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Add A Smile To Your Customers With Sally Williams Fine Foods LLC

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Finding the right products to feature in your store is a hard task. With so many items to choose from, where do you even start to begin? Why not begin with something that you know your customers are going to enjoy? What is that? Well, of course, everyone loves gourmet food. So, why not start with that? However, who do you choose? One great vendor to choose is Sally Williams Fine Foods LLC.

Milk Chocolate Nougat
There’s no doubt about it that this vendor puts a 110% effort at creating a gourmet product just for their customers. Their nougatiers are carefully selected based on their skill, dedication, flair and passion. They are all masters in creating luxury nougats that are entirely handmade in small batches to guarantee the ideal nougat experience.

They haven’t stopped just there in mastering their techniques and gourmet foods. They devote the same time, love and care to creating their Turkish delights as they have always done. Everything is hand crafted just as you would expect.

So, what delicious treats do they offer? You’ll find amazing, honey nougat, Turkish delight, chocolate, gifts and favors. Choose from Supreme Macadamia & Almond Nougat Pieces, Soft Nougat Pieces, Honey Nougat, Belgian Milk Chocolate and Dark Chocolate Coated Nougats are just some of the delicious pieces that you can offer your customers.

Also, lets not forget about their scrumptious chocolate. All of their gourmet chocolates will become a staple piece in your store. Your customers won’t be able to get out of the store before they find themselves opening up a piece of gourmet chocolate to enjoy.

Congratulation Gift
Don’t forget that these yummy chocolates also make fantastic gifts. They offer great gifts, favors and corporate gifts that your customers can choose Continue reading “Add A Smile To Your Customers With Sally Williams Fine Foods LLC” »

Sweeten Your Store With 2 Chicks with Chocolate

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Are you satisfying those sweet tooth’s that came into your store? Satisfying these customers is a must. However, with so much variety out there, where do you begin? Well, begin with 2 Chicks with Chocolate. This company offers such variety that you’ll appeal to all your customers. Everyone’s taste buds are satisfied with them.

Toffee & Bark

2 Chicks with Chocolate features various creations of gourmet chocolate that are absolutely to die for. You’ll also find their creations in various gourmet magazines, books and television shows. This will entice your customers even more! Yet, the taste will keep customers coming back for more.

So, what type of chocolate do they offer? Custom chocolate bars, toffee & bark, fire & ice, spicy tiles, popcorn and chocolate collections are the variety of chocolate you can feature in your store. Doesn’t everything just sound simply amazing? These chocolates will definitely satisfy those sweet tooth’s.

When it comes to finding the right flavors, they’ve got it down. Choose from their coffee bark with espresso sea salt, coconut lime bark, dark chocolate bark or their fire & ice coco mix that can be served hot, cold or frozen. Don’t forget about their spice tiles that feature a blend of milk chocolate, cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg, and cayenne pepper. Taste buds will go crazy for this unique blend of chocolate and spices.

Chocolate Bars

For something a little different, let customers experience their rock-n-pop, which features chocolate covered popcorn, toffee crunch and pop rocks! Truly providing a unique explosion in your mouth. Also, if your customers can’t decide on just one flavor, which most of them won’t, they can create their own chocolate collection.

If you have chocolate connoisseurs walking into your store, satisfy them with 2 Chicks with Chocolate. Their amazing Continue reading “Sweeten Your Store With 2 Chicks with Chocolate” »

Keep Your Store Sweet With Candies & Confections

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With the big holidays coming up, have you started stocking your store with those sweet treats? Candies and confections not only appeal to your customer’s taste buds, but they are big sellers for gift items. However, do you know what the latest trends are or what’s going to appeal to your customers? Well, FGmarket has our top picks within candies & confections that everyone will enjoy.

Hand crafted chocolate covered rice krispy treats from Sweet Express are just the treats you need for your store. These sweet treats are truly unique and decorated for every occasion. The jack o lantern rice krispy treat is great for Halloween or their turkey is ideal for Thanksgiving. These items are great for the holidays, as add-ons to flower arrangements or you’ll find that they make great accessories in gift baskets.

Our next pick is pour boxes from Birmingham Chocolate. This box is actually made from chocolate. It’s poured into a mold to create a chocolate box. Your customers can choose from different shapes and sizes that come in dark, milk, white or a combination of chocolate. What can your customers do with these great boxes? Of course, store their favorite chocolate truffles in them.

Don’t forget to feature sugar-free candy from Eda’s Sugarfree Hard Candy. Not everyone can enjoy sugars, however, these sugar-free hard candies will satisfy any sweet tooth. Your customers won’t find sugar, salt, “net” carbs, trans fats or cholesterol. Everything tastes delicious and it comes in different flavors, such as blueberry, butter rum, sour cherry and butterscotch.

