Chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight and confectionery from Gaziantep for importers and wholesalers in Togo

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 Togo declared for 2025

These are the country's own declared import figures, not a mirror read from what other countries say they shipped, which makes them firmer than the numbers we can publish for several markets in this region. Chocolate: 1,441,334 US dollars, France first at 44.0 per cent, India second at 33.5 per cent, Ghana third at 12.1 per cent, Türkiye seventh at 1.86 per cent. Sugar confectionery: 3,044,764 US dollars, China first at 60.7 per cent, India second at 21.5 per cent, Türkiye third at 4.72 per cent. By value this is a small market and we will not dress it up as a large one. What it is, is legible: one year, declared by the country itself, showing clearly which part of the shelf is spoken for and which part is not. One year is a snapshot rather than a trend, and shares of a column this size move with a handful of containers.

Already third in sweets, seventh in chocolate — two different conversations

In sugar confectionery Türkiye is third at 4.72 per cent: dragées, Turkish delight and wrapped sweets already have a route into this market and buyers who know the category, so the useful discussion there is format, case weight, reorder discipline and what is written into the offer. In chocolate, Türkiye is seventh at 1.86 per cent behind a European supplier at 44.0 per cent and a long-haul supplier at 33.5 per cent, and the first step is a named sample set placed beside what you already sell, quoted line by line, before anybody talks about volume. The sweets column in particular is price-led and ships from a long way off, which means long lanes, large lots and a reorder cycle set by somebody else's sailing schedule. We are not going to claim we beat that on price, because on a price-led line we may not. What a second source changes is the number of hands between the producer and your warehouse, the size of a workable order, and how much of the deal exists on paper — price per line, case weight, lead time, delivery term, payment schedule and document set, in one written offer. If all of that is already settled to your satisfaction, there is nothing here for you, and we would rather say so than write a page pretending otherwise.

Cocoa grows in this region; the finished bar does not

The third chocolate source in this column is an immediate neighbour in the cocoa belt, at 12.1 per cent, and the two larger sources are both far outside it. That is the honest shape of the market: the beans of this region travel out, and the wrapped bar travels back in from somewhere else. We are one of those somewhere-elses and we are not going to pretend to be anything more sophisticated than that. What we sell is finished product — moulded and wrapped chocolate, dragées, Turkish delight, wrapped confectionery and spreads in jars — made in our factory in Gaziantep. Cocoa, couverture and bulk chocolate by the kilo are not our range; they are sourced on request, with composition and format confirmed before we quote.

Label, in French

The mandatory information in French, with English alongside where your file or your 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 rule 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 chocolate at all, and we keep the same discipline wherever the container is going, because 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. No movement certificate issued for another trading route covers it, and the regional arrangements that apply in West Africa change often enough that printing one on a web page would be a disservice: the offer names the origin document and the rules in the form valid on the day it is issued, and your clearing agent confirms what applies. From our side you receive the technical data sheet per product, our certificates, the analysis report per line. Certificates are issued for our factory: we pass on copies and name the certifying body, and we do not describe a certificate we have not seen. Lines carrying ingredients of animal origin, gelatine in jellies above all, travel with our halal certificate. The registration and the entry itself sit with the importer.

Dragées, and the one word the French search produced

A whole round of French measurement on real local search returned 630 raw phrases and left exactly one above a twenty-a-month threshold: dragée, at 30 searches a month. That is a very small number and we present it as small. It is worth reading only because it matches something we actually make, which almost nothing else in this measurement does. Dragées are sugared almonds, hazelnuts and pistachios in a sugar or chocolate coating, and they sit at the centre of the occasion table here — weddings, births, naming days. Colour is a production run rather than a packing choice, so the minimum per colour is stated in the offer, and occasion lines are quoted ahead of the season with the lead time per line. A first order usually mixes them with everyday stock so that one container serves both.

What the English search shows, and what it does not

The six English phrases above the threshold are pastry vocabulary, most of it French words: eclairs at 50 searches a month, then baklava written three different ways at 30 and 30 and 30, pain au chocolat at 20 and profiteroles at 20 — about 180 searches a month in total, and none of it a buyer looking for a supplier. Two things follow. First, there is a bakery and pâtisserie trade here selling sweet goods over a counter, and that counter sells finished chocolate, dragées and boxed Turkish delight even when the pastry beside them is not ours. Second, baklava is outside our range whichever way it is spelled: it is sourced on request, with composition and format confirmed before we quote, and it is not offered as something we make.

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. The route, the point of entry, the delivery term and the transit are named in the offer, and your clearing agent confirms what applies on the day. On this lane heat matters more than distance: 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 share one container. If the last leg to your warehouse is not temperature-controlled, say so before we quote, because it changes which lines we would put in the box. If part of the consignment is not going to stop at your warehouse at all, tell us at the offer stage as well — the route, the transit and the document set are written differently when goods move on.

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, cocoa, raw nuts, dried fruit, halva, tahini, baklava and empty packaging. We confirm composition and format before quoting, and a line that cannot be confirmed stays out of the offer instead of going in with a question mark. Whatever is confirmed loads in the same container as the rest, on the same document set.

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, and it is settled in writing before production starts rather than after the pallets are wrapped.