Chain · United Kingdom · data through September 2026

C Card Factory logo Card Factory

Iceflower tracks 908 Card Factory stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #1 of 495 tracked UK gift shop chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -6.3% over the last year.

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 stores
908
Regions
12
Category
Gift Shop
Category rank
#1

Growth

Card Factory against its category

The biggest tracked UK gift shop chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Card Factory's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 C Card Factory logo Card Factory -6.3%
2 C Card city +6.1%
3 C Cardzone -4.1%
4 C Clintons logo Clintons -12.6%
5 M Menkind logo Menkind -21.2%
6 F Flying Tiger Copenhagen logo Flying Tiger Copenhagen -17.2%
7 S Smiggle logo Smiggle -14.3%
8 S Sharps Pixley logo Sharps Pixley -
9 C Cards Direct logo Cards Direct -
10 M Miniso logo Miniso +10.1%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 82.9 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

908 tracked Card Factory locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 114
  • North West 113
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 92
  • East of England 89
  • West Midlands 82
  • London 76
  • Scotland 74
  • South West 71
  • East Midlands 68
  • North East 57
  • Wales 51
  • Northern Ireland 20
  • Other 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at Card Factory

Tracked chains Card Factory customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

A ALDI logo ALDI 100
A Asda logo Asda 56
I Iceland logo Iceland 48
T The Works logo The Works 44
G Greggs logo Greggs 42
P Primark logo Primark 41
S Savers logo Savers 33
S Superdrug logo Superdrug 31

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