Turkish chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and confectionery for importers in Gabon
One mixed container from Gaziantep: 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 Gabon, for confectionery wholesalers that move cartons rather than cases, for the wedding and occasion trade, for bakeries, pastry counters and supermarket buyers, 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 market has two confectionery columns and they are shaped nothing alike. On the only trade figures available — mirror figures, explained below — the chocolate column for 2024 is about 3,991,544 US dollars and it is a European shelf: France at roughly 60.7 per cent, the Netherlands at 13.5, and Türkiye already third at 10.77. The sugar confectionery column is the smaller of the two, about 2,440,130 US dollars, and it behaves in the opposite way: Tunisia at roughly 20.6 per cent, Colombia at 19.3 and France at 15.6, with Türkiye seventh at 5.08 — three continents in the top three and no single source reaching a quarter of the shelf. One column is settled and has been for long enough that nobody on the buying side thinks about it; the other is assembled from wherever the quote came from that year. Neither of those is a market-share pitch, and we will not write one. What is genuinely open, order by order, is narrower and more useful: which line, in which format and case weight, under whose label, and how much of the deal is written down before the money moves.
The search side gives a supplier page almost nothing here, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Counting real local search over two rounds, English produced 313 raw phrases, of which six cleared a twenty-a-month threshold — 170 searches a month between them — and French produced 801 raw phrases, of which five cleared it at 100 a month, those five being one single request spelled five different ways. The wholesale, import and distributor part of both counts is zero. Autocomplete, which costs nothing to run, returned 100 suggestions from ten English seeds and 64 from eight French ones, and none of them asked for a supplier either. This page is therefore 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. The counted phrases are still worth reading, for a different reason: three of the six English ones are French pastry words typed into an English query, and the other three are spellings of a sweet that sits outside what we make. Both are dealt with plainly further down.
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 rather than a separate one for each
- Confectionery wholesalers buying by the carton and by the kilo, with case weight, lead time and the delivery term stated per line instead of agreed on the phone and remembered differently later
- The wedding and occasion trade — the only thing French-language search here asks for in any volume at all — buying sugared almonds and chocolate dragées in the colours the season wants, loose by the kilo or in printed cartons
- Bakeries, pastry counters and supermarket buyers that sell wrapped confectionery, Turkish delight and coated nuts beside their own production rather than instead of it
- 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.
- 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
- Gabon 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 Gabon, added together. On 2024 mirror data that is about 3,991,544 US dollars of chocolate, with Türkiye third at roughly 10.77 per cent, and about 2,440,130 US dollars of sugar confectionery, with Türkiye seventh at roughly 5.08 per cent. Read it as a direction, not as a settled number. A partner that reports late, partially or not at all moves every share in that 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.
- Two columns, two different shelves
- The chocolate column is the larger of the two here and three sources cover most of it: France at roughly 60.7 per cent, the Netherlands at 13.5, Türkiye third at 10.77. That is a shelf with a settled order, and a settled order is not something a supplier page overturns with an argument. The sugar confectionery column is smaller and behaves nothing like it — Tunisia at 20.6, Colombia at 19.3, France at 15.6, Türkiye seventh at 5.08. Three continents in the top three and no source reaching a quarter is what a shelf looks like when it is filled by whoever quoted that season rather than by a standing relationship. The two columns deserve different conversations, and a first list that treats them as one usually gets one of them wrong.
- Türkiye is already third here, and what that changes
- Roughly a tenth of the chocolate arriving in 2024 was Turkish, on mirror data. That is worth saying plainly, because it means the route, the paperwork and the shelf acceptance are not hypothetical — the product already lands here and already sells. It also means a page spending its space arguing that Turkish chocolate belongs on this shelf would be arguing about something decided some time ago. What is still open is narrower and more practical: how many hands sit between the producer and your warehouse, whether the format and the case weight are yours to choose or somebody else's to decide for you, and how much of the deal exists on paper before production starts. One container consolidated in Gaziantep carries lines from our own factory on one order and one document set, with price, case weight, lead time and delivery term written per line.
