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Funny thing about shelf life, the date on the case usually isn’t what decides it, the spot where the case ended up sitting is (picture one parked next to the loading door all August). Chocolate gets cranky with heat and with the temperature going up and down. Gummies and the chewy stuff mind humidity more,…

Margins on wholesale candy are all over the place depending on what kind of candy it is, and what most shop owners do is put a markup on top of what the case cost them and then nudge it up or down once they see how quickly the thing actually leaves the shelf. The little…

If we had to boil the job down for somebody signing a lease on a little candy shop this month, we’d say it’s mostly about having wholesale suppliers you can count on and knowing your case-pack numbers well enough that the price on the sticker leaves real profit behind it. The third piece is quieter…

Try explaining English toffee to somebody who’s only ever had caramel and you end up talking about heat, because that’s honestly the whole difference: it’s sugar and butter cooked up to a high temperature until it sets firm and snaps cleanly, usually with chocolate and chopped nuts on top, while caramel gets cooked lower and…

If you’ve had Turkish delight (lokum) you’ve had loukoumi already, since that’s just what Greeks and Cypriots call it. It’s a soft cube of starch and sugar with powdered sugar on it (some of it ends up on your shirt) and it usually tastes of rosewater or mastic. Sometimes it’s bergamot or citrus instead, and…

Turkish cotton candy (pişmaniye, if you want the proper name) is a fluffy and pretty delicate sweet you get by pulling a cooked sugar syrup together with toasted flour until it goes into fine silky threads. Nobody spins it on a machine the way Western cotton candy gets made. It isn’t pure sugar either, because…

A candy buffet (some people say candy bar, same thing) is a self-serve spread of candy in jars and bowls where guests scoop what they like into little bags. We’d start by picking a color palette and then mixing a few big statement pieces in with plenty of small fillers, figuring on roughly a quarter…

Folks use “bulk” and “wholesale” like they mean the same thing and I get why, but they don’t. Bulk is about how much you’re carrying out the door (a few cases of gummies, say) and wholesale is about who you are to the seller, which mostly means you get a trade price because you plan…

If you asked us how to get started as a candy distributor we’d say it mostly comes down to paperwork first (a registered business and a sales-tax or resale certificate so you can buy for resale) and then finding people to buy from, meaning importers or manufacturers, before you worry about where it all gets…

Stocking Polish candy mostly means the everyday sweets Poland actually eats. Krówki (soft fudge toffees) come first, then chocolate-covered plums and jellies. Filled and layered wafers belong there too, and so do milk and praline chocolate. Demand comes strongly from Polish expat communities, plus specialty shoppers hunting for Central European imports. Polish confectionery staples Krówki,…