Trends · data through September 2026

Bookstores in Manchester

Iceflower tracks 108 stores from 70 bookstore chains in Manchester.

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: 70
Tracked stores: 108
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. Waterstones and WHSmith sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	W Waterstones	-	+15.9%
2	W WHSmith	-	-11.4%

WHSmith
Waterstones
Bridgeman News
House of Books and Friends
Marhaba Newsagent
Travelling Man
Price Wise
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

108 tracked store locations in Manchester. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

WHSmith (28)
Waterstones (10)
Bridgeman News (1)
House of Books and Friends (1)
Marhaba Newsagent (1)
Travelling Man (1)
Price Wise (1)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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