- Dragées and the wedding calendar
- Every French phrase that cleared our threshold in this market is the same request written five ways — sugared almonds for a wedding — at 20 searches a month each and 100 a month in total. It is a small number and we will not inflate it into a market. But it is the only thing French-language search here asks for by name, and it happens to land on one of our core lines. Sugared almonds and chocolate dragées are quoted in bulk cartons, kilo bags and printed doypacks, in the colours the occasion asks for. Colour is a production run rather than a stock pick, so the minimum per colour and the lead time are stated per line in the offer, and seasonal quantities are booked ahead of the season rather than chased during it.
- The pastry counter is not the confectionery shelf
- Three of the six English phrases above our threshold are not about confectionery at all: éclairs at 50 searches a month, pain au chocolat at 40, profiteroles at 20. Those are bakery items. We do not make them, we will not pretend we do, and nothing on this page is an offer to supply them. They are worth reading for another reason — they show that the vocabulary of this shelf stays French even when the query is typed in English, which is the same thing the trade table says from the other side. One caution on the first of them: across much of this region that word also names a wrapped chewy sweet sold by the kilo, which is a confectionery line rather than a pastry. If that is the one you mean, say so and we confirm which of our lines matches before quoting.
- 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. European labelling rules do not allow it to be called chocolate, and we keep the two words apart everywhere, including on a pack that will never see Europe — a buyer who finds out the difference at the shelf finds out too late.
- The customs file, and what the importer holds
- This file is national. 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 — regional arrangements change, and a figure printed on a web page is out of date before it is read. 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; we name the certifying body and send copies on request instead of describing a document 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 heat
- 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 and the part of the journey we control is predictable. The port of discharge and the delivery term are named in the offer rather than left to memory, and your clearing agent confirms what applies on the day. Temperature is the part worth planning around: a destination sitting on the equator has no cool season to ship into, so chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer and the offer says so per line. Turkish delight, dragées, hard and chewy confectionery and jellies travel dry and take the journey better, and dry and chilled lines can still share one container.
- Sourced on request
- The other three English phrases above our threshold are spellings of baklava, which is a useful place to show where the line falls. The core range is chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars. Everything outside it — baklava, couverture and bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva, tahini and empty packaging — is sourced on request rather than claimed: 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, so asking costs you nothing and tells you something.
- 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 brands in Gabon
On the chocolate column the order has been settled for years; on the confectionery column nobody owns the shelf. Either way, the wrapper is the part still available to own. 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 brands in Gabon →Asked before the first list.
Do you work with importers and wholesalers in Gabon?
We are open to quoting for food importers, distributors, confectionery wholesalers, the wedding and occasion trade, bakeries, supermarket buyers 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 chocolate here is mostly European. Why add a Turkish source?
Because roughly a tenth of it already is Turkish — Türkiye sits third in the 2024 chocolate column at about 10.77 per cent on mirror data — so whether the origin works here is not the open question. What a direct container changes is the number of hands between the producer and your warehouse, and how much of the deal exists on paper: price per line, case weight, lead time, delivery term, payment schedule and document set, written down before anything is made.
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 check your artwork before anything is printed.
The sugar confectionery on this shelf comes from everywhere. Can you supply that side?
Partly, and we would rather be exact than eager. Dragées and sugared almonds, coated nuts, Turkish delight and wrapped confectionery are in our range and are quoted per line with case weight and lead time. Formats we cannot confirm with a producer are sourced on request instead of being listed as ours. It is worth knowing that the Turkish position is stronger on the chocolate column than on this one — third against seventh on the 2024 mirror figures — so a first list often leans that way.
Do you make éclairs, pain au chocolat or profiteroles?
No. Those are bakery items and we do not make them. What we supply sits beside them on the counter rather than replacing them: wrapped confectionery, Turkish delight, coated nuts, dragées and chocolate lines. If by the first of them you mean the wrapped chewy sweet sold by the kilo rather than the pastry, that is a different product, and we confirm which line matches before quoting.
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, since there is no cool season here to ship into, while Turkish delight, dragées and jellies travel dry, and both can travel in one container. The port of discharge and the delivery term are named in 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 →