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Thorntons Toffee

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But the top 5 brands take 94% of clicks, so Thorntons Toffee is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
50
50 / 100
Top 31% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +4 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£112K/yr160K searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
58%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 41 sellers

Flapen Score

Thorntons Toffee against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Thorntons Toffee is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

50Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Thorntons Toffee market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Thorntons Toffee 160K times last year and spent an estimated £112K. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 50 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 160K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £112K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
160K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.2%
Conversion, latest week
5.5%
Market size, estimated
£112Ka year
Peak month
December8.4× the quietest month
Top search term
thorntons toffee115K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £12.83.

Listings sell for £12.83 on average, from £2.18 to £23.39. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £12.83 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£12.83under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.18–£23.39
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

11% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 42% ship with Prime. On an average day, 15.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #3 within Confectionery. It carries 152 reviews at 4.01 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
11%
Prime listings
42%
Out of stock, average day
15.6%
Average rank
#3in Confectionery
Average rating
4.01 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
152per listing
Listings tracked
19

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 10 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

10 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 39 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
10
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
39 months

Products

Top Thorntons Toffee 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 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 58% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£4K£9K£13K£18K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)4 products missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

41

Est. top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

58%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

3%

  • Thorntons69%
  • TNZ8%
  • SHANZA DEPARTMENTAL'S8%
  • Generic6%
  • Walkers Nonsuch3%
  • Experts Supplies3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 3%)

Demand

Thorntons Toffee search demand

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

13K8KHoliday '24Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26DecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 8.4×

Search terms

Top Thorntons Toffee search terms shoppers use

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

  • thorntons toffee115K/yr
  • thorntons special toffee13K/yr
  • thorntons toffee original11K/yr
  • thorntons chocolate covered toffee9K/yr
  • thornton toffee7K/yr
  • thorntons toffee box4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Thorntons Toffee

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

53%of positive reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
26%of negative reviews mention “Taste-Overall”
0.1%of orders come back
“Takes me back to when I was a kid in the late 1940 same creamy taste when I get low i order another two trays nothing can touch them”
A buyer, on “Taste-Overall”26% 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 Thorntons Toffee 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