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Toilet Roll

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $16.0M a year here. But the top 5 brands take 94% of clicks, so Toilet Roll is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
54
54 / 100
Top 17% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +8 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£16.0M/yr8.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
58%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 127 sellers

Flapen Score

Toilet Roll against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Toilet Roll is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

54Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Toilet Roll market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Toilet Roll 8.8M times last year and spent an estimated £16.0M. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Flapen scores it 54 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 22.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 8.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 22.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £16.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
8.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.8%
Conversion, latest week
22.9%
Market size, estimated
£16.0Ma year
Peak month
November1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
toilet roll5.5M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.91.

Listings sell for £7.91 on average, from £2.06 to £22.35. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 80,000 to 100,000 of them. At £7.91 that is £633K to £791K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.91under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.06–£22.35
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
80,000–100,000
Revenue per listing a year
£633K–£791K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

73% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #197 within Kitchen Roll, Toilet Roll & Tissues. It carries 11,001 reviews at 4.52 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#197in Kitchen Roll, Toilet Roll & Tissues
Average rating
4.52 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
11,001per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

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

2 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 54 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Toilet Roll 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£799K£1.6M£2.4M£3.2M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

127

Est. top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

58%

Top 20: 98%

Open market

3%

  • Andrex37%
  • by Amazon33%
  • Velvet17%
  • Morrisons4%
  • Cushelle4%
  • Nicky3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)

Demand

Toilet Roll search demand

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

225K175KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Toilet Roll search terms shoppers use

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

  • toilet roll5.5M/yr
  • toilet paper949K/yr
  • toilet rolls600K/yr
  • andrex toilet rolls494K/yr
  • andrex195K/yr
  • loo roll178K/yr
  • toilet rolls bulk buy178K/yr
  • toilet tissue93K/yr
  • toilet roll 3 ply61K/yr
  • andrex toilet roll66K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Toilet Roll

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

39%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
19%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.1%of orders come back
“Average Quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”19% 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 Toilet Roll 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