Turkish chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and confectionery for importers in the Republic of the Congo
One mixed container from Gaziantep: chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars, with the mandatory label content prepared in French and English alongside where you want it. 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 Republic of the Congo, for confectionery wholesalers that buy by the carton rather than the case, for supermarkets and the boutique trade, for pastry counters and bakeries that sell sweets alongside their own production, 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.
The shape of this shelf is unusual, and it is worth saying plainly before anything else. On 2024 mirror figures — the only view available for this market, and explained in the notes below — the chocolate arriving here is worth about 13,444,024 US dollars, roughly double the 6,500,207 US dollars of sugar confectionery. That is the reverse of the ratio an importer usually expects at this market size. The chocolate column is not merely led by one source, it is very nearly held by one: Belgium at 72.2 per cent, then Morocco at 6.6 per cent, then Türkiye at 5.2 per cent. The sugar confectionery column is the opposite picture — Colombia at 40.7 per cent, Morocco at 25.2 per cent, India at 8.0 per cent, with Türkiye fourth at 7.07 per cent — three continents, no neighbour, and a long sea leg behind every one of them. Turkish product is therefore already on this shelf and already clears here. It is simply not near the top of it, and that changes what there is left to argue about.
So this page is not written to be found. We measured the search side in both languages before writing a word of it, and there is no buying channel to speak of: 285 English phrases counted, five of them above a twenty-a-month threshold, about 150 searches a month between them, and none of that wholesale, import or distributor demand — zero. In French, 627 phrases counted and not one above the threshold. The five English phrases that did clear it are éclairs at 50 a month, pain au chocolat at 40, and baklava in two spellings at 20 each. That is a pastry counter talking, not a purchasing department, and it is far too small to build anything on. We publish it because it decided how this page is written: to answer what an importer who reached us some other way will actually ask — which line, in which format and case weight, under whose label, how many hands sit between the producer and your warehouse, and how much of the deal 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 supplying supermarkets, groceries and regional wholesalers, and wanting one supplier for chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and wrapped confectionery instead of four
- Confectionery wholesalers buying by the carton and by the kilo for shops, kiosks and the street trade, with case weight, format and lead time stated per line
- Supermarkets and the boutique trade wanting a second source on a chocolate shelf currently filled from one distant origin, and a reorder they control rather than inherit
- Pastry counters, bakeries and hotels — the only sweet vocabulary the search here actually turns up — buying wrapped lines, dragées and Turkish delight to sell beside their own production
- Brands and retail 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.
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Your list
Product references, quantities and the destination port.
- 02
Written offer
Every line priced, with the pallet plan, within two working days.
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Samples and proforma
Free samples, courier at your cost; 50% with the order.
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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 mirror figures say — and what they do not
- The Republic of the Congo does not report its own import statistics to the international trade database. The only view available is the mirror: what every other country recorded as exports to this market, added together. On 2024 mirror data that is about 13,444,024 US dollars of chocolate and about 6,500,207 US dollars of sugar confectionery. Read those as a direction, not as a settled number. A partner that reports late, partially or not at all moves every share in the table, and nobody outside the customs houses knows by how much. We publish it because it changes what this page can honestly claim, not because it is exact.
- One origin holds the chocolate shelf
- On the same 2024 mirror data, Belgium accounts for 72.2 per cent of the chocolate arriving here, Morocco for 6.6 per cent and Türkiye for 5.2 per cent — third place, on 5.17 per cent of the column. We are not going to tell you the shelf is empty, because it plainly is not. What a shelf filled at that concentration lacks is not product, it is an alternative: a second source to price against, a second lead time to plan around, and somebody else to call when the first one is short. That is the conversation this page is for, and it is a narrower and more honest one than asking you to try an unfamiliar origin.
- The confectionery shelf comes from three continents
- Sugar confectionery arrives here from Colombia at 40.7 per cent, Morocco at 25.2 per cent and India at 8.0 per cent, with Türkiye fourth at 7.07 per cent. None of those is a neighbour, and every one of them is a long sea leg with a consolidator somewhere in the middle. The useful question on this column is not origin at all — it is how many hands sit between the factory and your warehouse, because each of them is priced in. A container loaded at our factory in Gaziantep and shipped on your order removes a step from that chain. Whether it removes enough of one to matter for your lines is something a written offer settles and a web page cannot.
- Türkiye is already on this shelf
- Third in chocolate and fourth in sugar confectionery on the 2024 mirror data. That matters more for what it takes out of the conversation than for what it adds: the origin is not a trial, the paperwork is not novel to your clearing agent, and Turkish confectionery has already been landed, cleared and sold here. What is still open, order by order, is narrower and more useful — which line out of a wide range, in which format, wrapped bar, tablet, doypack, kilo carton or printed gift box, at which case weight, under whose label, and how much of the deal exists on paper before production starts.
