Trends · data through September 2026

Health & Beauty trends in Newcastle

Iceflower tracks 265 stores from 165 health & beauty chains in Newcastle. Vision Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Superdrug and Specsavers.

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
165
Tracked stores
265
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked health & beauty 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. Vision Express and Superdrug sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 V Vision Express logo Vision Express - +13.8%
2 S Superdrug logo Superdrug - +6.5%
3 S Specsavers logo Specsavers - +0.9%
4 B Blythman & Partners - -4.4%
5 T The Fragrance Shop logo The Fragrance Shop - -6.1%
6 B Boots logo Boots - -7.7%
7 H Holland & Barrett logo Holland & Barrett - -10.4%
8 F Fairmans Pharmacy - -18.3%
9 I Indigo Sun logo Indigo Sun - -18.4%
  • Pharmacy
  • Gym
  • Optician
  • Veterinarian
  • Beauty Salon
  • Sport Fitness Facility
  • Hair Salon
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

265 tracked store locations in Newcastle, colored by category.

  • Pharmacy (82)
  • Gym (21)
  • Optician (19)
  • Veterinarian (19)
  • Beauty Salon (14)
  • Sport Fitness Facility (14)
  • Hair Salon (11)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 B Boots logo Boots 35
  • 2 S Superdrug logo Superdrug 15
  • 3 S Specsavers logo Specsavers 14
  • 4 H Holland & Barrett logo Holland & Barrett 8
  • 5 W Well Pharmacy logo Well Pharmacy 6
  • 6 V Vision Express logo Vision Express 4
  • 7 F Fairmans Pharmacy 4
  • 8 K Kwik Tan logo Kwik Tan 4
  • 9 I Indigo Sun logo Indigo Sun 4
  • 10 B Blythman & Partners 3
  • 11 T The Fragrance Shop logo The Fragrance Shop 3
  • 12 K Kiko Milano logo Kiko Milano 2
  • 13 T The Body Shop logo The Body Shop 2
  • 14 Q Queen Elizabeth Hospital 2
  • 15 W Westway Veterinary Group 2
  • 16 C Consett Rugby Club 2
  • 17 E Eyebrow Gallery 2
  • 18 S Sally Beauty logo Sally Beauty 2
  • 19 T The Perfume Shop logo The Perfume Shop 2
  • 20 H Hotpod Yoga logo Hotpod Yoga 2
  • 21 M Morfose Barbers 2
  • 22 L Lush logo Lush 2
  • 23 T Tan and Glo 1
  • 24 S Stacey's Barbers 1
  • 25 S Sab's Men's Hair Designs 1
  • 26 G Gateshead Leisure Centre 1
  • 27 S Stanley Pharmacy 1
  • 28 S St Oswald's Hospice logo St Oswald's Hospice 1
  • 29 C Canny Lass Tattoo 1
  • 30 F Freeman Hospital 1
  • 31 W Walker Pharmacy 1
  • 32 S Soccerworld logo Soccerworld 1
  • 33 D Darlings Pharmacy 1
  • 34 C CentralChem Pharmacy 1
  • 35 T Tumble Gymnastics and Activity Centre 1
  • 36 B Bensham Pharmacy 1
  • 37 J Jarrow Gym 1
  • 38 H Hadrian Leisure Centre 1
  • 39 S Stanley Court 1
  • 40 H Hawthorn House 1
  • 41 Z Zagros Barbers 1
  • 42 B Brow Wow 1
  • 43 C Cramlington Hub 1
  • 44 P Ponteland Road Pharmacy 1
  • 45 P Powerleague 1
  • 46 A Aura Beauty 1
  • 47 D Dipton Surgery 1
  • 48 B Blue Blood 1
  • 49 F Front Street Barbers 1
  • 50 B BattleKart Gateshead logo BattleKart Gateshead 1

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