Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Durham and Bishop Auckland

Iceflower tracks 126 stores from 91 retail chains in Durham and Bishop Auckland. Card Factory grew fastest over the last year, ahead of B&M Stores and Boyes.

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
91
Tracked stores
126
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Card Factory and B&M Stores sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Card Factory logo Card Factory - +13.5%
2 B B&M Stores logo B&M Stores - +10.1%
3 B Boyes logo Boyes - +4.8%
4 H Home Bargains - +3.7%
5 S Savers logo Savers ▲2 +2.4%
6 N New Look logo New Look - -8.3%
7 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▼1 -11.0%
8 P Poundland logo Poundland ▼1 -16.3%
9 S Sports Direct logo Sports Direct - -36.8%
  • Discount Store
  • Bookstore
  • Pet Store
  • Discount Off-Price Stores
  • Hardware Store
  • Gift Shop
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

126 tracked store locations in Durham and Bishop Auckland, colored by category.

  • Discount Store (13)
  • Bookstore (11)
  • Pet Store (11)
  • Discount Off-Price Stores (11)
  • Hardware Store (9)
  • Gift Shop (6)
  • Home Improvement Center (6)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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