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I'm Jessica, your dedicated wholesale account manager.
Direct sourcing — Rungis and Bordeaux.
- ✓Direct sourcing from producers
- ✓Quality controlled (shelf-life, calibre, origin)
- ✓Next-day delivery in Île-de-France
- ✓Bulk, custom packaging, co-packing
- ✓B2B account with pricing tiers
Shipping & pickup
Rungis pickup
Pick up your order at our Rungis market depot. By appointment Monday through Friday.
Nationwide delivery
Delivery within mainland France and major European cities. Indicative lead time 24-48h.
Careful packaging
Reinforced cardboard, anti-shock padding, traceability labels.
Frequently asked questions
About this category
Confectionery built for professional supply
Palimex has supported artisans, pastry chefs, delicatessens, foodservice operators and distributors since 1984 with a single source for wholesale confectionery. The range spans eight complementary families — almond paste, Turkish delight and nougat, saffron truffles, fruit paste, glacé chestnuts, oriental pastries, energy balls and festive products — each sourced to answer a precise professional use, from self-service shelving to a caterer's display.
Our wholesale positioning means packaging designed for volume: buckets, cases and bulk formats sized for turnover in a shop or professional kitchen, backed by permanent stock that limits shortages on the most ordered references. This supply continuity is what sets a wholesale confectionery supplier apart from a simple reseller: the ability to deliver the same reference, at the same grade, order after order, across an entire season.
The catalogue serves very different buyer profiles — an urban delicatessen, a traditional restaurant, an event caterer, a bakery-pastry shop or large retail — and each product family answers a distinct professional use rather than a simple taste preference.
Comparing confectionery families
Each family answers a different use case and buyer profile. This table helps orient the order according to the profession and the sales format targeted, before even comparing references against one another.
| Family | Typical professional use | Packaging |
|---|---|---|
| Almond paste | Pastry, filling, decoration | Bulk / case |
| Turkish delight & nougat | Delicatessen, gift boxes, foodservice | Bucket / case |
| Truffle / saffron | Premium confectionery, corporate gifts | Small professional packaging |
| Fruit paste | Pastry shop display, pro retail | Tray / kg |
| Glacé chestnuts | Year-end holidays, delicatessen | Gift box / bulk |
| Oriental pastry | Catering, foodservice, community grocers | Tray (pieces) |
| Energy balls | Healthy snacking, retail, foodservice | Multi-format case |
| Festive products | Holiday seasons, corporate gifts | Gift box / case |
This table remains indicative: the same professional often combines several families depending on the season — more glacé chestnuts and festive products at year-end, more fruit paste and Turkish delight the rest of the year.
Selection criteria for a wholesale order
Three criteria consistently come up with our professional clients when choosing a confectionery supplier:
- Consistency of supply from one order to the next, with no variation in grade or texture
- Packaging matched to actual sales volume, avoiding both overstock and shortage
- Batch traceability, essential for commercial catering as much as for delicatessens
Oriental pastry (baklava, gazelle horn, samsa, chabakia, makroudh) illustrates this well: produced by trays for catering or foodservice use, it requires a different restocking rhythm than a Turkish delight or an almond paste sold by the kilo. A caterer preparing a one-off oriental buffet does not have the same needs as a shop stocking an oriental pastry shelf year-round.
Grade matters too: a roasted-almond nougat, an artisanal fruit paste or a premium-quality glacé chestnut do not share the same density or shelf life, which directly affects the most cost-effective packaging format for a given point of sale.
We guide every professional toward the packaging — bulk, case or tray — that genuinely matches their sales rhythm, rather than the most common format.
Storage and wholesale logistics
Confectionery products don't all share the same storage constraints: a soft nougat or an almond paste keeps differently from a tray of freshly prepared oriental pastry. We package each reference consistently with its shelf life and guide buyers toward the format that limits breakage and degradation during transport and reserve storage.
Orders are organised via pallet or free-delivery shipping depending on volume, with a minimum order aligned with professional practices in the sector. Good stock rotation also depends on how the reserve is organised: the most fragile references (fresh oriental pastry, artisanal fruit paste) benefit from being placed first in rotation, shortening the time between receipt and shelving or preparation.
Regulations governing labelling and wholesale food sales are set out by the French DGCCRF, whose recommendations guide our packaging and product information practices across the whole confectionery range.
A range that complements the rest of the wholesale catalogue
Confectionery naturally complements Palimex's other professional categories: dried fruit, candied fruit, spices or world flavours. Many of our foodservice and delicatessen clients combine several families in a single order to limit deliveries and streamline their supplier logistics, particularly ahead of peak-demand periods such as year-end holidays or Ramadan for oriental pastry and Turkish delight.
This pooled-supply approach also helps negotiate better volumes and access pricing tiers consistent with a shop's or workshop's real order frequency.