Private label chocolate and confectionery from Türkiye, for Guatemalan brands
Tablets and bars, dragées in doypacks and pyramid boxes, sachets and flowpacks, 350 g lokum boxes and pistachio spread jars, made in Gaziantep under your own name. We prepare the Spanish label content to the Central American technical regulation for prepackaged food, from our technical data sheet. Nothing is printed until you approve the final artwork in writing.
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Made in Gaziantep, sold under your brand.
A Guatemalan retail group, an importer or a brand that wants a line of its own usually starts with what a co-packer nearby can run: a wrapped sweet, a biscuit, a bag of jellies. That route works until the buyer asks for something the co-packer cannot follow — a pistachio tablet from where the pistachio grows, sugared almonds in the colours of the basket, a boxed Turkish delight for December, pistachio spread in a jar, or the pistachio and kadayıf bar the shelf keeps asking for as chocolate de Dubai. We are the other route: a manufacturer and exporter in Gaziantep, Türkiye, putting our own lines under your name and shipping the container to Santo Tomás de Castilla, or to Puerto Quetzal when the Pacific side suits your warehouse better.
The difference is width in one shipment, and the origin behind it. A Guatemalan brand can put its name on a pistachio tablet, a Dubai style bar, dragées in its own colours, a 350 g lokum box and a pistachio spread jar at the same time, from our own factory, on one order and one set of documents — and none of those lines has to fill a container by itself, because the box is panelled and your own-brand lines travel alongside lines in our standard packs, each on its own pallet. The paperwork does not split either: the sanitary registration in Guatemala sits with the importer whichever brand is on the wrapper, so your line and the rest of the container go through the same file and the same warehouse. What is left is the question every buyer ends on — who makes it, and at what minimum. We make it in our own factory in Gaziantep; the minimum is set per line and stated in the offer.
Your label goes on lines produced in our own factory in Gaziantep.
Five formats, one container.
Nothing printed before you approve.
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Line and minimum
You name the lines from the product pages and the pack format you want them in. We confirm which of them can be made under your brand, whether the line is chocolate or compound coated, and the minimum, which is set per line and stated in the offer.
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Label content
We prepare the Spanish label content to the Central American technical regulation for the labelling of prepackaged food: the name of the food, the ingredient list with allergens declared, net content in metric units, lot, storage, expiry, country of origin, and the name and address of the importer in Guatemala. The data comes from our technical data sheet.
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Artwork approval
You place that content in your arte final. We check the layout back against our data sheet, line by line, and you approve it in writing. Before that written approval nothing is printed: no wrapper, no sleeve, no box, no label.
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Production and loading
We run the line, check the lot before packing, consolidate the pallets and photograph them. Your brand line is panelled into the same container as the rest of your order, each line on its own pallet, and the box leaves Mersin with the document set for the entry in Guatemala; chocolate and chocolate-coated lines are quoted in a reefer in the warm months, because the heat on this route is the crossing, the port and the road.
What to know before the first list.
- Label
- A Spanish label to the Central American technical regulation for the labelling of prepackaged food: the name of the food, the ingredient list with allergens declared, net content in metric units, lot, the storage instruction, the expiry date, the country of origin and the name and address of the importer in Guatemala. 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.
- Sanitary registration and entry
- Prepackaged food is sold in Guatemala against a sanitary registration held by the importer with the food regulation department of the health ministry, granted on the product, so the file is opened by the buyer and not by us. We supply what that file needs from its side: the technical data sheet, the ingredient breakdown, the shelf-life statement, the analysis report per line and, where the file asks for it, a free sale certificate.
- Customs
- Guatemala applies the Central American common external tariff and the container clears through the SAT customs administration; there is no free trade agreement in force between Türkiye and Guatemala. The offer states the tariff line and the duty that applies on the day, so the landed cost is known before you order.
- Certificates
- Our certificates, with copies on request: 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. We do not put a certificate on an offer that we do not hold, and we do not sell a certificate as a substitute for a sample.
- 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.
- Lead time
- Stated per line in the offer and counted from the deposit and the written artwork approval, not from the first enquiry. A December shelf is planned backwards from that date, with the sea leg and the transshipment added.
- 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 do not put a certificate 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. The offer states the tariff line and the duty that applies on the day, so the landed cost of your own line is known before the artwork goes to print.
- The other route
- A local or regional co-packer is the obvious route, and for a wrapped sweet or a biscuit it is often the right one. This route earns its place where the co-packer cannot follow: pistachio lines from where the pistachio grows, sugared almonds, Turkish delight and the Dubai style bar — several product groups under one brand, from our own factory, on one order and one set of documents.
- Sanitary registration and your name
- Prepackaged food is sold in Guatemala against a sanitary registration held by the 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 breakdown, the shelf-life statement, the analysis report per line and, where it is required, a free sale certificate.
- December, the basket and the coin shelf
- Two shelves buy the same brand. The supermarket in the capital takes the printed box, the tablet and the gift format, and December is when the basket is put together; the tienda, the abarrotería and the mayoreo carton 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.
Asked by brands first.
Are you the manufacturer?
Yes. Chocolate, dragées, pistachio and hazelnut creams, popping candy and Turkish delight are made in our own factory in Gaziantep, and we have exported since 2002. We run your private-label lines, check the lot before packing and load the container at our factory.
Can we launch our own brand without filling a container with a single product?
Yes. The unit of sale is one full container, panelled: your own-brand line travels with other lines from the same factory, each on its own pallet. What your line has to reach is its own minimum, set per line and stated in the offer, not the volume of a whole container.
Who writes the Spanish label, and when is it printed?
We prepare the content from our technical data sheet to the Central American technical regulation for prepackaged food; you place it in your arte final and add your details as importer; we check that layout back against the data sheet; you approve it in writing. Nothing is printed before that written approval.
Who holds the sanitary registration for an own-brand line?
The importer in Guatemala holds it, and it is granted on the product, so on your own brand the file is opened in your name and the label shows you as the responsible party. We supply our documents that file needs so the paperwork and the pallet match.
Can we have the Dubai style pistachio bar under our own brand?
On selected lines, yes: it is made in Gaziantep, where the pistachio grows and the kadayıf is made, in retail and gift formats. We confirm the recipe, the pistachio content and the format under your name, and whether the coating is chocolate or a compound coating is written per line on the offer. A compound coating is never called chocolate on a document that leaves this office.
Can you run couverture in bulk with our name on the box?
Bulk couverture by the kilo sits outside our core range, as do cocoa, raw nuts, dried fruit and empty packaging: they are sourced on request, and we confirm composition and format before quoting. If a repostería line matters to you, ask for it by name and the answer will be what we can actually run, not a yes on a website.
Are samples free before we commit to a print run?
Samples from our running production are free of charge; you cover the courier, paid before dispatch. A sample in your own wrapper is itself a print run, so it comes after the written artwork approval, never before it.
Are you a private label chocolate manufacturer?
Yes. Your label is printed in our own factory in Gaziantep after you approve the artwork, and the minimum per line is stated in the offer. Prices are not published; they come in the written offer.
Importing into Guatemala: what stays the same on every offer →
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 →