Private label chocolate and confectionery from Gaziantep, under a Seychellois brand

Five formats, one container.

What to know before the first list.

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 Duty treatment and preference arrangements change, and a figure printed here would be out of date before it was useful; your clearing agent is the one who confirms it for the consignment in front of them.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.

Minimums

Set per line and stated in the offer, because they differ between a printed tablet, a dragée colour and a boxed Turkish delight. The unit of sale is one full container, which can mix your own-label lines with lines in our standard packs, so a first run does not have to fill the box on its own — a useful thing on a shelf this size.

Certificates

Held for our factory in Gaziantep: food-safety (FSSC 22000, ISO 22000, HACCP), halal and kosher certificates. The holder and the certifying body are named per line and copies are available on request. We do not describe a certificate we do not hold.

Samples

Free of charge from our running production; you cover the courier, paid before dispatch. Samples come off the running line, so what you taste is what the run makes.

Lead time

Stated per line in the offer and counted from the deposit and the approved artwork, not from the first enquiry. Printed packaging is usually what sets the pace, which is why the artwork step is settled before production is booked, and on a route that reaches you through a transhipment port the sailing schedule is worth fixing at the same time.

What the label may not say

A vegetable-fat coating is a compound or a glaze and is labelled as one. We will not print chocolate on a pack that is not, whatever the brief says, and the price list keeps the two apart for the same reason. In the European Union such a coating may not be sold as chocolate at all, and we hold the same line on every route. It is the one point on which we will stop an artwork approval.

Brand and artwork

Your brand and your artwork stay yours. We run what you approved and the packaging is printed for your order; we do not offer your artwork or your recipe brief to another buyer.

Currency and payment

Offers in US dollars. Bank transfer: a deposit with the order and the balance before the container leaves, against the loading photographs. The split and the banking route that applies are written into the offer and agreed before production starts.