Trends · data through September 2026

Outdoor Apparel & Gear in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 37 stores from 13 outdoor apparel & gear chains in North Carolina. Columbia Sportswear Company grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Great Outdoor Provision Co. and The North Face.

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
13
Tracked stores
37
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked outdoor apparel & gear 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. Columbia Sportswear Company and Great Outdoor Provision Co. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Columbia Sportswear Company logo Columbia Sportswear Company ▲1 +10.5%
2 G Great Outdoor Provision Co. - +7.1%
3 T The North Face logo The North Face - -26.1%
4 E Eddie Bauer logo Eddie Bauer ▼1 -37.2%
  • Great Outdoor Provision Co.
  • Salt Coast Outfitters
  • Columbia Sportswear Company
  • Ocean Outfitters
  • Sun & Ski Sports
  • Eddie Bauer
  • The North Face
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

37 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Great Outdoor Provision Co. (7)
  • Salt Coast Outfitters (3)
  • Columbia Sportswear Company (5)
  • Ocean Outfitters (2)
  • Sun & Ski Sports (2)
  • Eddie Bauer (6)
  • The North Face (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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