Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Belfast

Iceflower tracks 3,370 stores from 2,095 retail and consumer chains in Belfast. Translink grew fastest over the last year, ahead of ViVO and Co-op Food.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
2,095
Tracked stores
3,370
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Translink and ViVO sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Translink logo Translink ▲3 +19.2%
2 V ViVO ▲3 +18.2%
3 C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food ▲4 +16.1%
4 T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx ▲2 +15.6%
5 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲4 +15.0%
6 K KFC logo KFC ▲3 +13.2%
7 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's ▲2 +11.9%
8 S Sally Beauty logo Sally Beauty ▲5 +11.8%
9 E Eurospar Ni ▲1 +10.9%
10 H Harry Corry ▲1 +10.7%
11 L Lidl logo Lidl - +10.0%
12 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲6 +9.6%
13 M Mace ▲2 +9.4%
14 M Medicare Pharmacy ▲3 +9.2%
15 S SPAR logo SPAR - +8.9%

Store footprint

Store map

3,370 tracked store locations in Belfast, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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