Brown Chocolate with Almond in Bulk

Chocolate-covered almonds have been around forever, and they sell in natural food stores as easily as at a regular candy counter. This brown group has 13 SKUs from the USA and Greece and Sweden. Sconza and Narr carry most of it. There’s a gluten-free label on part of the range, which matters to some shoppers. Everything is bulk and weighs between 0.99 lb and 2 lb, so you can try a few varieties without piling up stock.

For chocolate with almond wholesale we’d start with Sconza, an American maker with four items here. The Dark Chocolate Almonds are the plain one, a whole California almond inside a dark cocoa shell. Then there’s the Milk Chocolate Cocoa Dusted Almonds, which are softer and matte instead of glossy. The Aranciata Orange Chocolate Almonds put citrus in the coating and that sits nicely on an Italian or Mediterranean shelf. Mocha Dusted Almonds taste of coffee. Coffee shops tend to like those and so do natural food stores.

Then there’s the Sconza Chocolate Bridge Mix, which is the variety bag. Almonds sit in it among a few other chocolate pieces. People browse bulk bins by eye so mixed colors and textures pull them over. Candy stores and food halls have run bridge mix for years and a mixed bag helps when a shopper can’t make up their mind.

Limoncello Chocolate Almonds sit next to the Sconza line too. It’s lemon liqueur flavor with chocolate around an almond. An Italian-American idea if you ask us. Try a bin of it beside the Aranciata and let people argue about which citrus wins. Italian grocers will like it, and so will any shop with a Mediterranean angle. In an Italian-themed gift basket it’d go beside whatever other Italian sweets you carry.

Narr from Sweden does it another way. Its Chocolate Almonds Mix is a bulk blend of whole almonds in several chocolate and sugar coatings, the way Swedish candy shops (godisaffarer) have been doing it for ages. It looks great in a scoop bin. The Tiramisu Chocolate Almonds go dessert-style, coffee and mascarpone. People who like dessert flavors and nuts both usually reach for those.

The Greek item steps outside chocolate. Organic Honey Halva with Almonds comes as 75g single units and there are 8-packs and 10-packs too. Halva is the sesame sweet at the center of Greek and Eastern Mediterranean food, and this one’s labeled organic and gluten-free. Natural food stores take it and so do grocers with a Mediterranean import shelf. Greek or Middle Eastern gift sets can use it. If you’d like a multipack ready for the shelf, the 8-pack and 10-pack save you pricing single units.

Some of the range is labeled gluten-free, which helps a little. A c-store with a free-from snack section can use that. A natural food distributor whose accounts ask for GF labeling can too, and so can a basket maker with a gluten-avoiding customer.

The brown candy here covers a fair spread. Mocha almonds go dark espresso. Milk chocolate coatings look warm amber. The halva is off-white. A counter or bin shelf with mixed finishes gets people looking and picking up more. Put the halva and the Narr mix on the same shelf and the contrast does the work.

Different shops will want different pieces. Natural and specialty food retailers can lean on the gluten-free labels and the organic halva. Import delis and Mediterranean groceries should look at the Greek halva and the Italian-flavored Sconza items. Narr’s mixes are for bulk candy stores and food halls. Gift-basket makers can build a Greek set or an Italian-American one, or a nut-and-chocolate basket at a higher price. It all comes from one seller, so ordering stays easy.

Cases of 0.99 lb to 2 lb suit a shop that turns specialty nuts every month or every few months. Approved wholesale accounts get account pricing. There’s no minimum, so you can add one almond flavor at a time and see what sells. A single case of something is plenty to start. Our bulk candy catalog has more nut confections for the section.

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