Trends · data through September 2026

Bookstores in Leeds

Iceflower tracks 33 stores from 28 bookstore chains in Leeds.

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
28
Tracked stores
33
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked bookstore 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.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W WHSmith logo WHSmith - -8.8%
  • WHSmith
  • Waterstones
  • Indigo
  • Travelling Man
  • C And B News
  • Scribbler Cards Leeds
  • Lingfield News
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

33 tracked store locations in Leeds. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • WHSmith (6)
  • Waterstones (1)
  • Indigo (1)
  • Travelling Man (1)
  • C And B News (1)
  • Scribbler Cards Leeds (1)
  • Lingfield News (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 W WHSmith logo WHSmith 6
  • 2 W Waterstones logo Waterstones 1
  • 3 I Indigo logo Indigo 1
  • 4 T Travelling Man logo Travelling Man 1
  • 5 C C And B News 1
  • 6 S Scribbler Cards Leeds 1
  • 7 L Lingfield News 1
  • 8 K Kirkstall Newsgents 1
  • 9 B Bucharest Magazin 1
  • 10 W Wrenbeck News 1
  • 11 B Bahia News 1
  • 12 B Bridge End News 1
  • 13 C Cottingley Newsagents 1
  • 14 B Brooks News 1
  • 15 G Gateways News 1
  • 16 S Slaid Hill Newsagents 1
  • 17 T Turners Newsagents 1
  • 18 T The Bookshop on the Square 1
  • 19 S Sholebroke News 1
  • 20 H Harehills News 1
  • 21 T The Little Bookshop 1
  • 22 S Stop Press Newsagents 1
  • 23 E East Park News 1
  • 24 S Sancta Bookshop Cafe 1
  • 25 U Ullswater Newsagents 1
  • 26 D Daily News 1
  • 27 S Sonigra News 1
  • 28 K Kirkgate News 1

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