The Top 10 Biggest Product Flops of All Time: From Apple’s Newton to Tempo’s Toilet Paper

Whether the Apple Newton, toilet paper from Tempo or the Ford Edsel: all of these products have one thing in common. They never made the breakthrough. In our weekly ranking, we present you the ten biggest product flops of all time.

Bringing new products to market has never been easy – especially in times of digital change. Many companies still hope for great success from creative ideas. But what if this doesn’t happen?

These are the biggest product flops of all time

We took a look at the past decades and identified ten products that could be among the biggest product flops. In the following ranking we present our results to you.

10th place: toilet paper from Tempo

For many people, the brand name Tempo has been synonymous with paper handkerchiefs for decades. But did you know that Tempo also briefly tried its hand as a toilet paper manufacturer in 2009? However, the product was, in the truest sense of the word, a mess and failed to catch on.

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