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Paper Towels

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -21.7% this quarter, so Paper Towels is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
62
62 / 100
Top 7% of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · +13 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£1.4M/yr626K searches / yr
90-day growth
-21.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
49%top-5 click share · 19 brands · 141 sellers

Flapen Score

Paper Towels against its category

The dotted line is the Business, Industry & Science average. Past it, Paper Towels is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

62Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Paper Towels market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Paper Towels 626K times last year and spent an estimated £1.4M. The top 5 brands take 65% of clicks. Flapen scores it 62 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 18.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 626K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 18.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -21.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.4M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
626K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-21.7%
Conversion, latest week
18.5%
Market size, estimated
£1.4Ma year
Peak month
September1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
paper towels310K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £12.44.

Listings sell for £12.44 on average, from £1.15 to £24.53. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 100K to 125K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £12.44 that is £37K to £50K a year per listing.

Average price
£12.44under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.15–£24.53
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
100K–125K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£37K–£50K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

84% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 72% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #67 within Janitorial & Sanitation Supplies. It carries 6,452 reviews at 4.40 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
84%
Prime listings
72%
Out of stock, average day
0.6%
Average rank
#67in Janitorial & Sanitation Supplies
Average rating
4.40 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,452per listing
Listings tracked
32

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 60 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
60 months

Products

Top Paper Towels products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 21, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 49% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£58K£115K£173K£230K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

19 falling

Sellers

141

Est. top-5 brand share

65%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

49%

Top 20: 88%

Open market

29%

  • by Amazon21%
  • AmazonCommercial15%
  • Paper Hand Towels13%
  • Scott10%
  • PLENTY7%
  • Regina6%

Demand

Paper Towels search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

15K10KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Prime Day '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Paper Towels search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • paper towels310K/yr
  • paper towel65K/yr
  • paper hand towels67K/yr
  • z fold paper towels26K/yr
  • paper towels for dispenser16K/yr
  • disposable hand towels16K/yr
  • hand paper towels33K/yr
  • paper hand towels for dispenser14K/yr
  • hand towels disposable27K/yr
  • paper hand towels for bathroom9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Paper Towels

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

29%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
21%of negative reviews mention “Thickness”
0.1%of orders come back
“My toilet paper is thicker than this”
A buyer, on “Thickness”21% of negative reviews mention the same topic

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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Paper Towels questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data