Snacks Wholesale & Export

Savoury snacks are bought by format, not by brand. A fixture needs a fried potato tier, a tortilla tier, an extruded tier, a canned tier and something from ambient bakery, and each behaves differently on price, on rotation and above all on freight. This page follows those sub-formats, then the load planning that decides what a snack container costs you per unit.

Which snack lines open a new fixture

Buyers opening a lane rarely start with the whole range. Ambient bakery is the usual first move, shipping without a reefer and selling at counters that turn daily — our 7Days Bakery Snacks wholesale page explains how that dating is governed. The extruded tier follows, giving texture and price contrast fried potato cannot; our Cheetos wholesale page covers the crunchy-versus-puff split. Flat tortilla chips anchor the sharing occasion on our Doritos wholesale page. The potato tier is the volume base, and our Lay's wholesale page handles flavour sourcing where your own market cannot supply the variant.

Load planning for low-density snack freight

Snacks are the lightest freight we ship. The fill air that protects a crisp inside its bag also means a snack-only container reaches its volumetric limit while much of its payload allowance goes unused, and you pay for the space either way. The fixes are practical: build to full pallet height without overhang, stow dense goods low, never top-load bagged cases, use rigid cans to square off a pallet, and above all consolidate. Pairing a light snack load with a dense category on one booking pulls the freight cost per unit down across the shipment.

Building a snack fixture across formats and price points

A snack bay works when it covers texture and price rather than logos: one plain potato line as anchor, one bold-flavoured potato line above it, a flat tortilla for sharing, a rolled tortilla for intensity, an extruded line at entry price, a canned line for the travel shopper, and an ambient bakery item at the counter. Depth follows rate of sale; breadth follows shopper missions. If the plan is still forming, what the sourcing guide says about the snacks range covers phasing a first order into a repeatable programme.

Channels this range is bought for

Modern trade and supermarket buyers take multipacks and share bags. Convenience, forecourt and kiosk operators take single-serve and canned formats. Cash-and-carry wholesalers take full cases across the tiers. Foodservice, catering and vending buyers take portion packs and catering cases. Travel retail and duty-free take rigid formats that survive handling. We supply all of them through importers, regional distributors and wholesalers — never consumers.

How the snacks range ships

Stock leaves in original manufacturer packaging, palletised and shrink-wrapped with batch codes and best-before dates visible, by case, pallet or full container load, or groupage where a container is not yet justified — EXW, FOB, CIF or DAP through Antwerp and Rotterdam. EU-produced packs carry the ingredient and allergen declarations required under EU food information rules, and destination-language artwork is treated as a specification. Consignments travel with a commercial invoice, packing list and export declaration; EUR.1 movement certificates are issued where goods qualify on EU preferential origin, and Certificates of Origin with full export documentation accompany lines that do not. Because snack loads consolidate so well, most buyers also review the rest of what we hold beyond the snacks range before closing the booking.

What a snacks quotation is built from

No price list is published. A snack quotation moves with the volume tier, the Incoterm, the cube-to-weight ratio of the formats chosen, whether the container is pure or mixed, the label version required at destination and whether supply is one-off or recurring. Case, pallet and full container quantities are available on request, and every commercial term is confirmed in writing on the pro-forma against the allocation offered.

Where this range ships

Destination rules, preference mechanisms and loading all change what this range costs on arrival:

• Export markets and trade preferences
• Export documentation reference
• Pallets & containers loading guide