- 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 against it before anything is printed.
- Chocolate and compound are not the same word
- A coating made with vegetable fat cannot be labelled chocolate in the European Union, and since most of the chocolate on this shelf arrives from there, that is the standard the product beside yours is already held to. We keep the two apart everywhere: a compound or a glaze is named as such on the technical data sheet, on the pack and in the price list, never as chocolate. Compound is not a lesser option — it stands up to heat better, which is exactly why the wholesale trade asks for it — but it is sold under its own name. A buyer who discovers the difference at the shelf discovers it too late.
- The customs file, and what the importer holds
- This file is national, and the offer states what applies on the day rather than this page guessing at it. 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 — food safety, halal and kosher — and the certifying body is named per line; lines carrying ingredients of animal origin, gelatine in jellies above all, travel with our halal certificate where your trade needs it. The importer holds the registration and files the consignment.
- 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. From there it is a sea leg to the Atlantic coast; the discharge port, the transshipment, the delivery term and the transit are named in the offer, and your clearing agent confirms what applies on the day. If the consignment carries on inland to Brazzaville after discharge, say so at the quotation stage, because the term decides where that leg stops being ours and starts being yours. This market sits on the equator and the shelf is warm in every season, so chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer year round rather than seasonally; Turkish delight, dragées and jellies travel dry, and both can share one container.
- What the search turned up — and what we do not make
- Five English phrases cleared the twenty-a-month threshold here, about 150 searches a month between them: éclairs at 50, pain au chocolat at 40, and baklava in two spellings at 20 each. Two of those are a pastry counter and one is a sweet we do not produce, and we are not going to let a search figure talk us into implying otherwise. Baklava is outside our range, as are couverture and bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini and empty packaging. All of them are sourced on request: we confirm composition and format before quoting, and a line that cannot be confirmed does not go into the offer. What a pastry counter can buy from our own range is the finished side of its shelf — wrapped bars and wafers, dragées and coated nuts, boxed Turkish delight and spreads in jars to sell beside its own baking. Whatever is confirmed loads in the same container as the rest.
- Currency and payment
- Offers in US dollars. Bank transfer only: 50% with the order, 50% before the container leaves, against the loading photographs. The offer states the banking route that applies on the day, and it is settled in writing before production starts rather than after the pallets are wrapped.
Private label chocolate and confectionery for Congolese brands
On a chocolate shelf filled almost entirely from one distant origin, a distributor is selling somebody else's wrapper. We put our own lines under your name: tablets, bars, dragées in doypacks, gift boxes, Turkish delight and spreads in jars, with the label content prepared in French and nothing printed before you approve it.
Private label for Congolese brands →Asked before the first list.
Do you work with importers and wholesalers in the Republic of the Congo?
We are open to quoting for food importers, distributors, confectionery wholesalers, supermarkets, the pastry and bakery trade and own-brand buyers. Send the product references, the quantities you have in mind and the delivery point, and the written offer follows within two working days.
Almost the whole chocolate shelf here comes from one origin. Why change that?
Not to replace it — to have a second option beside it. On 2024 mirror figures one origin accounts for 72.2 per cent of the chocolate arriving here, which is a comfortable shelf right up until it is short or the price moves. A Gaziantep container gives you a second source to price against, a range that covers chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and jars on one order and one document set, and case weight, lead time and delivery term written per line.
How reliable are the figures on this page?
They are the only figures there are, and they are not settled. This market does not report its own imports to the international trade database, so everything here is mirror data: what everyone else recorded as exports to it in 2024, added together. Countries that report late or partially shift every share in that table. We would rather show you the figure together with the caveat than a confident number with the caveat taken out.
Which language does the label need?
French for the mandatory information, with English alongside where your file or the shelf wants it. 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 you approve the artwork in writing before anything is printed.
Will chocolate survive the route and the shelf?
Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer year round on this route rather than only through a warm season, because there is not a cool one. Turkish delight, dragées and jellies travel dry and can share the same container. Where the shelf or the final leg is genuinely hot, compound-coated lines hold up better — and they are quoted, labelled and priced as compound, never as chocolate.
Which delivery terms do you quote?
FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP; Mersin is about three hours from our factory by road. The offer names the discharge port, the transshipment, the term and the transit. If the consignment moves inland after discharge, tell us at the quotation stage so the term is set at the right point rather than argued about later.
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 →