Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 254,021 stores from 130,125 retail and consumer chains in the United Kingdom. Space NK grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Uniqlo and Morrisons Petrol Station.

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
130,125
Tracked stores
254,021
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. Space NK and Uniqlo sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Space NK logo Space NK ▲12 +19.8%
2 U Uniqlo logo Uniqlo ▲8 +19.4%
3 M Morrisons Petrol Station logo Morrisons Petrol Station ▲7 +18.0%
4 L LEGO logo LEGO ▲12 +18.0%
5 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters ▲7 +17.5%
6 M Morrisons logo Morrisons ▲1 +17.2%
7 C Cineworld logo Cineworld ▲8 +16.9%
8 G GSF Car Parts logo GSF Car Parts ▲14 +16.6%
9 D Deichmann logo Deichmann ▲15 +15.6%
10 A Arnold Clark logo Arnold Clark ▲10 +15.4%
11 B Budgens logo Budgens ▲15 +15.3%
12 M Medivet ▲10 +14.6%
13 P Post Office logo Post Office ▲7 +14.6%
14 P Premier logo Premier ▲5 +14.1%
15 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger ▲5 +13.3%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 254,021 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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