Six hundred twenty-eight chocolate products, and every one of them comes from Europe or the US. Bars, sure. Gift-boxed pralines too. We also sell bulk bags by the pound. Case pack details sit on each product page, which saves you the guesswork when you’re sizing an order for your own bins and shelves.
What We Stock
Eight countries feed this category. Italy and Belgium, obviously. Germany and Switzerland follow. Greece and Spain fill in more of the map, and Poland and the USA finish it. Put them side by side and the flavor styles really don’t match, which is half the fun of browsing it.
You’ll see Maitre Truffout and Monardo most. Zaini and Crispo too. Mangini and Narr round it out, with Sconza and Albanese last. Belgian pralines in ribbon gift boxes. Aerated milk chocolate bars. Some truffles are made French-style. There are milk bars with hazelnut in them, and a handful of dark assortments. Smallest thing we ship is one bar. Biggest is a loose bulk bag, with gift boxes somewhere in between. Colors run brown and white. Gold and yellow show up. So does orange, along with mixed assortments.
- Bars and tablets come portioned one by one and ready for a shelf. Italian and Belgian makers supply them, and German ones as well.
- Pralines and truffles arrive gift-boxed. Mostly they end up in specialty shops, or on a holiday table near the door.
- Bulk bags are loose pieces you sell by weight. Pick-and-mix bins go through them quick.
- Box assortments come already mixed, so they sit fine in a gift corner.
Units run from about 0.44 lb to 2.2 lb. A counter jar takes the small ones. The big ones stack on an endcap.
Where It Comes From
Ask shop owners about Belgian and Swiss chocolate and they’ll bring up the fine cocoa and the tempering. Italy mostly means Zaini and Crispo to us. Think praline assortments and sugar-panned pieces. German bars taste clean and come in plenty of shapes. Greece and Spain bring regional specialties that your usual domestic distributor probably doesn’t carry.
Honestly, imported against domestic matters more in chocolate than anywhere else in candy. Domestic wins on price. Imported wins once someone actually tastes it. A shelf of only domestic bars looks like every other store in town. Add a row of Belgian pralines or Italian gianduja-style pieces. Now there’s something people can’t get down the street. The shops we see doing well carry both. Domestic moves volume. Imported pays better per piece. Start with Italian chocolate if you like, or use the origin filter on any category page.
Buying Notes From Our Side
Every year the holiday stuff sells out on us. Order seasonal pralines and gift boxes a season early. The shops that wait end up calling us in December, and by then we’re short.
Mix SKUs in your first order. Buying a full case of a single praline box is a gamble we wouldn’t take on a first order. Put a few bars in there with a couple of gift boxes and one bulk bag line. Your customers will make the next order obvious pretty fast. Bars and bulk bags we see reordered at about the same pace all year, while the gift stuff jumps in November and December and then hardly moves until spring. Restock the everyday lines when they run low and put the seasonal buys on the calendar early.
Display Ideas by Channel
Where it goes depends on who you sell to. Ribbon-tied boxes sell best around eye level in a store. Next to the register works too. The bulk bags mostly end up poured into pick-and-mix bins by the scoop. Hotels and restaurants buy wrapped single pieces for pillow dishes and the check folder. Nobody sees the box there. Event planners like the boxed truffles, and a lot of them split the boxes up into little favor bags. Gold foil and brown wrappers make a shelf look more expensive than it is. Assorted bright tones give a bin some life.
Storage and Handling
Heat is the main problem with chocolate. Store it somewhere cool and dry and away from windows, because when it gets warm and then cools again you’ll see a whitish bloom on top. It’s safe to eat. Customers still won’t buy it. If you’re in a warm part of the country, we’d store it somewhere climate-controlled and order a little lighter in peak summer so boxes spend less time on a hot truck. Sell the oldest stock first and the assortment stays fresh.
Diet and Allergen Notes
Among the 628 products you’ll find gluten-free and vegan items. Kosher and sugar-free ones exist too. Kosher ones are only part of the assortment, and exact details are on each product page. We don’t say the whole category meets one standard, so check the listing before you buy for a dietary program. Chocolate often contains or may contain allergens. Milk and soy show up a lot. Tree nuts and peanuts do too, and wheat and eggs here and there. Every product page has the full allergen declaration and ingredient list.
Who Buys Bulk Chocolate From Us
Our wholesale chocolate buyers are a mixed bunch. Candy shops mostly want the bulk bags for bins. Gourmet grocers go for the boxed pralines and truffles. Party supply and event favor businesses buy assorted pieces to repack. A few distributors build their own European lines from what we carry. Hotel and corporate gifting buyers make up the rest.
- Independent candy shops
- Gourmet and specialty grocers
- Event favor and party supply businesses
- Online candy retailers and subscription box operators
- Hotel and restaurant buyers
- Corporate gift and promotional product companies
- Travel retail operators
How to Order
Everyone buys at the listed prices, and there’s no minimum order. Approved wholesale accounts get account pricing instead. Case pack sizes are on each product page. Need a quote on larger volumes? Send the quote request form and our sales team will write back. Want an account? Apply for a wholesale account. We ship inside the United States only. Once you’re approved, pricing and order history live in one dashboard, so reorders go fast.