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Manufacturer

Turkey• Istanbul

Ariso is a Turkish confectionery brand producing biscuits, chocolate, wafers, cake and crackers since 1995. Its products are manufactured at the Modern Çikolata facilities, with an annual capacity of 140,000 tons and over 30 years of industry experience. The portfolio spans more than 300 products across seven main categories, made under ISO 9001, ISO 22000, BRC and HACCP certified production.

Manufacturer

Turkey• Karaman

Çiğdem Bisküvi is a Turkish food manufacturer founded in 2003 in Karaman, specializing in biscuits, wafers, and chocolate-coated products. The company uses premium wheat from the Karaman region together with modern production techniques to make cream-filled biscuits, sandwich biscuits, wafers, petit beurre biscuits, and cakes. It emphasizes food safety, hygiene, and customer satisfaction.

Manufacturer

Turkey• Istanbul

HiLife Gida is a Turkish manufacturer of biscuits, wafers, chocolate, and cake based in Istanbul. The company operates modern production lines for bakery and confectionery snacks. Its products are distributed across local and international markets under several in-house brands.

Manufacturer

Turkey• Istanbul

Fenomen Gıda is a Turkish confectionery company based in the Fevzi Çakmak neighbourhood of Pendik, Istanbul; its registered trade name is "Fenomen İht. ve Gıda Mad. San. Tic. Ltd. Şti." according to its listing with PESİAD, the Pendik industrialists' and business people's association. The company states that it started out in Istanbul in 2014 with confectionery, lollipop and marshmallow products, began its own production in 2017 and quickly gained momentum in the Turkish market. The company says it puts children's health and development first, that it makes handmade products and that it holds local and international food-safety certificates. Its website shows ISO 9001:2015 (quality management), ISO 14001:2015 (environmental management), ISO 45001:2018 (occupational health and safety) and ISO 10002:2018 (customer satisfaction and complaints management) certificates, plus two CE declarations of conformity. The range is organised in three groups: lollipops, including the Strawberry Lollipop (38 g), Watermelon Lollipop, the spinning Çırçır Lollipop (23 g), the handmade Polonya Şekeri (25 g) and Pop Lips (12 g), Pop Çilek and Pop Ahududu (27 g), Vampir Pop and the ring-shaped King Pop (16 g); toy candies, including Ice Cream Pop with a plastic cone, ZıpZıp Tavşan (bouncing bunny), Robot Dip Lick, Bunny Sweet, Çilli Horoz, Dip & Lick and the Ice Cream Machine (Dondurma Makinesi); and toy gums: the Fenomen Gumball Machine, the Princess Gumball Machine and the telephone-shaped Gummy Phone. It also lists Elips handmade loose festive (bayram) candy (5 g), Mix Enjoy (32 g), Spin Rocket, Rüzgar Gülü (pinwheel), Harika Kanatlar and Super Dino Pop. The company states that it exports 50% of its production to international markets and that it has a wide distributor network across Turkey supplying sales points nationwide; its website gives separate export phone numbers and an export e-mail address.

Manufacturer

Turkey• Istanbul

Target Trade is the trading name of Target Pazarlama Plastik San. ve Tic. A.Ş., based in Silivri, Istanbul. The company says it entered the sector with more than 30 years of experience in FMCG and foreign trade, carried this into manufacturing through strategic investments and acquired the brands of Lolliboni A.Ş., becoming an integrated producer in the toy candy category; its catalogue states that it made this new move from 2020. According to the company, its food production facilities, offices and warehouses in Beylikdüzü and Silivri cover a total enclosed area of 10,000 m². Alongside candy production it runs its own packaging department with a production and packaging staff of 80, sourcing domestic, certified toys and integrating them into its products, and it puts its total workforce at 250. It says it holds all the certificates required for food production, without naming them. Its range covers surprise eggs (mini, midi, jumbo, heart-shaped and on a string), the Big Toy Lollipop and Mini Big Toy Lollipop, lollipops with gum, patterned and gift lollipops and a tongue-painting sour lollipop, and candy-filled toys such as ball and mushroom money boxes, surprise hamburgers, surprise fruit and vegetables, mini bags, suitcases, chests, doctor and beauty sets, candy boxes and a gum machine, alongside surprise packs, sour belts and sour sticks, sour gel candy, candy with bubble-gum filling, cocoa dragees, hazelnut cream with sticks, wafers, medallion chocolate, lipstick candy and cornets, including the Tiny Cornet filled with milk and hazelnut cream. The company states that it holds Turkish and European rights in the toy candy category for licences including Hello Kitty, Kuromi, PJ Masks, My Little Pony and Transformers, and also sells its own designs under the Lolliboni brand (Unicorn, Little Dragon, Dinosaur). The company says its dealer network in 48 Turkish provinces reaches 20,000 points of sale, with 12 distribution vehicles in Istanbul alone, and its catalogue states that it exports to 78 countries and operates in Turkey, Europe, the USA and the Middle East. It shows participation in fairs including Prodexpo Moscow (February 2024), Anuga and ISM in Cologne, Gulfood, SIAL China, IFE London and PLMA Amsterdam, and says its vision is to become Turkey's leading brand in the toy candy sector.