Popcorn lace from Sensational Sweets is a must. Tiny pieces of tender and flavorful popcorn are dipped in chocolate. Popcorn and chocolate combined is such a decadent indulgence. This sweet treat comes just on its own or in a container that hold Continue reading “Keep Your Store Sweet With Candies & Confections” »

Dying For Custom Chocolates & Chocolate Novelty Candy?

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Admit it. Even the thought of scrumptious chocolate makes your mouth water. Your customers are the same way. One mention of a morsel of gourmet chocolate is enough to make the mind wander back to a land that would make Willy Wonka jealous. There are no oompa loompas at Custom Chocolate, but they have a different and better kind of novelty for their chocolate candies.

Novelty Chocolates from Custom Chocolate
With holidays and special occasions always on the horizon, it’s a wonderful idea to keep themed holiday chocolates around. No one can pass shamrock shaped chocolates covered in green foil on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s almost impossible to stay away from bat shaped chocolate lollipops on Halloween or christmas tree shaped chocolates during the Christmas season.

Even holidays not on the federal calendar are celebrated with chocolate novelty candies from Custom Chocolate. Graduation, piano and guitar recitals, choir concerts, the changing of the seasons, weddings, anniversaries and award ceremonies all end on a sweet note thanks to delicious custom chocolates.

When there is no special occasion but gourmet chocolates are on everyone’s mind, move that memory to the taste buds thanks to Custom Chocolate. Every occasion or no occasion is right for their novelty chocolate. Want to celebrate with some champagne but not a drinker? Order chocolate in the shape of a champagne bottle. It’s even covered in foil to look like a champagne bottle! The first few months of the year are award show season. Give yourself (or let your customers give their friends) a very special award–gourmet chocolate in the shape of an Oscar award!

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Sweeten The Deal

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Sweeten Your Bottom Line with Candies and Confections

As a retailer, you’re always concerned about the bottom line. A sure-fire way to increase sales and offer customers something they’ll keep coming back for is by offering candies and confections. All the major food chains know that if you ask, “Would you like fries with that?” most people will say “yes.” So, why not incorporate that same selling technique with candies your customers can’t say “no” to? Who can resist a luscious handmade chocolate, an old fashioned piece of candy or a piece of homemade fudge (maybe even made right in your store!)? FGMarket will introduce you to the wholesale candies and confections suppliers who can make it happen.

Eye-Catching Novelty Candy Focuses On Present-day Trends

Scripture Candy Jelly Beans

Novelty candy is a great way to focus in on trends in the market as well as your unique customer base.
Many people find inspiration in little everyday ways. A unique way to inspire your customers is with candy from Scripture Candy. Every piece of candy they sell comes with a scripture verse on it. They have pocket tin candy, gum pocket tins, cream rolls, holiday candy, lollipops and suckers, jelly beans, tubs of candy and chocolate–literally, something for everyone. These make great add-ons to gifts, flowers, gourmet baskets, balloons–or even for the giver’s own pocket!

Chocolate Candy Created With Novelty

Chocolate Crisis Center Candy

Humor is always a great selling point, as Chocolate Crisis Center’s products prove. They offer the “ultimate alternative chocolate remedy” for those in a chocolate crisis. Their chocolate candies are dispensed in Daily Dose, Mega Dose and Over Dose bottles, depending on the severity of the chocolate crisis. Their unique flavors like Candy Apple Caramels, Tiramisu Cocoa Caramels, Chocolate Cinnamon Buzz Bombs and Chocolate Raspberry are sure to heal even the weakest chocoholic.
Gourmet coffee lovers will perk up when they see Acapella Gourmet Foods gourmet chocolate coffee bars in your store. They come in a variety of irresistible flavors like Espresso, Toffee Espresso, Cappuccino and Caramel Macchiato.
Peters Imports offers novelty body candy that inspires in a rather different way. Their Chocoholics Body Talk Tattoo Kit and Body Frosting are delectable and edible. The Body Frosting comes in Chocolate and Chocolate Wild Cherry flavors. They also make chocolates that kids will enjoy, like their Madelaine Chocolate Crayons, a variety of chocolate “insects”, and mesh bags of chocolate sports balls for soccer, basketball, baseball, football and golf, which make great party favors or team treats. They also offer boxed candy like Anastasia Coconut Patties, Key Lime Coconut Patties, and Bodgons Kahlua Candy Sticks.

