Wholesale Greek Other Candy

Greek confectionery leans on sesame and honey, with nuts and a few old sugar sweets alongside. These 14 SKUs from Jannis and Fantis cover that ground. Jannis brings the sesame crunch bars and loukoum. Fantis brings the ouzo and fruit hard candies. Cases run 0.66 to 2 lb, in bars and bags, some bulk and some boxed.

Jannis sesame crunch bars: the anchor line

Jannis makes sesame crunch bars in several sizes. There’s a full 70g Sesame Crunch Bar and a compact 40g one. The 30g Sesame and Honey Soft Bar is chewy instead of crunchy. An Organic Bio 40g bar is in there too. Mini Almond Crunch Bars and Mini Sesame Crunch Bars come in 150g bags. They’re plain sesame and honey. Nothing fancy, and a Mediterranean food buyer will know them on sight.

We’d point retail buyers at the 150g Mini Sesame Crunch Bar bag first, mostly because it’s a whole unit at an easy price and it sits on a shelf or goes into a gift basket without any fuss. The single bars come in 40g and 70g, and those belong by the counter or the register.

Mini nut crunch bars

Then there are the Jannis Mini Hazelnut Crunch Bars, which taste a bit richer to us and a bit more European. Mini Mixed Nut Crunch Bars cover a few nut tastes in one SKU. Same 150g bags as the sesame ones.

Greek delight: loukoum

Jannis also does Almond Vanilla and Pistachio Vanilla loukoum, boxed. Loukoum is just what the Greeks call it. There’s no rose water in these, only vanilla and nuts, so if a customer pulls a face at floral candy, these are the ones to hand over. They’re boxed, which puts them on the gift shelf and not in pick-and-mix. For a store with a Greek or Mediterranean section, we’d expect a slow turn at a higher price.

Coconut sticks

Jannis Coconut Sticks (12-count) and Choco Coconut Sticks (12-count) are single-serve coconut pieces, a bit like a coconut macaroon pressed into a stick. The choco one adds chocolate. We don’t know of a close domestic match. They’d do well in specialty food stores and Mediterranean groceries, and in Greek gift sets.

Fantis traditional Greek candies

Fantis Greek Fruit Hard Candies Mix and Fantis Greek Ouzo Candies are traditional Greek hard candies, imported in bulk. The ouzo ones taste of anise, like the Greek spirit. They’re specialized, and they have a following in Greek-American communities and in stores with an Aegean section. The fruit mix is a plain Greek-style fruit candy for accounts that want a Greek hard candy next to the ouzo ones.

Who orders Greek other candy wholesale

• Greek and Mediterranean food importers will want the Jannis crunch bars and the loukoum as core stock. Fantis ouzo candies fit that buyer too.
• Gift-basket programs can build a Greek set from boxed loukoum and crunch bars. Coconut sticks fit alongside.
• Natural food stores can take the sesame and honey crunch bars, especially the organic Jannis Bio bar.
• Greek-American delis and community shops already know the Fantis ouzo candies and the loukoum.

The broader market for Greek specialty confections

Greek specialty sweets reach a bigger audience than you’d guess. The Greek-American community is one of the larger European diaspora groups in the US, and Greek food stores and delis run steady all year. Jannis crunch bars and coconut sticks are things many of those customers know from childhood. So are the Fantis ouzo candies. They ask for them by name instead of taking a domestic stand-in.

Specialty food and gourmet grocery stores are the other route. Jannis sesame crunch bars sit well next to other snack items. The Organic Sesame Crunch Bar Bio and the sesame-honey soft bar suit natural food shelves. You can stock them twice, in the Greek section and in snacks, which gives one SKU two chances.

Gift applications

A ‘Flavors of Greece’ basket is easy to picture. We’d put Jannis crunch bars and boxed loukoum in first. Coconut sticks and Fantis fruit candies go in around them, next to Greek olive oil and honey. The candy adds variety without adding much cost. For gift-basket companies serving Greek-American customers, a steady source of Greek sweets at wholesale prices matters.

Sesame crunch bars in health-snack retail context

The Jannis sesame crunch bars are the odd European candy that slides into the snack aisle without anyone fussing over it. Sesame seeds and honey, that’s what’s in them. If you carry sesame snaps already, this is the Greek take on that, from a country that’s been eating sesame for a long time. Put a few in candy and a few in natural snacks, and one shopper gets two chances to spot them.

Ordering

There’s no minimum order. Cases run 0.66 to 2 lb. Approved accounts get account pricing, and we ship within the US. The Greece candy catalog carries the rest of the Greek range, halva included. To look at other specialty sweets from several origins, try the wholesale other candy category. A mixed order can start at bulk candy by the case.

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