Manufacturer

Turkey• Istanbul

Toybox Gıda A.Ş. is a Turkish joint-stock company based in the Alipaşa neighbourhood of Silivri, Istanbul. The company states that it began production in 1996, has since kept a leading position in its sector, particularly in the Turkish domestic market, and initially made "Surprise Magic Toy Gum" for children before broadening its range in recent years to reach young and adult consumers as well. The company says its factory runs production lines for jelly, licorice, marshmallow, toy gum and metre gum, lollipops, real-chocolate products, hard and soft filled candies, toy egg chocolate and figure chocolate, with a total annual capacity of 15,000 tonnes, and that its products hold local and international food-safety certificates, which it does not name. Its range is presented in seven groups: toy products such as 4 Slice (jelly and jelly beans with surprise toys), Big Egg, Heroo's (Drajebon coloured chocolate dragées with a gift toy) and Yooyo (a toy with jelly, Drajebon, a tattoo and a taso); gum products: toy gum, Shoocky filled gum in strawberry, apple, lemon and sour cherry, Metre Sakız and Metre Sakız 2in1 tape gum, and Misket Galaxy; chocolate and wafer: MAX (cocoa and milk cream with dragées and a toy), a milk-chocolate egg with a toy, Cream, Snack Stick, Drajebon, umbrella chocolate, pebble chocolate, Cornet and Game Toys; sugar confectionery: 11 g lollipops, 18 g gum-filled Lollitop, the toy lollipop, Music whistle candy, Miracle and Pearl filled candies and cotton candy; plus jelly in 10, 40 and 80 g packs, Jelly Beans and jelly cups, marshmallow in packs from 35 to 250 g, and Sour Rope, Sour Belt and Twist sour licorice. The company states that in Turkey its products reach about 70,000 points of sale through distributors in all 81 provinces with a fleet of 450 vehicles and are sold in national and local supermarket chains and online stores, and that the export drive it started recently now involves 55 business partners around the world.

Manufacturer

Turkey• Istanbul

Bembo (Bem&Bo) is a Turkish confectionery brand based in the Şişli district of Istanbul. It presents itself as "Bembo Confections" with the slogan "The Sweet World of Children", and its website gives its legal name as "BEMBO LIMITED COMPANY". The company says its journey began in 2020 and has continued to grow and evolve since then. On its website the company describes how its confections are made: high-quality raw materials are selected, with sugar enriched by natural fruit extracts and essences; the mixture is prepared to special formulas, homogeneously, in modern production facilities under the required temperature and pressure; it is shaped with special moulds and machines into drops, tablets, bars or figures, then cooled and hardened, and finally packed in hygienic, colourful packaging designed to keep the products fresh. The site does not mention quality certificates. The range is shown in three categories. Candy Toys include Bembo World (a toy with hard candy inside), the XL and XXL Funny Egg surprise eggs and the Funny Lolly surprise lollipop, both with gifts inside, the Funny XXL Burger with toys and candy, Sour Squezzy Gel Dino sour gel in cola, strawberry and berry flavours, the Pacifier Cornet (lolly dip sour candy with lollipop), the Boom Lolly Dip Sour Candy Mix, and Lucky Dinosaur. Soft Candy & Licorice includes jelly candy (bears, teeth, worms, strawberry, berry, cola and mix), Candy Fries, Sour Sauce, licorice belts, filled licorice, sour ropes in berries, cola, mango and strawberry, and sour filled licorice in 200 g packs and 1,500 g packs. Chocolate & Biscuit includes Choco Cornet, Choco Dragee, Mini Cones and Mini Filled Biscuits. The company says it regularly takes part in trade fairs; it exhibited at World Food Istanbul in 2023 and 2024, at ISM Middle East in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and at F İstanbul 2025. Its website is available in Turkish, English and Arabic and does not name export countries.