Quintessential Chocolates Liquid Filled Chocolate

Chocolat by Quintessential Chocolates offers exquisite, handmade, liquid filled chocolates your customers won’t be able to resist. They specialize in spirits, wine, coffee and fruits for the liquid centers in their chocolates. Their flavors include Kentucky Bourbon, Crème de Menthe, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cappuccino Coffee, Southern Pecan Coffee and Raspberry Chocolate, just to name a few.

A Candy Gift For All Tastes

If you have a customer base of dog lovers, dog bone shaped mints will be a hit with them. Blizzard’s Bones packages these peppermints in tins and promise an “exhilarating rescue from stale breath.”
Fruit candies are especially tempting when they come from the sunny orchards of the historic Shenandoah Valley and Millcroft Farms Company. They fill their apple candy with the finest apples and nuts available for a taste of old-fashioned goodness.

Old Fashioned Fudge A Tasty Reminder Of The Past

Arndt's Vanilla Fudge And Chocolate Fudge

Nothing says old fashioned goodness like homemade fudge and Arndt’s Fudgery knows what that’s all about. They offer 75 flavors of fudge including vanilla fudge, sugar-free and low-carb varieties. Some of their special flavors include Oreo Cookie, Dreamsicle, Key Lime, Caramel Apple Pie and German Chocolate Cake just to name a few. They also make selling their confections a piece of cake with support items such as display cases, candy bags, fudge boxes, stainless steel spatulas and “Fresh Fudge” banners.
The fragrant smell and sweet taste of fudge will draw people in should you choose to make fudge right in your store. Yohay Baking Company provides fudge mix and the equipment to simply and easily make this delicious candy. Giving a tempting treat to customers is a great way to say “thanks”.

Bulk Up Future Profits With Candy & Candy Displays

Bulk candy from Tropical Foods is a great addition to your product line. Choose from favorites like rock candy, candy corn, jelly beans, hard candy, gummies, gumballs, and Jordan almonds among other varieties.
Candy Concepts specializes in wholesale candy displays, candy fixtures and containers for point of purchase retail stores. Their pre-filled candy displays are easy and make great use of space.

Offering sweets like chocolate candy, novelty candy, bulk candy and fudge can insure a steady stream of revenue for your business. Don’t miss out on this satisfying way of turning sweet treats into sweet profits. Let the wholesale candy suppliers at FGmarket help you take advantage of your customers sweet tooth.

Contributor: Jill Evans

Gourmet Foods The Tasty Way To Increase Profits

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Cook Up Year-Round Profits With Gourmet Foods

What could you have in common with Oprah, Rachael Ray, and Paula Deen? The hottest gourmet and specialty food items that people rave about! Since cooking “gourmet” everyday has made a huge comeback in recent years, by catering to your customer’s love for all things culinary, you can draw in new customers year-round with a great selection of gourmet food items. Having gourmet products on hand for individual sales and to include in gift baskets can boost your sales between holidays and build customer loyalty. Any gift shop or florist can sell knick-knacks and flowers. But what will set you apart from the rest is by carrying high-quality, gourmet food items. FGmarket will introduce you to a few of the many gourmet food suppliers available to help you profit from this trend.

Sweeten Sales with Biscotti – A Scrumptious Gourmet Food

Gourmet coffee is all the rage these days, attracting everyone from teenagers to baby-boomers looking for a pick-me-up in the middle of their hectic schedules. Instead of just offering an array of gourmet coffees, why not upscale your products to include homemade biscotti? Peggy’s Homemade Biscotti offers 37 distinctive flavors of this crunchy Italian cookie that’s great for dipping in a hot cup of coffee. Buy individual flavors or pre-made gift baskets and treat your customers to a bit of homemade heaven. With flavors like Coconut Chocolate chunk, Apricot Macadamia and Butterscotch Toffee, you’ll be sure to draw a crowd looking for more than just a run-of-the-mill gift basket.

Boost Gourmet Sales With Healthy Organics

 

Because of the renewed emphasis on eating healthy, organic foods’ popularity is on the upswing. You can position yourself as a specialty store for organics that no other retailer can compete with by offering products that appeal to the health-conscious customer. Carrying products from Melissa’s can help set you apart from the rest. Their organic grilling sauces, salad dressings and marinades add that gourmet touch to a BBQ gift basket for Father’s Day; pasta sauces and herb mixes give an Italian gift basket that extra zing; high-quality organic fruits at their freshest make an ordinary fruit basket exceptional. Melissa’s can add that gourmet touch to satisfy your customers’ needs for healthy alternatives.

