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Paper Plates

Maybe

An estimated 0.4% of orders come back. But prices span $1.86–$14.88, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Paper Plates is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 23% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +7 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£1.2M/yr1.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
+44.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
60%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 21 sellers

Flapen Score

Paper Plates against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Paper Plates is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Paper Plates market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Paper Plates 1.8M times last year and spent an estimated £1.2M. The top 5 brands take 80% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +44.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.2M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+44.3%
Conversion, latest week
9.8%
Market size, estimated
£1.2Ma year
Peak month
July1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
paper plates913K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.70.

Listings sell for £6.70 on average, from £1.86 to £14.88. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 150K to 200K a year. The average listing sells 8,000 to 10,000 of them. At £6.70 that is £54K to £67K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.70under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.86–£14.88
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
150K–200K
Units per listing a year
8,000–10,000
Revenue per listing a year
£54K–£67K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads.

91% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #13 within Disposable Tableware. It carries 1,050 reviews at 4.54 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
91%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
3.0%
Average rank
#13in Disposable Tableware
Average rating
4.54 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,050per listing
Listings tracked
23

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
34 months

Products

Top Paper Plates 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 27, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 60% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£120K£240K£360K£480K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

16 falling

Sellers

21

Est. top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

60%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

18%

  • G4GADGET34%
  • 1ABOVE23%
  • Vivo Technologies12%
  • Talking Tables6%
  • Ask Packaging4%
  • CATERPACK BY ROBINSON YOUNG3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (10 brands, 18%)

Demand

Paper Plates search demand

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

50K30KHoliday '24Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Paper Plates search terms shoppers use

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

  • paper plates913K/yr
  • disposable plates332K/yr
  • party plates185K/yr
  • paper plates and napkins113K/yr
  • paper plates and cups42K/yr
  • disposable plates for parties39K/yr
  • paper plates 10031K/yr
  • white paper plates24K/yr
  • strong paper plates18K/yr
  • paper plates and bowls17K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Paper Plates

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

26%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
17%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“Poor quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”17% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Paper Plates 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