Trends · data through September 2026

Bookstores in Leicester

Iceflower tracks 44 stores from 31 bookstore chains in Leicester.

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
31
Tracked stores
44
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 - -40.2%
  • WHSmith
  • Waterstones
  • Harper's Newshound
  • J Scattergood & Sons
  • Huncote News
  • Narborough General Store
  • Lutterworth News
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

44 tracked store locations in Leicester. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • WHSmith (10)
  • Waterstones (5)
  • Harper's Newshound (1)
  • J Scattergood & Sons (1)
  • Huncote News (1)
  • Narborough General Store (1)
  • Lutterworth News (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 W WHSmith logo WHSmith 10
  • 2 W Waterstones logo Waterstones 5
  • 3 H Harper's Newshound 1
  • 4 J J Scattergood & Sons 1
  • 5 H Huncote News 1
  • 6 N Narborough General Store 1
  • 7 L Lutterworth News 1
  • 8 C Coalville News and Off-licence 1
  • 9 J J C Mini Market 1
  • 10 S SMS News & Booze 1
  • 11 N Narborough Road Newsagents 1
  • 12 N News Shop 1
  • 13 S S&D Enterprise 1
  • 14 P Peartree Stores 1
  • 15 F Fosse Express 1
  • 16 C Corner News 1
  • 17 A Ajiv News 1
  • 18 J JJ News 1
  • 19 T Twins News 1
  • 20 B Benos Stores 1
  • 21 B B And S News 1
  • 22 K Keya News 1
  • 23 C Carillon News 1
  • 24 W Whetstone News 1
  • 25 S Shepshed News & Booze 1
  • 26 J Jacksons News 1
  • 27 J Jak Stationers 1
  • 28 B Blaby News And Off Licence 1
  • 29 C Coppice Stores 1
  • 30 A Asfordby News 1
  • 31 B Belgrave News 1

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