Lollipops are one of the easiest sweets to buy wholesale, because most manufacturers already package them that way — tubs of 150, bags of 100, cases of dozens of individually wrapped lollies. If you're stocking a pick 'n' mix counter, a party bag business or a sweet shop till point, buying wholesale lollipops usually just means picking the right pack size rather than hunting for a special trade deal.
Tubs: the standard bulk format
The ready-to-display tub is the most common wholesale lollipop format, because it doubles as the thing you'd actually put on a counter. Vidal's range covers most of the popular flavours this way: the Assorted Fruit Lollipops Tub, the Lotta Lollies Blue Raspberry Tub (vegan) and the Lotta Lollies Strawberry & Cream Tub each hold around 150 individually wrapped lollies, with multi-tub pricing built in if you need more than one.
Sour and novelty formats by the tub
Tongue-painter lollies — the kind that colour your mouth as you eat them — are also sold at bulk volume rather than just as single sweets. The Lotta Lollies Tongue Painter Tub and the Mega Zoom Tongue Painter Tub both come in wholesale-ready counts, and we cover the format itself — what it is and why it works — in our piece on lollipop history and tongue painters.
Bagged and cased formats
For buyers who want cases rather than tubs, several brands supply lollipops that way instead. Vimto Mixed Fruit Lollipops come as a 200-pack, Swizzels Double Lollies as a case of 100, and for chocolate lollies specifically, Kinnerton Milk Chocolate Lollipops are sold as a wholesale case of 27 — useful if you want a chocolate option alongside the fruit and sour ranges without buying a full catering tub.
Picking the right pack size
A single large tub makes sense if you're committing to one flavour at volume — a pick 'n' mix counter running one lollipop bin, say. If you want variety across a display, it's usually more practical to mix smaller cases of a few different flavours (fruit, sour, chocolate) rather than one giant tub of a single type. Either way, buying by the tub or case rather than individual lollies is where the real per-unit saving sits.
