British Sweets with a History Dating Back to 1848

The Barratt story began in Shoreditch in 1848, when George Osborne Barratt started making confectionery with a single sugar boiler. The range grew into some of Britain’s most recognisable sweets, many of which remain fixtures in sweet shops, corner shops and pick and mix displays.

That longevity provides retailers with something valuable: instant familiarity. Customers may not remember where they first tried a Barratt sweet, but they often remember the flavour, wrapper and precise amount of pocket money it once required.

Barratt Jelly Babies

Barratt Jelly Babies are soft, chewy fruit-flavoured sweets with their familiar sugar-dusted finish. Their assorted colours, traditional shape and broad appeal make them a dependable choice for pick and mix counters, sweet jars and pre-packed confectionery.

Available in 3kg wholesale bags, Jelly Babies can be poured directly into a display or divided into smaller retail portions. Few sweets have remained recognisable for so long while continuing to look mildly surprised about it.

Dip Dabs, Refreshers and Sherbet Sweets

Barratt Dip Dabs turn eating sweets into a simple but absorbing procedure: lick the strawberry-flavoured lolly, dip it into the lemon sherbet and repeat until patience or sherbet runs out.

Supplied in boxes of 50 sachets, Dip Dabs are ready for counter displays, party bags and novelty sweet selections. Their familiar yellow packaging helps the product explain itself before the retailer has to.

Barratt Refreshers provide another recognisable fizzy experience. These fruit-flavoured tablet sweets deliver a sharp, crumbly fizz and are supplied in individually wrapped rolls for convenient resale.

Black Jack and Fruit Salad Chews

Barratt Black Jack chews offer the distinctive flavour of aniseed in individually wrapped stick packs. They are dark, chewy and unapologetically different from the fruit flavours surrounding them.

Fruit Salad chews provide the colourful counterpart, combining familiar raspberry and pineapple flavours in a soft, chewy format. Together, Black Jack and Fruit Salad represent two enduring Barratt favourites with strong retro appeal.

Fizzy Cola Bottles and Sour Sweets

Barratt Fizzy Cola Bottles combine a soft gummy texture with cola flavour and a tangy sugar coating. Their familiar bottle shape makes them instantly understandable, which is useful when the purchasing decision is being made from the opposite side of a pick and mix display.

The wider Barratt range can also include fizzy dummies, Wham belts, tangy rockets, sour mixes and other products designed for customers who consider ordinary sweetness insufficiently eventful.

Foam, Jelly and Traditional Barratt Sweets

Barratt’s foam and jelly selection includes Bumper Bananas, Flumps, Milk Teeth, pink and white hearts, jelly beans, cola bottles and Dolly Mix. These products provide contrasting colours, shapes and textures for a varied confectionery display.

Foam sweets offer a light, soft bite, while jelly lines provide a denser chew. Mixed together, they create the visual variety expected from a traditional sweet shop or pick and mix counter.

Barratt Liquorice Sweets

For customers who prefer deeper and more distinctive flavours, the Barratt range includes liquorice sticks, liquorice wands, Catherine Wheels and jelly buttons traditionally known as Spogs.

Liquorice has never attempted to be universally agreeable. That is part of its appeal: the people who love it tend to know precisely what they want and are rarely distracted by a strawberry gummy on the neighbouring shelf.

Bulk Barratt Sweets and Retail-Ready Packs

Wholesale Barratt sweets are available in formats suited to different types of confectionery business:

• 2kg, 2.5kg and 3kg bulk bags for pick and mix displays, sweet jars and repacking.
• Count-line boxes containing individually wrapped chews, rolls, lollipops and sherbet products.
• Price-marked packs for convenience stores and clearly priced impulse displays.
• Retail-ready hanging bags that can move directly from the wholesale case to the shelf.
• Display boxes for counter sales, party suppliers and high-footfall retail locations.

This variety allows retailers to combine loose sweets with individually wrapped products and pre-packed lines rather than relying on a single selling format.

Why Retailers Stock Barratt

• Established recognition: a British confectionery name dating back to 1848.
• Retro appeal: products remembered by adults and still enjoyed by younger customers.
• Broad product choice: jelly, foam, fizzy, sherbet, liquorice and chewy sweets.
• Flexible wholesale formats: bulk bags, count lines, display boxes and price-marked packs.
• Strong merchandising potential: suitable for pick and mix, counter displays, party bags and online sweet selections.
• Familiar favourites: recognisable products that require little explanation at the point of sale.

Wholesale Barratt Sweets from HS Wholesale Sweets

HS Wholesale Sweets supplies Barratt as part of its wider British sweets and bulk confectionery ranges. Browse current availability and order for sweet shops, convenience stores, online retailers, market traders, event businesses and pick and mix displays.

Products, pack sizes and availability can change, so check the individual listings for current prices, ingredients, allergens and dietary information.

Bring Back a Favourite with Barratt

Stock the sweets customers recognise, remember and frequently intended to buy only one of. Explore the current range at HS Wholesale Sweets and add more than 175 years of British confectionery history to your shelves with Barratt.

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