Go Green with Global Gourmet Goodies

 

There is now a delicious way to go green! With global awareness and an appreciation of cultural diversity on the rise, offering sweetriot’s chocolate covered cacao beans is the perfect way to show your customers that you care. The socially conscious group at sweetriot offers a variety of cacao beans and chocolate covered cacao beans boasting premium ingredients and innovative artwork. To sweeten the pot, these treats are healthy as well as delicious. All of the products at sweetriot are rich in antioxidants, all natural, low in calories, dairy free, gluten-free, and kosher. These sweet treats are packaged in reusable tins decorated with the artwork of independent artists. Showcasing these global goodies would make not only a colorful and appealing display in your store but a beautiful statement as well.

Spice Up Gourmet Sales with Flame-Roasted Chiles

 

Fire up your sales throughout the year with products made from New Mexico flame-roasted chile — “the best sweet chile in the world.” Cannon Sweet Hots offers a wide variety of salsas and sauces, from mild to fiery hot, to satisfy every palate. These chiles are so versatile; they can be used in appetizers, entrees, and even as toppings for ice cream! Their gift baskets are customized with items of your choice in chile-shaped baskets. Your customers will love the uniqueness and versatility of these products, but be warned: Sweet Hots chiles are addictive, so stock up!

Spice Up Sales with Upscale Gourmet Products

 

Paula’s Pepper Jelly offers an array of gourmet food items that will perk up your gift basket business. By adding their gourmet wine, pepper jelly, spices, hot sauces and condiments, you can add that gourmet flair to your gift basket sales. They offer exceptional wines from Washington, Australia and Argentine, and their wide variety of homemade pepper jellies, hot sauces, and condiments boast several award winners that your customers will love.

Savor Increased Sales with a Variety Of Gourmet Sauces

For the best offerings in barbecue sauces, you can’t lose with Head Country Barbecue’s award-winning sauces. Jack Miller Food Products offers their best barbecue sauce, Cajun seasoning blend, and cocktail sauce that will kick up gift basket sales. Golden Harvest Pantry features sauces, mustards, chow chow, vinegars, jams, jellies and honeys. Their Roasted Garlic and Vidalia Onion Salad Dressings are top picks, as well as their Amish jams, jellies and fruit butters.

Enhance Sales With Tasty Gourmet Snacks

Southern Things offers their one-of-a-kind cheese straws called Ginny O’s cheese rings, which were featured in Oprah’s O! magazine as one of their top 100 products. They specialize in great snacks like pork rinds, kettle cooked dirty potato chips and gourmet nuts. Peculiar Spice Company has a variety of mix packages for dips and spreads, soups, sweets and side dishes. Their Hawaiian Cheese Ball mix, Orange Dreamcicle Cheesecake mix and Hawaiian Chicken Salad mix make great additions to a tropical gourmet gift basket.

Beef-up Sales With Gourmet Meats And Seafoods

For those meat-lover customers, burgers and steaks from Elk Meat Shop provide a healthy alternative to beef. These make great gifts in and of themselves, or add a distinctive taste to a grilling or barbecue gift basket. For seafood lovers, try The Great Gourmet’s clam chowder, crab soups, lobster bisque, crab cakes, and their huge variety of fresh fish and seafood direct from Chesapeake Bay.

If you’re looking for a delicious way to perk up your gift basket sales throughout the year and attract new customers, go the gourmet food way. FGmarket’s Gourmet Food suppliers can show the way. Your customers will appreciate the extra efforts you make to bring them exceptional products for their gourmet gift baskets.

Contributor: Jill Evans

How Sweet The Sales With Chocolate!

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What better way to say, “I Love You”, than with chocolate?

Well, how about chocolate with a twist?

This Valentine’s Day, offer your customers some unique sweets that will boost your holiday sales and have everyone talking. Be on the cutting edge of what’s hot for this lovers’ holiday by choosing unique chocolate items rather that the traditional box of chocolates. This FGmarket newsletter, highlights a few wholesale candies and confections suppliers that will inspire your Valentine gift ideas. Boost your sales by offering your customers the most unique chocolate selections — with a twist.

A New Approach to Wholesale Chocolates

Chocolate Heart Box by Chocolate Impressions

Develop a brand new approach to chocolate by including photos and messages (anything you want to say) with products from Chocolate Impressions. Select a high-quality chocolate gift from their wide range of Chocolography products, then customize with your uploaded image, clip art, frames, backgrounds and greetings. Offer this to your customers for custom orders, or choose your own personalized messages that customers will love. Their Chocolate Heart Box (great for enclosing an engagement ring or other jewelry), Heart Lollipop, Portrait with Truffles or Personalized Chocolates will draw customers in for that one-of-a-kind Valentine gift.
While Chocolate Impressions’ products are great for year-round sales, they can certainly boost your sales during the Valentine’s Day holiday. By adding their chocolates to your gift baskets, balloon bouquets and that showstopper – dozen red roses, you will offer your customers the ultimate Valentine gifts.

