Jannis Greece Candy Wholesale & Bulk

Jannis Greece Candy Wholesale & Bulk

Most candy shelves here are chocolate and gummies, and Greek sweets don’t taste like either. They run on nuts and sesame, and on honey and nougat. Jannis is one of the better-known makers. We’ve got all 17 of its SKUs, in bars and bags and boxes and bulk. No minimum order for US buyers.

Jannis and the Greek Confectionery Tradition

Think about who’d actually want this. Greek-American families come first. Mediterranean food fans too, and a specialty import shop might. Jannis keeps the product consistent, which is nice when you’re reordering. Not many domestic suppliers carry anything like it. The base is nuts and sesame seeds with some chewy honey pieces, all old Mediterranean staples.

Every one of the 17 SKUs weighs between 0.66 and 1.23 lb per unit. Gift boxes suit specialty food shops, and bags are for self-serve. Bars go by the register or in a snack section. Bulk can sit in a gravity bin or get weighed out. Jannis doesn’t have to live in one spot, since one brand can end up in two or three places in a store.

Greek Delight: The Lokum Tradition in Boxed Format

You might know lokum as Turkish delight. The Greek take is a gel of starch and sugar with nuts or flavoring worked in, and it’s been a gift sweet in eastern Mediterranean households for a long time. Jannis sells two boxed versions, both Greek. One is the Jannis Almond Vanilla box. The other is the Jannis Pistachio Vanilla box.

The boxes already look like gifts. Open the almond one and there are whole almonds running through a vanilla-scented base. Pistachio has chopped nuts instead, so you get a stronger flavor and a slightly greener color. Pistachio’s been a fancy-sweets thing for a few years now, and it photographs nicely. Greek stores and specialty food shops are the obvious homes. Middle Eastern grocers keep lokum by the baklava anyway so these slot right in.

Nut Crunch Bars: The Heart of the Jannis Range

Start with the nut crunch bars, which are the biggest part of the Jannis line. Roasted nuts get bound with caramelized sugar or honey, and the bar snaps when you bite it. Very nutty and not that sweet, which people tend to read as real food. They travel and keep.

The Jannis Mini Hazelnut Crunch Bars Greek Confection and the Jannis Mini Mixed Nut Crunch Bars Greek Confection are both minis, about right for a register or a sample tray. Gift assortments use them as filler. Pick the mixed nut one if your customers can’t decide, since nobody has to commit to a single nut.

The Jannis Mini Almond Crunch Bars 150g Bag Greece is the same thing in a 150g take-home bag. Grocery snack aisles and gift shop shelves like that middle size, bigger than a single bar and a lot less than a gift box. Almond’s the nut everybody knows, so a grocery buyer who’d skip something odder might go for it.

Sesame Bars: A Category With Growing Demand

Tahini and halva have gotten familiar to more shoppers lately, and sesame candy rides along with that. Jannis has it in crunchy bars and in soft chews.

The Jannis Sesame Crunch Bar 70g Greece and the Jannis Mini Sesame Crunch Bars 150g Bag Greece are the main ones. Both are small and crunchy, made from the caramelized-sesame recipe Greeks have used for generations. There’s also the Jannis Organic Sesame Crunch Bar Bio 40g Greece, which is organic, so natural food shops and premium grocery will care about it. It’s a single-serve 40g bar, handy at a checkout or in a snack display.

Where sesame meets chocolate is the Jannis Sesame and Dark Chocolate Crunch Bar 30g Greece, and parked beside other chocolate it gets more people to try sesame. The Jannis Sesame and Honey Soft Bar 30g Greece is another thing altogether, held together with honey and eating like nougat or a dense granola bar. We’d say it’s for people who like chew more than snap.

Coconut Sticks: An Underrepresented Category

Coconut candy is thin on the ground in most US wholesale catalogs, so these stand out a little. The Jannis Coconut Sticks Greek Candy 12-Count are long coconut bars. They’re sweet and dense and the packs suit a jar or a bin. The Jannis Choco Coconut Sticks Greek Candy 12-Count wears a chocolate coating over the same base. Shelve it as coconut or as a chocolate-dipped snack. Island-themed gift shops are a fit. Caribbean food sections as well. Coconut fans will pick them up without much promotion.

Soft Nougat Bars: Flavor Variety and Nut Inclusion

Soft nougat from Jannis has a tender chewy base with nuts or fruit flavors worked in. Think caramel-nougat hybrid rather than firm Montélimar. The Jannis Almond Soft Nougat Bar 50g Greece is the one to know, with sliced almonds in a pale soft nougat.

Three 60g bars stretch the flavors. The Jannis Cranberry and Almond Soft Nougat Bar 60g Greece pairs dried cranberry with almond, a combo that suits snack and gift shops. Fruitier is the Jannis Strawberry and Almond Soft Nougat Bar 60g Greece. The richest is the Jannis Caramel and Hazelnut Soft Nougat Bar 60g Greece, and it goes up against chocolate-hazelnut bars at about the same price.

Ordering Jannis Candy at Wholesale

There are 17 SKUs across four formats, at 0.66 to 1.23 lb each, which is enough to build a real Greek candy program. There’s no minimum order and a case comes to around 5 to 10 kg. Specialty shops can start small. Mediterranean food stores and gift shops can too. Approved wholesale accounts get account pricing. We ship within the US.

Jannis is the fullest single-brand Greek range we carry. If you’d like to go past Greece, our bulk candy collection has Mediterranean candy from Italy and Turkey. A few other European origins are in there too.

Frequently Asked Questions