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Bran Flakes

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Bran Flakes is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 2,140 of 2,976 Grocery niches · −5 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£141K/yr218K searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
79%top-5 click share · 3 brands · 44 sellers

Flapen Score

Bran Flakes against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Bran Flakes is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Bran Flakes market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Bran Flakes 218K times last year and spent an estimated £141K. All 3 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

15.8% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 218K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 15.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £141K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
218K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.7%
Conversion, latest week
15.8%
Market size, estimated
£141Ka year
Top search term
morrisons cereal67K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.10.

Listings sell for £4.10 on average, from £1.28 to £20.28. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 2,500 to 3,000 of them. At £4.10 that is £10K to £12K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.10under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.28–£20.28
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
2,500–3,000
Revenue per listing a year
£10K–£12K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

40% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 90% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #0 within Breakfast Cereal. It carries 367 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
40%
Prime listings
90%
Out of stock, average day
7.7%
Average rank
#0in Breakfast Cereal
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
367per listing
Listings tracked
10

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 1 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 1 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 70 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
70 months

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 79% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£21K£42K£63K£85K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

3 falling

Sellers

44

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Kellogg's67%
  • Morrisons28%
  • All-Bran5%

Demand

Bran Flakes search demand

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

4K3KSpike '26JanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: May · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8× · 7 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Bran Flakes search terms shoppers use

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

  • morrisons cereal67K/yr
  • bran flakes60K/yr
  • all bran28K/yr
  • all bran cereal13K/yr
  • cereal morrisons30K/yr
  • bran flakes no sugar6K/yr
  • all bran cereal original7K/yr
  • kelloggs all bran original4K/yr
  • all bran original3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Bran Flakes

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Flavor28%−0.13

The now grey sticks are jaw breakingly hard, utterly tasteless,. where is the malty flavour of Original All-Bran

almost entirely devoid of flavour

Awful recipe change

Taste-Overall23%−0.04

Tasted very milky rather than chocolately

Never was that tasty to be fair. without added nuts/fruit/seeds

They have totally ruined a 100year old recipe, everything about it has changed, taste, texture, taste

Ease Of Chewing/Swallowing15%−0.07

the raisins are very hard to eat

Since not being able to eat this anymore

Durability10%+0.31

torn at the buttom

Cooking Instructions10%−0.03

Did not fancy the new recipe

New recipe is disgusting

Love

Taste-Overall20%−0.04

Great taste, good addition to a fibre poor diet. and it really helps

Yummy breakfast cereal

Very tasty

Health Benefits-Overall19%+0.83

Good Healthy Breakfast for all

Excellent breakfast cereal,add banana and yoghurt,even better,thank you Kelloggs

Very healthy

Quality-Overall17%+1.72

Good product, good date

Excellent Product

Excellent quality, good price, its delivered to your door

Value For Money16%+0.65

Good value

these are a great price

Good price for the amount, supermarkets prices

Advertised Vs Actual Product10%+0.98

Perfect, as described

Exactly what it says on the packet

just what I needed

FAQ

Common Bran Flakes questions

Answered from the same tracked data.