Trends · data through July 2026

Retail trends in Manchester

Iceflower tracks 1,314 stores from 663 retail chains in Manchester. Card Factory grew fastest over the last year, ahead of HMV and The Fragrance Shop.

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
663
Tracked stores
1,314
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. Card Factory and HMV sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Card Factory ▲2 +18.3%
2 H HMV logo HMV ▲5 +15.6%
3 T The Fragrance Shop ▲5 +10.7%
4 H H.Samuel logo H.Samuel ▲6 +10.0%
5 W Wickes logo Wickes ▲1 +6.5%
6 J JYSK UK ▲2 +6.4%
7 A American Golf ▲4 +5.7%
8 P Peacocks ▲3 +5.6%
9 T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx - +4.0%
10 W Waterstones logo Waterstones ▲1 +4.0%
11 C Currys - +3.4%
12 P Primark logo Primark - +2.7%
13 S Shoe Zone ▲2 +2.4%
14 B B&Q - +2.3%
15 S Simon Charles Auctioneers - +2.2%

Store footprint

Store map

1,314 tracked store locations in Manchester, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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