Turkish chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and confectionery for importers in Seychelles

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.

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 figures say, and what they do not

These are direct figures: the market's own declared imports for 2024, not a mirror reconstruction built from what other countries say they shipped. That makes them steadier than the numbers we publish for several neighbouring markets, and it is worth saying so. Chocolate came in at 5,761,613 US dollars and sugar confectionery at 1,957,168 US dollars, with Türkiye fifteenth at 0.81 per cent and nineteenth at 0.32 per cent. What such a column cannot tell you is where the product was made. It records the country a consignment was shipped from, so a bar produced in Europe and consolidated in a Gulf warehouse appears under the warehouse, not the factory. We read the table that way on this page, and we say where we are reading rather than inferring.

Distant hubs rather than a neighbour

Nothing on this shelf comes from next door. The chocolate column is led by the United Arab Emirates at 23.5 per cent, France at 23.0 per cent and South Africa at 15.5 per cent; the confectionery column by the United Arab Emirates at 33.0 per cent, South Africa at 18.0 per cent and Malaysia at 8.3 per cent. Two of those six entries are the same re-consolidating hub, and the rest sit on separate continents. This is a working shelf and a well-served one, so a pitch that opens with a gap is wrong here before it starts. What is genuinely open is the length of the chain. A container loaded at our factory in Gaziantep and shipped on your own order removes at least one warehouse, one re-invoice and one waiting period from the path the goods take now, and it puts the price per line, the case weight and the lead time in front of you instead of inside somebody else's margin.

A small shelf, and how one container is built for it

The two columns above describe a market that is modest in absolute terms, and that changes how a first box should be put together. Depth on one line is the wrong instinct here; breadth is the right one. The unit of sale is one full container, and it can be mixed across as many lines as you like — tablets, wrapped bars, dragées in cartons and doypacks, boxed Turkish delight, jelly and wrapped confectionery, spreads in jars — so that a single arrival populates a whole section rather than stacking one item to the ceiling. Own-label lines and lines in our standard packs can travel in the same box, which is how most first orders here are worth doing at all. Minimums are set per line and written into the offer; we do not publish a single figure on this page, because a number that is wrong for your line is worse than no number.

Island routing, transhipment and the temperature question

Delivery terms quoted are FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP. Our factory sits in Gaziantep and Mersin port is about three hours away by road, so consolidation and loading fall inside a short window; the sea leg is the long part. An island destination is usually reached through a transhipment port rather than a direct service, and that is a scheduling fact rather than a problem — but it belongs in the offer, so the routing, the port of entry, the delivery term and the expected transit are named and your forwarder confirms the schedule that applies on the day. Temperature is the other half of it. This route runs through the tropics for its whole length, so the reefer question is not seasonal here the way it is on a northern lane: chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer, Turkish delight, dragées, jellies and wrapped confectionery travel dry, both can share one container, and the offer states which lines are reefer lines rather than leaving it to be discovered on arrival.

Label, in English — and French where the shelf wants it

English carries the mandatory information: 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. A large share of what already sits on this shelf arrives from a French-speaking origin, so French alongside is a normal request here and we prepare it when you want 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 against it 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. In the European Union such a coating may not be labelled as chocolate at all, and we keep the two words apart on every route for the same reason — a buyer who finds out at the shelf finds out too late.

The customs file, and what the importer holds

The origin document and the rules that apply are named in the offer in the form valid on the day, rather than guessed at on this page. Duty treatment and preference arrangements change, and a figure printed here would be out of date before it was useful; your clearing agent is the one who confirms it for the consignment in front of them. From our side you receive the technical data sheet per product, our certificates, the analysis report per line. Certificates — food safety, halal and kosher where they exist — are issued for our factory, and we name the holder and the certifying body per line. The import registration and the entry of the consignment stay with the importer.

What the search measured, and where it pointed instead

Two rounds of English measurement on real Seychelles geography, plus a free autocomplete pass: 864 raw phrases, 14 of them above a twenty-a-month threshold, about 1,380 searches a month between them, and 10 seeds returning 100 suggestions. The interesting part is not the total but the direction. There is an import-search habit in this market, and it is pointed at other food categories: a spice import phrase at 90 a month, olive importers at 20, an onion import phrase at 20. A general food and beverage importer phrase runs at 90. Confectionery is simply not what gets typed here, which is consistent with a shelf that is restocked by established supply lines rather than shopped for online. We print this because it decides what the page is for: not to win a keyword, but to answer the questions a buyer asks once they are already talking to us.

Shelf words the search named, and what they actually are

“Dubai chocolate” and its short form “dubai choc” are the two largest product phrases we measured, at 50 a month each. That is a shelf word for a format — a thick filled bar with a pistachio filling — rather than an item that can be pulled off a list, so we treat it as a specification question. Tell us the filling, the bar weight and whether you want a wrapper or a box, and we confirm which Gaziantep line comes closest, what pistachio content we declare on the technical data sheet, and whether the coating is chocolate or compound, before we quote. Two more phrases at 20 a month each are pastry-counter words rather than confectionery lines: a filled pastry name and an item that can mean either a chocolate-filled toffee sold by the piece or a baked pastry from a chilled counter. Neither is part of what we make. If you mean the toffee, say so and we confirm piece weight, wrap and case pack; if you mean the pastry, it is not ours and we will tell you that instead of sending something approximate.

Sourced on request

The core range is chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars. The search results show exactly where that line falls: baklava is typed here in three different spellings at 30 a month each, and tahini at 30, and none of them is part of our range. They are sourced on request instead, together with couverture, bulk chocolate by the kilo, raw nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, halva and empty packaging. On request means what it says: we confirm composition and format before quoting, and anything that cannot be confirmed stays out of the offer rather than being promised into it. What is confirmed loads in the same container as the rest.

Currency and payment

Offers in US dollars. Bank transfer only: a deposit with the order and the balance before the container leaves, against the loading photographs. The split, the banking route and the document set that applies are written into the offer and settled before production starts, rather than after the pallets are wrapped.