Cup Noodle
FailThe top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Cup Noodle is a Fail.
- Flapen Score
- 44 / 100Ranks 762 of 1,367 Lebensmittel & Getränke niches · −2 vs the category median of 4644
- Market size
- €75K/yr124K searches / yr
- 90-day growth
- -14.2%search demand this quarter
- Competition
- 54%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 26 sellers
Flapen Score
Cup Noodle against its category
The dotted line is the Lebensmittel & Getränke average. Past it, Cup Noodle is stronger. Inside it, weaker.
Market
The Cup Noodle market on Amazon at a glance
Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Cup Noodle 124K times last year and spent an estimated €75K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.
01 · Demand
An estimated 5.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.
Shoppers searched for this 124K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -14.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €75K a year.
- Searches, last 12 months
- 124K
- Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
- -14.2%
- Conversion, latest week
- 5.7%
- Market size, estimated
- €75Ka year
- Peak month
- November2.1× the quietest month
- Top search term
- cup noodles59K searches a year
02 · Price
A sale here is worth €10.65.
Listings sell for €10.65 on average, from €1.09 to €66.53. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At €10.65 that is €3K to €5K a year per listing.
- Average price
- €10.65under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
- Price range
- €1.09–€66.53
- Amazon Germany median price
- €18.99across 29,809 niches
- Units sold a year
- 13K–15K
- Units per listing a year
- 250–500
- Revenue per listing a year
- €3K–€5K
- Returns
- 0.1%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%
03 · Entry bar
The bar here is ads.
96% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #91 within Fertiggerichte. It carries 677 reviews at 4.48 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.
- Sponsored listings
- 96%
- Prime listings
- 96%
- Out of stock, average day
- 0.0%
- Average rank
- #91in Fertiggerichte
- Average rating
- 4.48 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
- Average reviews
- 677per listing
- Listings tracked
- 24
04 · Newcomers
0 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.
3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.
- Launched, last 12 months
- 3
- Successful launches
- 0Amazon's first-year sales bar
- Average brand age
- 52 months
Products
Top Cup Noodle products & what they sell for
Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.
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Competition
Competition: brands, sellers & click share
The top 5 products take 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.
Brands
7 falling
Sellers
26
Top-5 brand share
97%
Top 20: 100%
Top-5 click share
54%
Top 20: 95%
Open market
1%
- Brand 181%
- Brand 28%
- Brand 33%
- Brand 43%
- Brand 52%
- Brand 61%
- Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)
Demand
Cup Noodle search demand
Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.
Peak months: Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×
Search terms
Top Cup Noodle search terms shoppers use
The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.
- cup noodles59K/yr
- nissin cup noodles24K/yr
- instant nudeln cup20K/yr
- ramen cup7K/yr
- cup nudeln6K/yr
- cup ramen4K/yr
- noodle cup4K/yr
Reviews and returns
What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cup Noodle
We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.
“Schmeckt nicht”
Every topic
Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.
Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.
14 topics
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FAQ
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