Trends · data through July 2026

Opticians in London

Iceflower tracks 102 stores from 11 opticians chains in London. Sunglass Hut grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Specsavers and Vision Express.

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
11
Tracked stores
102
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked opticians 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. Sunglass Hut and Specsavers sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sunglass Hut logo Sunglass Hut - +6.0%
2 S Specsavers - +3.7%
3 V Vision Express - -1.7%
  • Vision Express
  • Specsavers
  • Sunglass Hut
  • Boots Optician
  • Jimmy Fairly
  • Bermondsey Eye Art
  • Observatory The Opticians and Hearing Care
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

102 tracked store locations in London. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Vision Express (17)
  • Specsavers (72)
  • Sunglass Hut (5)
  • Boots Optician (1)
  • Jimmy Fairly (1)
  • Bermondsey Eye Art (1)
  • Observatory The Opticians and Hearing Care (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S Specsavers 72
  • 2 V Vision Express 17
  • 3 S Sunglass Hut logo Sunglass Hut 5
  • 4 B Boots Optician 1
  • 5 J Jimmy Fairly 1
  • 6 B Bermondsey Eye Art 1
  • 7 O Observatory The Opticians and Hearing Care 1
  • 8 C Couco 1
  • 9 F Finlay 1
  • 10 O OPTIX at Broadgate 1
  • 11 G Green Lanes Eyecare 1

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