Menozzi De Rosa Black Candy Wholesale & Bulk

Menozzi De Rosa black licorice, authentic Italian, wholesale by the case

It’s all Menozzi De Rosa, and we like that. Licorice buyers tend to care where the stuff comes from, and a shelf built from one Italian maker looks like a plan instead of a pile of leftovers. Made in Italy, sold by the case, shipped to US shops.

Start with the pure end. There’s Pure Hard Licorice Spazzatina and Pure Licorice Sticks in cellophane. Then Pure Hard Licorice Juice Cuttings, the wrapped Pure Licorice Juice Sticks and an odd one, the Pure Licorice Juice Powder Jar. The chewy and firm side has Tortiglioni Chewy Black Licorice Sticks and Tubeti Chewy Black Licorice Tubes. Add Fusilli Firm Black Licorice and Penne Firm Black Licorice. Yes, they’re named after pasta, which gives you something to say at the shelf. Want the whole licorice range, not only the black? Head over to Menozzi De Rosa licorice.

From hard cuttings to novelty shapes

Then there are the oddballs. The Black Licorice Straws 20cm look great standing in a jar. Menthol Licorice Pellets Nipit are for people who want a cool, minty finish. Flauti Black Licorice Pasta keeps the pasta theme going. The Licorice Toffee Tofferelle is half licorice and half toffee, which makes it the pick for anyone a bit nervous about the real thing. A specialty shelf wouldn’t go stale with this lot. If you’re mixing in other makers, the black licorice wholesale page has the full category.

A bit of white and brown sneaks in too. Black and White Licorice Penguins and Black Licorice Fruit Rockies cover that. The Licorice Root 5pc 36g Box is for the person who actually likes chewing the root. Powder jar to root box is a strange amount of range for one brand.

Formats, colors and weights for planning

Three formats here, bulk and bagged and boxed. Scoop bins take the bulk. Bagged is shelf stock, and boxed pieces like the root box can double as small gifts. A single supplier ends up covering your bin and your shelf and a gift corner too. Units start around 0.31 lb for the small boxes and go up to 2.2 lb in bulk bags, so both can ride in one order.

The palette is tight: black and brown and white. A licorice range has no business with bright dyes. Penguins and a few rockies bring in the white and brown. For a black-licorice wall, sticking to that narrow palette is what makes it work.

Who this Menozzi De Rosa range fits

• Licorice specialists after real depth in pure Italian licorice.
• Italian import grocers who want Tortiglioni and Fusilli and Penne on the shelf.
• Scoop shops topping up bins with hard cuttings and juice sticks.
• Gift and specialty stores that’d use the boxed root and the 20cm straws.

With one brand the customers wander through. Say a shopper picks up hard Spazzatina and next thing the juice cuttings and powder jar are in the basket. The penguins might lead someone to the straws or the pasta shapes later. A stocked cluster makes for bigger baskets.

How to merchandise authentic Italian licorice

We’d arrange the shelf by strength more than by shape. Strong stuff first, meaning Spazzatina and the Juice Cuttings. Tortiglioni and Tubeti are the everyday chew in the middle. Gentle ones go at the end where a first-timer will look, Tofferelle and the Penguins. Most newcomers start mild and move up, so that order walks them along.

The pasta names help you out. Tortiglioni, Fusilli and Penne already sound Italian, so a shelf talker practically writes itself. Group them and the section looks planned, not like a random licorice bin. That’s what lets you charge a bit more.

Specialty formats and gift use

Boxed items do well by the till. The Licorice Root 5pc 36g Box works as a small gift or an impulse grab. The Pure Licorice Juice Powder Jar gets people talking, mostly licorice fans. And the Black Licorice Straws 20cm give a counter jar some height. You won’t spot those formats in a regular candy aisle.

Not much fuss to handle any of it. Hard and chewy and firm pieces all sit happily somewhere cool and dry, and the boxed and bagged ones go straight on the shelf. Weights run from 0.31 lb boxes to 2.2 lb bulk bags, so a counter display and a scoop bin can come out of one order. There’s no minimum, so a first try costs little.

Ordering, terms and shipping

We sell retail and wholesale, to shops and distributors and specialty buyers alike. There’s no minimum order. Cases run about 5 to 10 kg and approved accounts get account pricing. Everything ships inside the US, and bulk and bagged and boxed packs all travel fine. For a bigger order, take a bulk candy base and add this licorice set on top.

New to Menozzi De Rosa? Take Spazzatina for the hard-licorice crowd and Tortiglioni for the chewy fans. Add the straws, which are mostly there because they look good. The linked licorice and black licorice pages cover the rest of the section. There’s no minimum, so one case of each is enough to find out what sells.

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