Custom Chocolate Heart & Jelly Bellies

Join the ranks of celebrities, Jennifer Lopez or Elton John, by ordering high-quality chocolates from Custom Chocolates. They specialize in custom-molded chocolates in four enticing flavors (milk, dark, dark mint and white vanilla) with over 3,000 shapes to choose from, including hearts, long stem roses and champagne bottles.
Some of their treats: include a large Chocolate Heart Box filled with Jelly Bellies; a Valentine Treat Bag filled with six Lindt truffles and six heart-shaped chocolates. They also have Cupid’s Arrows (red licorice sticks dipped in white chocolate) and for that quintessential cookie lover a Valentine Oreo Treat Bag filled with six dark chocolate mint dipped Oreo Cookies — who wouldn’t love that!

Luscious Gourmet Chocolates

Hand Made Chocolates From The Artfull Chocolatier

If you cater to horse lovers in your locale, the equine-inspired products offered by The Artful Chocolatier Inc. are just the ticket. Each confection is made by hand, using only the freshest creams, caramels, nuts and flavorings. Then, one by one, each candy is hand-dipped in rich, creamy European chocolate for a luscious taste experience that lingers on the palette. Assorted chocolates, assorted creams, nut assortment and cherry cordials can be purchased separately or in gift baskets. These gourmet chocolates can be combined with chocolate filled tack trunks or little gold bags of pure milk chocolate covered stallions.
Add a specialized touch to a Valentine’s gift basket for equestrians with their all-natural soaps and lotions made from cocoa butter, shea butter, Vitamin E and botanicals. Let your customers eat gourmet chocolate and pamper their skin at the same time with products from The Artful Chocolatier.

Chocolate Caramel Lips From Mille-Lac Gourmet Foods

If you’re looking for gourmet chocolates with a kick, Mille-Lac Gourmet Foods offers several products for the wine and chocolate connoisseur. Be “the toast of the town” with their Chocolate Martini confections or Chardonnay Wine Truffles. Give customers a twist to the traditional boxed chocolates with Margarita Chocolates and Pina Colada Chocolates. Valentine’s Day just wouldn’t be complete without Chocolate Caramel Lips. They’re lip-smacking delicious! Women adore Mille-Lac’s Chocolates in Rose Box, but men will love their Delicious Fishes (milk chocolate caramels) and Fudgie Frogs (mint chocolate truffles). With these great gourmet chocolates, you’ll be everyone’s favorite Valentine on Valentine’s Day.
They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, so don’t forget to offer some heartier selections for men this Valentine’s Day. Chocolate may be a girl’s best friend, but men may want something more meaty. Mille-Lac offers gourmet cheeses, meats and other food items, like their Heart of Wisconsin gourmet meat and cheese selections that will puts a smile on any man’s face. Help your customers celebrate every day and the holidays with the many festive products from Mille-Lac Gourmet Foods.

Chocolate Alternatives

Chocolate Lovers Gift Basket McJak Candy Company

“Lollipop, lollipop, ooo lolli-lollipop!” If you want to offer your customers an alternative to chocolate, gourmet lollipops from McJak Candy Company are the way to go. Made the old-fashioned way in copper kettles, these high-quality gourmet lollipops make great additions to gift baskets, that young and old alike will rave over. Their Dear Heart heart-shaped lollipops come in five flavors and colors. McJak also offers several gift baskets that are sure to be a hit. The Lollipop Sampler basket has 50 assorted-flavored lollipops (like cherry cheesecake and strawberry daiquiri) and 10 Javapops (coffee lollipops with natural coffee flavor and caffeine).
Customers will adore the Chocolate Lovers basket. An alternative to traditional chocolate candy, this basket contains an assortment of chocolate lollipops, Javapops and gourmet fudge. Offer your customers the ultimate lovers gift, McJak’s Valentines Basket, filled with 20 Dear Heart lollipops and gourmet fudge. To carry chocolate or not to carry chocolate, that is the question. Either way, McJak Candy Company can hook you up.
These are just a few of the fine suppliers of wholesale candy and gourmet chocolate items in our FGmarket wholesale Candies and Confections category. Offering these unique chocolate and candy products to your clientele will boost your Valentines Day sales. Adding a twist on the traditional Valentines gifts will put your name on everyone’s lips and chocolate on their fingertips.
Need other Valentine gift products to go with your chocolate? Check out the suppliers in the FGmarket Holiday & Special Occasion wholesalers category.

Contributor: Jill Evans