Brown Bagged Candy Wholesale & Bulk

If you’re putting together a specialty candy shelf with European and other imports, you don’t need a dozen different vendors. This collection pulls bagged and bar-format chocolate and sweets from Italy and the United States. Greece and Holland add the rest, and Israel and Germany do too. It all comes through one wholesale account. The range includes gianduia chocolate and nut-and-chocolate pieces. There are stroopwafels and coffee candy and sesame halva. There’s chocolate-covered fruit and a nut crunch bar. Cases weigh 0.66 lb to 2.48 lb, so the light ones suit a trial order and the heavier bags suit a shop that already moves volume.

Italy starts with Zaini. The Zaini Gianduiotto Dark Gianduia Chocolate Italian Bag is dark chocolate and hazelnut, the Piedmont combination. It’s sold in a bag you can put straight on a shelf. People who prefer dark to milk in their hazelnut chocolate will probably go for it. A deli or an Italian import corner could use it. It also works as one piece in a gift basket, and it gets you Italian chocolate without paying for a full boxed assortment.

Mangini has several. The Mangini Noccioletto Milk Chocolate Hazelnut bags come in 90g. Each piece is a whole hazelnut coated in milk chocolate. That’s a very Italian idea, and it does well in a specialty candy section. Then there’s the Mangini Milk Chocolate Toffee in 150g bags, and the Mangini Bye Coffee Mini Coffee Candy in 150g bags too. They add toffee and coffee to a display that could end up all chocolate. The Woogie Filled Coffee Candy Bag from Italy is another coffee one. It’s a hard candy with a coffee cream inside, for people who like European hard candy.

The USA is Sconza. The Sconza Milk Chocolate Cherries come in a 4.5oz bag as a 3-pack, and the Sconza Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Hazelnuts come the same way. A specialty grocery that wants something American beside its European imports can use them both. They photograph nicely, which helps if you list online. They work in a gift basket too. The sea salt hazelnuts hit that sweet and salty spot a lot of people like.

Greece is the Jannis Mini Hazelnut Crunch Bars Greek Confection. It fits with the other nut items and brings a Mediterranean sesame and nut tradition into something near chocolate. The little bars look good in mixed bag displays and in baskets where you want variety.

Holland sends Gerrit’s Bakery Stroopwafels Caramel Standup Bag. Stroopwafels are thin waffle cookies with caramel syrup in the middle, and lately plenty of Americans know what they are. A European import section can sell them to people who’ve already had one. The standup bag suits a snack shelf, and it goes well beside a tea or coffee display.

Israel gives us Achva Sesame Halva Mini Snack Bags in Vanilla and Cocoa. Pistachio is the third. Halva is a different tradition from everything else here. It’s sesame-based and fudgy with a rich nutty sweetness. As Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food gets more attention, delis and import grocers can add it without giving up much shelf space. Three flavors is enough for a small halva display with some choice.

Germany comes last with Only Cocoa-Dusted Marzipan Potatoes in a 100g bag. It’s the classic German sweet, marzipan shaped like a potato. The cocoa dusting keeps it in the brown family. Marzipan tastes like nothing else on this page, so for a curious shopper it’s the surprise.

Maybe you stock bulk candy and bagged candy side by side. This collection sits between the two. Everything here is bagged or bar format and not loose bulk. Still, the mix of origins goes well next to a bulk European display. The bags are what people take home, and the bulk is for tasting and impulse.

We’d organize these by theme and not by country. A chocolate-covered nuts and fruit group could hold the Sconza hazelnuts and cherries along with the Mangini noccioletto. That becomes a snack spot. A European caramel and toffee cluster can use Gerrit’s stroopwafels and Mangini toffee. Woogie coffee candy belongs there too. Then the oddballs, Achva halva and Zaini gianduiotto next to the Only marzipan potatoes and Jannis bars, can sit by the main display as discovery buys.

Gift baskets benefit from the mix. A world confectionery basket can hold Italian and Dutch items. Add Israeli and German ones, then Greek and American. That gives somebody an international tasting box. A single-origin range can’t do that. Bag sizes run from 90g to the 4.5oz 3-packs, so whoever assembles baskets can match weight and price across tiers.

Storage is the usual cool and dry. The chocolate items, meaning Sconza and the Mangini noccioletto plus the Zaini gianduiotto, should stay cool so the surface doesn’t go dull. Stroopwafels and coffee candy are tougher and put up with more. There’s no minimum order. Approved accounts get account pricing. We ship within the US.

Starting a multi-origin candy section from nothing? This is a practical way to do it, because every item brings something different. Zaini covers the premium Italian chocolate. Sconza is the American chocolate-covered snack. Mangini does Italian toffee and coffee. Gerrit’s has the Dutch stroopwafel, and Achva adds Middle Eastern halva. Only delivers the German marzipan, and Jannis represents Greek nut sweets. Take one case of each from four or five origins. You get an international display and you haven’t leaned too hard on any single country.

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