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Building BTC’s Confectionery & Snacking Platform

15/3/2026

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Mustafa Farouq

Mustafa Farouq

Saudi Arabia’s confectionery and snacking market is becoming faster, more competitive, and more demanding, with greater expectations around availability, visibility, and speed of execution. This is a category where success depends less on conventional distribution and more on having the right route-to-market model, channel focus, and in-store execution discipline.

BTC has recently strengthened its portfolio with the addition of Adam Foods (Spain), Nabati (Indonesia), and Storck (Germany), expanding its presence across key impulse-driven categories. This reflects a deliberate direction to build greater depth in segments where execution quality, outlet reach, and point-of-sale presence have a direct impact on performance.

At the same time, BTC is evolving how it goes to market in these categories. This includes refining route-to-market models, sharpening channel and customer prioritization, strengthening in-store capabilities, and building a clearer understanding of the dynamics that shape performance across retail, wholesale, and impulse-led environments. The objective is to ensure products are consistently available, well-positioned, and supported where purchase decisions are made.

This direction is closely linked to BTC’s purpose of delivering quality moments of value by making sure products are present, visible, and relevant in the moments that matter most to shoppers and customers.

For brand owners, this means a more focused execution model and a partner that increasingly understands the specific demands of the category, with the discipline and market attention required to deliver sustainable in-market growth.

BTC continues to strengthen its capabilities in this space, with a clear ambition to build a more distinctive and effective confectionery and snacking platform over time.