Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Birmingham

Iceflower tracks 6,343 stores from 4,129 retail and consumer chains in Birmingham. Vision Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Schuh and Odeon.

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
4,129
Tracked stores
6,343
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. Vision Express and Schuh sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 V Vision Express logo Vision Express ▲4 +14.5%
2 S Schuh logo Schuh ▲6 +14.3%
3 O Odeon logo Odeon ▲8 +14.2%
4 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲8 +14.0%
5 C Currys logo Currys ▲4 +13.8%
6 H Holland & Barrett logo Holland & Barrett ▲5 +11.7%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▲1 +11.6%
8 L Lifestyle Express ▲7 +11.3%
9 T The Range logo The Range ▲1 +11.1%
10 S Shell logo Shell ▲3 +10.9%
11 N Nike logo Nike ▲2 +10.8%
12 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger ▲4 +10.8%
13 M Morrisons logo Morrisons - +10.2%
14 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲6 +10.1%
15 T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx ▲3 +9.9%

Store footprint

Store map

6,343 tracked store locations in Birmingham, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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