Trends · data through September 2026

Bars, Pubs & Breweries in Manchester

Iceflower tracks 1,479 stores from 1,235 bars, pubs & breweries in Manchester. The Royal Oak grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Bulls Head and The New Inn.

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
1,235
Tracked stores
1,479
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked bars, pubs & breweries

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 Royal Oak and The Bulls Head sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Royal Oak ▲2 +19.5%
2 T The Bulls Head ▲1 +18.9%
3 T The New Inn ▲3 +16.2%
4 H Hare & Hounds ▲2 +14.4%
5 R Royal Oak ▲1 +13.4%
6 T The Wheatsheaf ▲2 +10.7%
7 T The White Lion - +10.4%
8 D Dog & Partridge ▲2 +8.2%
9 T The Rising Sun ▲1 +7.7%
10 B Bulls Head ▲2 +7.2%
11 T The Alchemist logo The Alchemist - +2.4%
12 W Wetherspoon logo Wetherspoon - +2.3%
13 T The Unicorn ▲2 +1.8%
14 T The Farmers Arms - +0.3%
15 A Archie's logo Archie's - -0.4%
  • Albert's Schloss
  • The Ivy Spinningfields
  • Slug and Lettuce
  • Archie's
  • The Alchemist
  • Dukes 92
  • Red Lion
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,479 tracked store locations in Manchester. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Albert's Schloss (1)
  • The Ivy Spinningfields (1)
  • Slug and Lettuce (6)
  • Archie's (7)
  • The Alchemist (3)
  • Dukes 92 (1)
  • Red Lion (7)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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