Manufacturer

Turkey• Istanbul

Azmet (Azmet Plastik Oyuncak ve Gıda San. Tic. Ltd. Şti.) is a Turkish limited company based in the Maltepe quarter of Zeytinburnu, Istanbul. The company states that it was founded in 1982 and began production with plastic toys, holding a leading position in that sector for many years; in 2002 it started producing dragée confectionery and thereby moved to the "candy toys" concept, which combines a toy and candy in one product. The company says it set up cocoa hazelnut cream production facilities in 2012 and chewing gum production facilities in 2017, that it keeps developing its range, and that it gives priority to customer satisfaction and quality. Its catalogue lists an item number, carton packing, carton dimensions and weights for each product. Its lead brand is Popbon: surprise eggs with toys and candy, eggs with playdough and candy for children aged 3+, and a floor stand holding 120 eggs, plus Popbon Lolly Tube, which combines a lollipop, a surprise toy and candy, and the ice-cream-cone-shaped Popbon Cornet. The surprise-egg range also includes Unicorn Surprise, Pirates Eggs, Dino Surprise (with game cards, candy and stickers), Kiddy Surprise and Lolly Surprise Egg. Candy toys filled with tutti-frutti flavoured dragée candy include Mr. Chicky, Mr. Candy Frog, Carnival Balloon, Düdüko Balloon (a whistle with a balloon), Handy Candy, Helipoli, Candy Pen, Candy Bomb, Candy Phone and Candy Animals. It also makes Clik Clak and Goal fruit-flavoured dragée candy in boxes and display stands, Tiki Taka and Goal whistle dragées, Baygum tutti-frutti bubble gum (balls and fruit shapes in 1 kg bags), Freshdent liquid-filled chewing gum and Chocomella cocoa hazelnut cream. The company states that it exports to more than 35 countries, without naming them, and publishes videos from the exhibitions it attends and of its new products on its "POPBON TV" YouTube channel.

Manufacturer

Turkey• Istanbul

Global Gida is a Turkish joint-stock company based in Pınar, Esenyurt, Istanbul, that makes confectionery and toy candies for children. The company states that its roots go back to a shop opened in Siirt in 1965, followed by a second shop in Van in 1977; it moved to Istanbul in 1987, set up wholesale outlets in Rami, Tahtakale and Mahmutbey, and turned to manufacturing in 1996. It has been registered with the Istanbul Trade Registry since 1 April 2005. The company says it built its first production facility in Esenyurt in 2002, starting with sugared and sugar-free chewing gum, then added marshmallow, kokolin (cocoa) eggs, licorice and soft candy; in 2012 it acquired Aras Gıda, a firm active in the toy-candy market, and it set up the Altınyaldız plant in Beylikdüzü, which makes injection-moulded plastic toys such as surprise-egg capsules, and in 2021 it took over Micromax Toys. It states that it operates a 44,000 m² production facility with close to 1,000 employees, checks raw materials in its laboratories, re-established licorice lines in 2021 and added popping-candy lines in 2022 and sugared-gum lines in 2023. According to its site it holds BRC, Halal, ISO 22000, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certificates. According to the company, the Esenyurt plant produces pressed candy, kokolin eggs, kokolin dragées, hazelnut-cream products, licorice, sugared chewing gum and popping candy, as well as play dough under the Toy Joy Dough brand. Its site lists licorice soft candy, dragée and pressed candy, popping candy, chewing gum, the toy group, stand (display) products and summer products. Its brands include Toy Joy, Eggo Toys, Magicbon, LicoRico, Bombeo, Cece, Cecebon, Dino Big, Dino Mino, Lucky Ball, Loop Candies, YumurToy and Big Wheels!, and its catalogue shows kokolin surprise eggs, HipHop pressed candy and toy candies shaped as vehicles and dolls. The company states that its products reach more than 60 countries and that it set a target of 100 countries. In Turkey it works with about 250 distributors across 81 provinces, its products are sold at about 20,000 points of sale, and it aims to become Turkey's largest soft-candy producer.

