Bulk Fruit Hard Candy (Bagged)

Bagged Fruit Hard Candy: Italian Mangini and Serra Imports for Wholesale

Bulk bins are one way to sell Italian hard candy, but these are finished bags that go straight onto a shelf or a peg hook with no weighing or repacking. There are nine SKUs, all from Mangini and Serra, starting at single 150g bags and climbing to 5-bag and 8-bag multipacks with a 10-bag one on top. They all run through the bagged candy wholesale program. Got no room for a bulk bin section and still want Italian fruit hard candy? This is where we’d start.

Mangini runs most of the page, which fits how big it is in Italian hard candy generally. Its main retail-ready lines are Bye Frutta and Effervescenti. Mangini Bye Frutta Mini Fruit Candy comes as single 150g bags and as 8-bag multipacks, so from one product family you can sell a bag at the register and a multipack on the shelf. Single bags suit a register display or a cafe counter. An 8-pack fills a shelf facing or goes in a gift basket.

Mangini Effervescenti: The Fizzy Fruit-Filled Multipack

Effervescenti is the odd one, and our favorite of the group. The fruit-filled candies fizz a little when you bite through. Domestic hard candy doesn’t do that, and first-time customers tend to mention it. It comes in three multipacks. There’s a 5-bag and an 8-bag, and the 10-bag is the biggest. A countertop wire rack might take the 5-bag, while a floor display or club-store program would want the 10-bag. The 8-bag works on its own as an Italian candy present, no basket to assemble.

Mangini Bye Frizzante Fruit Candy puts fizz into the mini fruit format and sits in the same flavor family as Bye Frutta. Stock the two side by side and shoppers will want to taste the difference, so they end up trying both. Lemon’s a safe bet for customers who’d rather skip the fruit mix, and the Mangini Bye Lemon Mini Lemon Candy Bag is single-flavor citrus.

Serra Sicilian Blood Orange IGP Filled Candy

Serra Filled Candy with Sicilian Blood Orange IGP is the fancy one here, and the best story on the page. IGP is a European protected-origin label, and on this candy it points the blood orange flavoring at a Sicilian region. Specialty grocers and Italian import shops can say that with a straight face, and so can gift programs that sell on origin. Serra makes traditional filled hard candy in Italy, and this piece shows its regional side. Set it next to Tuscan olive oil or Amalfi lemon products and it won’t look like a novelty.

Buyer Channels and Merchandising

A gift shop with no bulk bins can hang four or five Mangini bag SKUs on a peg hook or counter rack, and the packaging’s colorful enough to do the merchandising. Cafes and restaurants put single 150g bags by the register as a cheap impulse item. Basket makers use one bag as the Italian candy piece in a European basket, since it’s already retail-finished and photographs well. Foodservice people running an Italian event or dessert program buy the Effervescenti multipack as a guest favor. A c-store starting a European candy section can begin with a Mangini multipack, because one case fills a shelf facing and needs nothing done to it in the store.

An import grocer with an Italian food section probably needs two things. The Serra Blood Orange IGP covers the specialty end. For the everyday end, one Mangini multipack that people will buy again does the job.

Pack Format and Case Details

All nine ship as bagged candy by the case, from 1.1 lb for individual bags up to 3.31 lb for the 10-bag multipacks. Approved wholesale accounts get account pricing, and checkout is by secure card.

• Mangini Effervescenti 10-Bag Pack (Italy) is the biggest of the fizzy fruit-filled multipacks, and floor displays and club programs are where we’d use it.
• Mangini Effervescenti 5-Bag Pack (Italy), same candy in a smaller pack that sits fine on a countertop.
• Mangini Frutta Fruit Jam Filled Candy 150g Retail Bags (Italy) are jam-center hard candy in single bags. Register stuff.
• Mangini Bye Frutta Mini Fruit Candy 8-Pack (Italy) has mixed-flavor minis in one multipack, which suits a gift basket.
• Mangini Bye Lemon Mini Lemon Candy Bag (Italy) is plain citrus with one flavor only. It fits a lemon-themed display.
• Serra Filled Candy with Sicilian Blood Orange IGP (Italy) is the one with the protected-origin story, and it sits at the premium specialty end.

Shelf Life and Storage Guidance

Hard candy in bags keeps well and handles humidity better than gummies or caramels, though we’d still stash cases somewhere cool and dry so the candy stays hard and the bags don’t go tacky. Mangini and Serra shelf life usually runs 12 to 18 months from production. Read each listing before a big seasonal buy. The fruit hard candy wholesale catalog covers bulk and bagged both. If you’re growing an Italian candy program next to chocolate and toffee, the full bulk candy assortment is the place to browse.

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