Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 202,116 stores from 97,591 retail and consumer chains in the United Kingdom. Urban Outfitters grew fastest over the last year, ahead of GSF Car Parts and GAIL's.

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
97,591
Tracked stores
202,116
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. Urban Outfitters and GSF Car Parts sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters ▲13 +19.9%
2 G GSF Car Parts ▲14 +19.4%
3 G GAIL's ▲14 +19.3%
4 L Londis ▲5 +18.2%
5 B bp Pulse ▲6 +17.7%
6 S Skechers ▲17 +17.4%
7 B Booker Wholesale ▲17 +16.8%
8 V Vue ▲16 +13.8%
9 P Poundstretcher ▲17 +13.7%
10 C Card Factory ▲6 +12.6%
11 L LEGO logo LEGO ▲8 +12.3%
12 A Apcoa ▲10 +12.0%
13 T The Range ▲4 +10.4%
14 A Apple Store ▲5 +9.8%
15 F Farmfoods ▲3 +9.5%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 202,116 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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