distributor

Jordan• Amman

Unipal General Trading Company is an Amman-based company that presents itself as one of the leading full-service FMCG distributors in Jordan. It is a subsidiary of the Unipal Group, established in 1994 by the Arab Palestinian Investment Company (APIC); the company's site describes APIC as an investment holding company with subsidiaries in Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, whose trade and distribution arm includes Unipal and whose manufacturing arm includes Siniora Food Industries. Unipal says its services cover full route-to-market management, distribution, supply chain and logistics, through to in-store execution. The company says it operates four distribution centres: two in Amman (food/cold storage and non-food), one in Irbid and one in Aqaba. The Amman centres cover 17,500 sqm with capacity for more than 19,000 pallets, with special storage areas for chilled and frozen products and a 45-day safety stock. A 36-person shipping team runs 28 trucks delivering within 24 to 72 hours of an order, plus 14 vans working mainly in the food and confectionery division. It states that its products are found in more than 10,000 points of sale, more than 4,000 of them covered directly, and that it serves traditional stores and groceries, modern trade, wholesalers, pharmacies, cosmetics stores, roasteries, creperies and HoReCa, with more than 320 employees. The company says it works with more than 20 leading global suppliers and more than 60 brands. Its Our Brands page shows food brands including SunRice rice, Nadec dairy, Siniora, FrieslandCampina and Rainbow milk, Al Alali, Heinz, Mars Wrigley and its Wrigley, Extra and Starburst brands, Hershey's and Reese's, Arcor, Lotus Biscoff, Lago, Breitsamer honey, Kean and Sunwhite. The company states that it applies Unipal Group systems derived from P&G's global distributor systems and complies with P&G quality-assurance standards, fully implementing their 19 key elements. It uses SAP, Tableau and mobile-sales tools, has dedicated sales teams for each business line and channel, a trade-marketing unit and a key-account team. It says it is a member of the Amman Chamber of Commerce, sums up its values as leadership, ethics and people, and describes its mission as being the number-one value-added, full-service FMCG distributor in the markets where it operates.

distributor

Jordan• Amman

LAYAN Food Trading & Logistics Services presents itself as an integrated food trading and logistics partner in Jordan since 1993, combining food supplies distribution with third-party logistics (3PL) and retail merchandising services. On social media it appears as Layan General Supplies, and it states that it has more than 30 years of experience and a team of over 200 employees. The company says its distribution network reaches more than 5,700 points and that it imports from 34 countries. It has two dedicated sales teams, one for retail and one for HoReCa (hotels, restaurants and catering), alongside brand management, marketing and customer service teams. Its privately owned warehouses are located in Al Qastal near the bonded area, with 36,000 pallet positions and temperature-controlled storage, and it owns a transport fleet of more than 80 vehicles including temperature-controlled transport. It reports more than 600,000 order deliveries and over 6 million cartons distributed annually, and says its logistics operation was established in 2003. The food trading section of its site shows brands including Lamb Weston and Farm Frites frozen potato products, Capri-Sun drinks, Hutesa, Fléchard, Jack's Creek, Vonk, Milla Frost, Sahtain, Classico, Pride, Delight and Smilla Food. Its strategic partners page adds brands including Emborg, Président, Galbani, Al Batal, El Hanim, Bonny, Palatina and Chef's Palette, and states that its partnerships span FMCG products covering food and beverages as well as personal and home care, serving retail and HoReCa needs from everyday essentials to specialised items. The company states that its logistics services hold ISO 9001:2015, ISO 22000:2018 (food safety), ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 14001:2015 certifications and Good Storage and Distribution Practices (GSDP), and that it offers supply chain management, fourth-party logistics (4PL) and an in-store merchandising team supported by real-time reporting. Its vision is to lead the Jordanian market in integrated food distribution and logistics, and it sums up its values as excellence, customer success, trust and transparency, and innovation.

Jordan• Amman

Indemaj Food Co. presents itself as a frozen food trading and supply company based in Amman, Jordan. It states that it was established in 2011 with a single mission: to deliver premium frozen food products to businesses across the region with uncompromising quality and supply consistency. According to its site, its team numbers nearly 100 dedicated professionals. The company says it runs a comprehensive cold-chain infrastructure, with temperature-controlled storage and logistics from source to the customer's loading dock, and that it serves wholesalers, distributors, supermarkets and food service operators, covering procurement, quality control and temperature-controlled delivery. It describes itself as having operated in Jordan's frozen food supply chain for more than 15 years, serving the regional market. Its portfolio spans five categories sourced from qualified international suppliers: frozen meat (beef, lamb and veal cuts from certified suppliers); poultry (whole and portioned chicken, turkey and other poultry products in a variety of pack formats for wholesale and food service); seafood (IQF fish fillets, shrimp, squid and mixed seafood from international fisheries); frozen vegetables (IQF and block-frozen vegetables such as peas, corn, beans, mixed blends and specialty items for retail and food service); and other frozen items including frozen pastries, dairy, specialty items and value-added frozen products. It says its full product list and current availability are available from its team on request. The company sums up what sets it apart in four points: more than 15 years of experience with deep supplier relationships and market knowledge, an unbroken cold chain, rigorous supplier qualification and product inspection so that every item leaving its facility meets strict food safety standards, and consistent stock availability across all categories. Its site does not name specific brands or certifications.