them neighbours, and their goods clear and reach the shelf. What is missing is not the capability, it is a second source on the chocolate line, where 94.8 per cent currently comes through one country.
We are landlocked. Which delivery term makes sense?
It depends where you want the risk to change hands, so we quote more than one and let you choose. FCA Gaziantep and FOB Mersin leave the sea and inland legs with you; CIF ends at the port of entry; DAP carries on to a named inland point. The offer names the port, the delivery term, who arranges the road leg and whose agent files what at each step.
Which language does the label need?
French for the mandatory information, with English alongside where your file or the shelf wants it. For own-label lines we prepare the content from our technical data sheet and check your artwork before anything is printed.
Will chocolate hold up over the inland road leg?
That is decided by how the load is built, not by hope, so we settle it before the order. Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer through the warm months; Turkish delight, dragées, wrapped confectionery and jellies travel dry and are less exposed. Tell us the port of entry and the inland destination and we say plainly which lines we would load for that journey and which we would move to a cooler month.
Do you supply cocoa, couverture or bulk chocolate by the kilo?
Not from our own range, and we would rather say so than list them. Cocoa, couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, halva, tahini, baklava and empty packaging are sourced on request: we confirm composition and format before quoting, and an unconfirmed line stays out of the offer.
Is Antep Foods a chocolate manufacturer in Türkiye?
Yes. Antep Foods is a manufacturer and exporter in Gaziantep, exporting since 2002. Production takes place in our own factory; certificates and data sheets are issued for our factory. Wholesale only; prices come in a written offer, not on the site.
Send the list. We do the rest.
Send your product list with approximate quantities and the destination port. You get one offer covering every line, then one container, loaded and photographed before the doors close.
Mixed containerHow a list becomes a container →