Private label chocolate and confectionery from Türkiye, for Dominican brands, chains and hotel groups

Five formats, one container.

What to know before the first list.

Label

A Spanish label to the Dominican labelling standard: the name of the food, the ingredient list with allergens, metric net weight, storage conditions, the lot, the production and expiry dates and the name and address of the importer. For lines in our standard packs we confirm what the export pack already carries; for private label we prepare the label content and check your artwork against it before anything is printed. A vegetable-fat coating is not named chocolate on the label, and the offer states chocolate or compound line by line.

Entry and sanitary registration

Processed food is registered with the health authority before it goes on sale, and that registration, like the import file, is held by the Dominican importer and not by us. Per line we supply the technical data sheet, the ingredient and allergen list, the analysis report and the export documents the clearance at Caucedo or Haina asks for.

Customs

There is no free trade agreement between Türkiye and the Dominican Republic, so the ordinary import duty applies rather than a preference; the offer states the tariff line and the duty that applies on the day, per line, so the landed cost is known before you order. Duty and the internal taxes are settled by the importer at clearance.

Certificates

Halal, food-safety and management-system certificates are held for our factory; copies are available on request. We do not put a mark on an offer that we cannot document.

Minimums

Set per line and stated in the offer. The unit of sale is one full container, panelled, so an own-brand line travels in the same box as other lines and a first order is not limited to one product. What your line has to reach is its own minimum, not the volume of a whole container.

Lead time

Stated per line in the offer and counted from the deposit and the written artwork approval, not from the first enquiry. Add the sea leg, the transshipment and the clearance on top of it. A Christmas basket and a hotel season that starts in December are planned backwards from the date you want the cartons in the warehouse.

Certificates

Held for our factory in Gaziantep: the food-safety certification the plant is audited to, halal or kosher on the lines that carry it, the technical data sheet and the analysis report. The holder is named per line and copies are available on request. We publish no certificate numbers on this site and put nothing on an offer that we do not hold.

Currency and payment

Offers in US dollars, FCA Gaziantep, FOB Mersin, CIF or DAP; bank transfer, 50% with the order and 50% before the container leaves, against the loading photographs. There is no trade preference between Türkiye and the Dominican Republic, so the ordinary duty applies: the offer states the tariff line and the duty that applies on the day, per line, and duty and the internal taxes are settled by the importer at clearance. The shelf prices in pesos, the cost is built in dollars, and both are known before the artwork goes to print.

Sanitary registration and your name

Processed food is sold here against a registration held by the Dominican importer and granted on the product, so on an own-brand line the file is opened in your name and the label carries you as the responsible party. From our side we supply what the file asks for: the technical data sheet, the ingredient and allergen breakdown, the shelf-life statement, the analysis report per line and, where it is required, a free sale certificate.

The other route

A co-packer on the island is the obvious route, and for a wrapped sweet or a biscuit it is often the right one; a Dominican bean-to-bar brand is a route of its own and a good one. Compare us with either on two counts rather than on price alone: what the line can actually source in the month you need it, and how many different product groups one order can carry under one brand. Ours is production at origin — the pistachio, the kadayıf and the lokum are made where we load, not brought in to be made — and one panelled container.

The resort shelf and the colmado shelf

Two very different buyers order the same brand here. The all-inclusive hotels of Punta Cana, Bávaro, Bayahíbe, Puerto Plata and Samaná, the hotel shops, the cruise terminals and the airport duty-free counters take the wrapped mini bar with the hotel's sleeve, the printed gift box and dragées in the hotel's colours for the destination wedding. The colmado, the cash-and-carry carton and the party shop take the sachet, the jelly bag and the compound-coated bar in a case weight that keeps the unit at a coin. Say which shelf a line is for and the format, the weight and the case are chosen for it before the artwork is drawn.