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Merino Wool

Fail

Buyers convert on only 0.4% of searches, so Merino Wool is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 1,513 of 2,461 Fashion niches · −3 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£37K/yr419K searches / yr
90-day growth
-35.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
19%top-5 click share · 28 brands · 38 sellers

Flapen Score

Merino Wool against its category

The dotted line is the Fashion average. Past it, Merino Wool is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Merino Wool market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Merino Wool 419K times last year and spent an estimated £37K. The top 5 brands take 83% of clicks. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 0.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 419K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 0.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -35.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £37K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
419K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-35.9%
Conversion, latest week
0.4%
Market size, estimated
£37Ka year
Top search term
mountain warehouse mens128K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £20.82.

Listings sell for £20.82 on average, from £7.59 to £70.81. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 3K to 4K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At £20.82 that is £0 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£20.82inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.59–£70.81
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
3K–4K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
£0–£2K
Returns
1.9%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

97% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 93% ship with Prime. On an average day, 12.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #106 within Activewear. It carries 3,094 reviews at 4.37 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
97%
Prime listings
93%
Out of stock, average day
12.1%
Average rank
#106in Activewear
Average rating
4.37 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,094per listing
Listings tracked
134

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 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 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Merino Wool 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 23, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 19% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£733£1K£2K£3K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

28 falling

Sellers

38

Est. top-5 brand share

83%

Top 20: 98%

Est. top-5 click share

19%

Top 20: 43%

Open market

15%

  • Mountain Warehouse70%
  • Niorasen5%
  • Sandsuced3%
  • DANISH ENDURANCE3%
  • ANTSANG2%
  • SIMIYA1%
  • Open — no brand owns it (22 brands, 15%)

Demand

Merino Wool search demand

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

9K7KSpike '26DecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Jan, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.1× · 8 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Merino Wool search terms shoppers use

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

  • mountain warehouse mens128K/yr
  • mountain warehouse76K/yr
  • merino wool47K/yr
  • moutain warehouse15K/yr
  • mens wool socks29K/yr
  • mountain warehouse fleece12K/yr
  • 100% merino wool socks13K/yr
  • 100% wool socks19K/yr
  • mountain warehouse mens jackets16K/yr
  • mountain warehouses5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Merino Wool

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Warmth”
12%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
1.9%of orders come back
“Poor Quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”12% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Merino Wool 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