Sperlari Wholesale: Italian Mints & Hard Candy

Sperlari is an Italian hard-candy and mint brand, and we carry 22 products from it in our US catalog. You get mints and hard candy. There’s one licorice-filled piece, an assortment of fruit gellies and a toffee or two. It’s the sort of after-dinner and pocket candy a deli or specialty grocer likes having on the shelf. Easy to recognize. Easy to sell.

Mints and Hard Candy Up Front

Mints anchor the range. You’ve got the classic Sperlari mint hard candy and the Polaris mint. The Polaris Glaciar mint is there too, along with the Club Classic menthol-and-eucalyptus piece. That’s four ways into the breath-freshening shelf. Around them sit anise hard candy and the Gran Misto assorted hard candy. Then there’s the licorice-filled Lyzia and an orange-and-lemon item. The Ultra Caramelle premium assortment and a fruit-gellies assortment finish it off. By type we have mints and hard candy and licorice. Toffee-caramel and other-candy are in there as well. Colors run green and assorted and black. Orange and yellow and brown show up too.

Bulk and Bag, Same Flavors Two Ways

Sperlari comes in bag and in bulk. The mint and Polaris items show up as bulk bins and as pre-bagged units, the 7.05oz and 17.64oz bags. So one flavor can serve the scoop-bin shopper and the grab-and-go shopper. Nobody has to pick. Here’s one way we’d set it up.

• Bulk bins for the mint and Polaris and anise and Gran Misto assorted, for people who pay by weight.
• Pre-bagged units come in 7.05oz and 17.64oz sizes, and they’re what we’d hang near the register. Mint and anise are there, plus menthol-eucalyptus and orange-and-lemon.
• Specialty pieces are the Lyzia licorice-filled and the Ultra Caramelle premium assortment. Those are the step-up items.

Pack Weights and Piece Counts

Pack weights go from about 1.54 lb to 3.53 lb. Bagged items are sold by piece count. The 7.05oz bags come in 5 and 8-piece packs and the 17.64oz in 2-piece. So order bagged items by how many facings you want, and bulk by weight. One flavor can carry different counts, which helps you scale a bag to your traffic. Check exact counts on each product page.

Allergens and Distribution

The reported allergens are milk and eggs and tree nuts. That’s short for a hard-candy line. Toffee and any cream-filled pieces are the likeliest to carry milk and eggs. Plain mints and anise are simpler, but read each product page before you commit to a bin. No diet attributes are flagged, and we make no kosher claim. Sperlari ships within the US, with USD pricing shown.

The Mints as a Steady Core

Mints sell all year. They aren’t tied to a season. That’s why we’d keep them in steady replenishment, bulk and bag both. Sperlari gives you several to choose from. The classic mint and Polaris and Polaris Glaciar cover gentle after-dinner to stronger menthol. Club Classic leans menthol-and-eucalyptus. Anise hard candy does the same after-dinner job for shoppers who like anise more than mint. Rotate the fruit and premium pieces around that base.

Running One Flavor in Two Formats

Dual-format selling gets the most out of this line. The mint and Polaris items come as bulk bins and as bagged 7.05oz and 17.64oz units. One flavor then catches two shoppers. One wants to pick their own quantity at the bin. The other wants a sealed bag off the shelf or at the register. Piece counts vary, with 5 and 8-piece packs in the 7.05oz and 2-piece in the 17.64oz, so you can scale a bag without changing the product. Our pick is bulk for the core mints, with bagged versions of the same flavors on a nearby shelf. A few more can sit by the register. That way people find Sperlari however they happen to be shopping.

Rounding Out with Specialty and Fruit

Above the mints sit the specialty and fruit pieces. Lyzia, the licorice-filled hard candy, is for the shopper who’s half curious about licorice. Gran Misto assorted and Ultra Caramelle are the mixed bags. Gran Gelees fruit jelly and the orange-and-lemon item bring brighter flavor. Rotate them to demand. Lean on the premium assortment and you’ve got a bigger-looking shelf. Signage stays easy because the allergens are only milk and eggs and tree nuts. We’d still check the toffee and cream-filled items on their pages.

Cross-Merchandising the Mints

Mints work outside the candy bin too. Polaris and Polaris Glaciar and Club Classic suit a checkout spot where someone grabs a refreshment on the way out. They fit an after-dinner or coffee shelf as well, for the customer who wants a mint with espresso. Anise does the same job for anise fans. Bagged mints by the register catch the impulse grab, while the bulk ones in the bin section are for people who came to browse.

Online Listings and Reorders

Online, name the items clearly. Polaris and Polaris Glaciar first. Club Classic and Lyzia next. Gran Misto and Ultra Caramelle too. Run two reorder streams. Bulk mints and assortments turn over by pounds per bin. Bags work differently, since the 7.05oz and 17.64oz ones reorder by piece count. We’d track them on their own line. Same flavor, both formats. Keep the mint core steady and rotate the fruit gellies and Lyzia and Ultra Caramelle to demand. The 1.54 lb to 3.53 lb weight band reflects bag sizes against bulk bins, so estimate freight from the mix you actually order.