Turkish chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and confectionery for importers in Eritrea
One mixed container from Gaziantep: chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars, with the label content prepared in English, Arabic alongside where your import file asks for it, and the chocolate and compound lines named apart on every page of the offer. 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 Eritrea, for confectionery wholesalers that move cartons rather than cases, for the occasion and gift trade, for bakeries and sweet counters, 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 recorded trade here is very small, and the honest thing is to put that at the top rather than three screens down. On the only figures available — mirror figures, explained below — the whole recorded chocolate column for 2024 is 22,518 US dollars, and the whole recorded sugar confectionery column is 14,268. Türkiye appears in neither table. The shelf that is recorded is not crowded either, and it is not filled from nearby: Italy is first in both columns, at roughly 65.3 per cent of the chocolate and roughly 81.9 per cent of the confectionery, with Malaysia at roughly 24.5 per cent of the chocolate and roughly 0.1 per cent of the confectionery, and Saudi Arabia at roughly 4.8 and roughly 17.9 per cent of the two. A market page usually opens by arguing for a share of a column. There is no column here worth taking a share of, and we are not going to invent one. What a figure that size does say is narrower and more useful: almost nothing on this shelf is settled, and a buyer looking for a second source is not fighting an incumbent's volume — they are opening a line.
The search side gives no help at all, and we would rather write that down than publish a page pretending otherwise. Counting real local search over two rounds, English produced 91 raw phrases and not one of them cleared a twenty-a-month threshold; Arabic produced 11, and again none cleared it. The wholesale, import and distributor part of both counts is zero a month. Autocomplete, which costs nothing to run, returned 100 suggestions from 10 English seeds and had nothing at all to work with in Arabic — no seeds, no suggestions. So this page is not written to be found. It is written for a buyer who arrived some other way — a referral, a trade contact, a message — and who wants to know what working with us actually looks like before spending an hour on it. What the public results do show is where an online search lands instead: social platforms and video, bulk and gift sellers positioned for Britain, a wholesale shop positioned for the Gulf, and retail sweet shops in North America. Every one of those is a shelf that has already been bought once. A container consolidated in Gaziantep and shipped on your own order takes a step out of that chain, and we are open to quoting it in writing.
We supply direct from our own factory in Gaziantep, the city we work in.
- Food importers and distributors supplying groceries, supermarkets and regional wholesalers, and wanting one supplier for chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and wrapped confectionery rather than a separate chain for each
- Confectionery wholesalers buying by the carton and by the kilo, with case weight, lead time and the delivery term stated per line so a consignment can be planned rather than discovered on arrival
- The occasion and gift trade buying printed retail boxes, mini-bar assortments and dragée cartons for weddings, births and the religious seasons
- Bakeries, sweet counters and cafés that sell boxed chocolate, coated nuts and Turkish delight alongside their own production
- Brands and retail buyers 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.
- 03
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
- Eritrea 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 Eritrea, added together. On 2024 mirror data that is 22,518 US dollars of chocolate and 14,268 US dollars of sugar confectionery. Read it as a direction, not as a settled number — and read it with more caution here than in most markets, because the smaller the column the less it takes to move it. A partner that reports late, partially or not at all can shift a share by tens of points, and nobody outside the customs houses knows by how much. We publish it because it changes what this page may honestly claim, not because it is exact.
- Figures this small, and what they may not be used for
- A recorded chocolate column of 22,518 US dollars across a whole year is not a market in the sense that word usually carries on a supplier page, and we are not going to dress it up as one. Türkiye is absent from both tables, so there is no share for us to defend and none for us to claim. What the figures are good for is deciding how to begin: with a written price on a short list of lines rather than a forecast, with format and case weight settled before anything is made, and with the understanding that goods may reach this shelf by routes no customs table on either side ever counted. If you know that trade better than a mirror table does — and if you are reading this, you probably do — tell us what actually sells and we will quote against that rather than against the statistics.
- Two shelves, filled from two directions
- The chocolate column and the sugar confectionery column do not have the same shape here. Italy is first in both, at roughly 65.3 per cent of the chocolate and roughly 81.9 per cent of the confectionery. After that they separate. Malaysia is roughly 24.5 per cent of the chocolate and roughly 0.1 per cent of the confectionery; Saudi Arabia is roughly 4.8 per cent of the chocolate and roughly 17.9 per cent of the confectionery. So a quarter of the recorded chocolate arrives from a direction that barely touches the sweet counter, and the sweet counter is fed from a third place again. That matters in a practical way rather than an analytical one: chocolate and sugar confectionery are not necessarily reaching you through the same hands, on the same terms or at the same frequency. Gaziantep can put both in one container on one order and one document set, which is a different proposition from keeping two chains alive.
