Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked art craft hobby store 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. The Great Frame Up and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Great Frame Up | ▲3 | +9.1% |
| 2 | Michaels | - | +2.1% |
| 3 | Blick Art Materials | ▲1 | -3.2% |
| 4 | Paper Source | ▲1 | -6.6% |
| 5 | Chicago Costume | ▲2 | -7.8% |
| 6 | American Science & Surplus | ▼1 | -74.9% |
| 7 | The Gaming Goat | - | -82.6% |
| 8 | JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores | ▼6 | -100.0% |
- Hobby Lobby
- Michaels
- Blick Art Materials
- Color Me Mine
- Paper Source
- Pastimes
- Textile Discount Outlet
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
264 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 108 of the 264 stores (41%); 133 of the 147 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across Illinois.
- Hobby Lobby (27)
- Michaels (41)
- Blick Art Materials (3)
- Color Me Mine (9)
- Paper Source (10)
- Pastimes (1)
- Textile Discount Outlet (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Michaels 41
- 2 Hobby Lobby 27
- 3 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 21
- 4 Paper Source 10
- 5 Color Me Mine 9
- 6 Blick Art Materials 3
- 7 American Science & Surplus 3
- 8 The Gaming Goat 3
- 9 Chicago Costume 3
- 10 The Great Frame Up 3
- 11 The Painted Penguin 2
- 12 The WasteShed 2
- 13 Mickey's Linen 2
- 14 Wool and Company 2
- 15 Roberts Sewing Center 1
- 16 Art Corner Frames 1
- 17 Penguin Foot Pottery 1
- 18 Artists Frame Service 1
- 19 Stitching On State 1
- 20 Nick's Embroidery 1
- 21 Fox Valley Pottery 1
- 22 Fiber Friends Studio 1
- 23 a. favorite design 1
- 24 Bead In Hand 1
- 25 Cut It Out Scrapbook Supplies 1
- 26 AU Sports 1
- 27 EmbroidMe 1
- 28 Sew on Central 1
- 29 Clay Monet 1
- 30 Grade Plus Trade 1
- 31 Hawker Hobbies 1
- 32 The Backdrop 1
- 33 A Different Box of Crayons 1
- 34 Gemini Builds It 1
- 35 El Artesanal 1
- 36 knit1 1
- 37 Ron's Mundelein Hobbies 1
- 38 Tastebud Tours 1
- 39 Booming Acres 1
- 40 Piece By Piece 1
- 41 America's Best Train, Toy & Hobby Shop 1
- 42 Thrown Elements Pottery 1
- 43 Thimbles Quilts 1
- 44 MD Trains 1
- 45 Chicago Fabric Yarn & Button Sales 1
- 46 Reprographics Imaging and Art Supplies 1
- 47 The Fabric Center 1
- 48 Embers + Apothecary 1
- 49 One Paper Place 1
- 50 CraftFancy 1
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