Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Middlesbrough and Stockton

Iceflower tracks 1,259 stores from 794 retail and consumer chains in Middlesbrough and Stockton. Budgens grew fastest over the last year, ahead of BP and Toolstation UK.

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
794
Tracked stores
1,259
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. Budgens and BP sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Budgens ▲6 +19.5%
2 B BP logo BP ▲1 +18.9%
3 T Toolstation UK ▲4 +17.4%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +17.3%
5 L Lidl logo Lidl ▲1 +14.7%
6 H Halfords ▲1 +14.0%
7 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲2 +11.3%
8 S Savers ▲1 +10.5%
9 S Superdrug logo Superdrug ▲1 +10.3%
10 O One Stop ▲1 +7.6%
11 E Esso - +7.4%
12 R River Island logo River Island ▲3 +4.1%
13 H Holland & Barrett ▲2 +2.9%
14 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲1 +1.8%
15 J JD Sports logo JD Sports - +1.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,259 tracked store locations in Middlesbrough and Stockton, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.