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Custard Creams

Fail

The top 5 products take 100% of clicks, so Custard Creams is a Fail.

Flapen Score
34
34 / 100
Ranks 2,777 of 2,976 Grocery niches · −12 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£136K/yr108K searches / yr
90-day growth
-3.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
100%top-5 click share · 4 brands · 11 sellers

Flapen Score

Custard Creams against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Custard Creams is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

34Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Custard Creams market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Custard Creams 108K times last year and spent an estimated £136K. All 4 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 34 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 25.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 108K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 25.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -3.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £136K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
108K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-3.4%
Conversion, latest week
25.8%
Market size, estimated
£136Ka year
Peak month
December1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
custard creams76K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.88.

Listings sell for £4.88 on average, from £0.73 to £11.03. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 8,000 to 10,000 of them. At £4.88 that is £39K to £49K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.88under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.73–£11.03
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
8,000–10,000
Revenue per listing a year
£39K–£49K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

20% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #35 within Bakery. It carries 1,484 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
20%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#35in Bakery
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,484per listing
Listings tracked
5

04 · Newcomers

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

1 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 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
50 months

Products

Top Custard Creams 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 100% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£20K£41K£61K£82K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

4 flat

Sellers

11

Est. top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Morrisons46%
  • McVitie's44%
  • The Silver Crane co.8%
  • Oerich3%

Demand

Custard Creams search demand

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

3K2KSpike '25JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Custard Creams search terms shoppers use

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

  • custard creams76K/yr
  • custard cream9K/yr
  • custard creams biscuits8K/yr
  • tasties4K/yr
  • tasties biscuits4K/yr
  • biscuits custard cream3K/yr
  • custard cream biscuits4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Custard Creams

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

27%of positive reviews mention “Gifting Purpose”
21%of negative reviews mention “Moist/Dry”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“biscuits dry & powdery”
A buyer, on “Moist/Dry”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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Custard Creams 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