Instant Stick: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.083 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.02 at volume. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $0.083 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.056 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.042 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.034 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.026 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.02 |
What moves the price
For instant stick, the drivers are fill weight, mesh material, string and tag, individually wrapped — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Published wholesale pricing for individual coffee sticks is sparse, so the banding is anchored to real B2B stick/sachet listings and then scaled by quantity where suppliers explicitly show bulk pack economics. The main cost drivers are fill weight, whether the stick is individually wrapped, and whether a string/tag tea-bag style construction is used; packaging-heavy formats price materially above plain instant coffee sachets. Realistic sourcing routes are UK/EU hospitality wholesalers for small-to-mid volumes and direct import/OEM packaging suppliers for the larger tiers, but the exact lead time varies too much by route to support a single published figure.
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