- Chocolate and compound, kept apart
- We do not know line by line what sits behind the figures above, and we are not going to speculate about anybody else's product. What we can control is our own vocabulary. A line coated in vegetable fat is a compound or a glaze on the technical data sheet, on the pack and in the price list — never chocolate. The two words stay apart in every document we send, because a buyer who discovers the difference at the shelf discovers it too late, and because the same coating may not be labelled chocolate in Europe, which is worth knowing if you also price against product that arrived from there. If a compound line is the right answer for your price point, say so and we will quote it as what it is.
- Label language: your file decides it, not us
- English, Arabic and Tigrinya are all in everyday use here, and we are not going to guess which of them your import file requires. Tell us what it asks for. We prepare the label content in English and, where you want it, in Arabic: 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, every figure taken from our technical data sheet. If content is needed in Tigrinya, you supply the wording and we place it and check it against the artwork — we do not translate into a language we cannot check ourselves, and we would rather say so plainly than have a pack printed wrong. For lines in our standard packs we confirm what the export pack already carries before you order.
- The customs file, and what the importer holds
- This file is national. No regional movement certificate carries it and no European conformity declaration sits behind it, because those belong to other routes. The origin document and the rules that apply are named in the offer, 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, and we do not describe one we do not hold. Lines with ingredients of animal origin, gelatine in jellies above all, travel with our halal certificate, and the offer names the certifying body per line. 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 is about three hours away by road, so consolidation and loading sit inside a short window. From there the sea leg runs south, and the coast at the far end is a Red Sea coast — a short way of saying the container spends its last days in heat. The port of discharge, the delivery term and the transit are named in the offer, and your clearing agent confirms what applies on the day. 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 you would rather trade the reefer cost against the format, say so early: the pack and the coating are chosen with the loading season in mind, not afterwards.
- Starting on paper, and starting wide
- The unit of sale is one full container, and it can be mixed across as many lines as you like. On a shelf where little is established, a first order usually spreads across chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and wrapped confectionery so the box is filled by range rather than by depth, and so anything that does not move is a carton rather than a pallet. Everything that makes that decidable sits in the offer before money moves: price per line, case weight, lead time, delivery term, payment schedule and document set, in writing, within two working days of your list.
- 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: 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: a deposit against the order and the balance before the container leaves, released against the loading photographs. The split and the banking route that applies on the day are stated in the offer and settled in writing before production starts, rather than after the pallets are wrapped.
Private label chocolate and confectionery for Eritrean brands
On a shelf fed from a long way off by very few hands, the name on the pack is the one thing an importer can own. We put our own lines under your brand: tablets, bars, dragées in doypacks, gift boxes, Turkish delight and spreads in jars, with the label content prepared in English and nothing printed before you approve it.
Private label for Eritrean brands →Asked before the first list.
Do you work with importers and wholesalers in Eritrea?
We are open to quoting for food importers, distributors, confectionery wholesalers, the occasion trade, bakeries and sweet counters, and own-brand buyers. Send the product references, the quantities you have in mind and the delivery point; the written offer follows within two working days.
The recorded figures show nothing arriving from Türkiye. Should that put us off?
It is the honest starting point, which is why it is at the top of the page rather than buried at the bottom. It means there is no established Turkish column here to point at, and it also means the mirror table is small enough that one unrecorded consignment moves it. We would rather quote against what you know sells than against a statistic either of us could argue with. What Gaziantep offers is range in one box and a document set that matches it: chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and jars from our own factory on one order.
Which language does the label need?
Your import file decides that, and you are better placed to read it than we are. We prepare the content in English and, where you want it, in Arabic, taken from our technical data sheet. If Tigrinya is required, you supply the wording and we place it and check it against the artwork, rather than translating into a language we cannot check ourselves.
How do we know whether a line is chocolate or a compound coating?
Because it says so, in the same words, in three places: the technical data sheet, the pack and the price list. A vegetable-fat coating is named a compound or a glaze and never chocolate — including on a European label, where it may not be called chocolate at all. If a compound line fits your price point we will quote it as one. What we will not do is let the two words blur in a document you are going to show a customer.
Which delivery terms do you quote, and is the container a reefer?
FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP; Mersin is about three hours from our factory by road. Chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer through the warm months, while Turkish delight, dragées and jellies travel dry, and both can travel in one container. The port of discharge, the delivery term and the transit are named in the offer.
Do you supply couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, or raw nuts?
Not from our own range. Couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini, baklava and empty packaging are sourced on request: we confirm composition and format before quoting, and if a line cannot be confirmed it stays out of the offer. What is confirmed loads in the same container as the rest.
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.
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