Growth
Cards Direct 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 Cards Direct's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
C
Card Factory
|
-6.3% |
| 2 | C Card city | +6.1% |
| 3 | C Cardzone | -4.1% |
| 4 |
C
Clintons
|
-12.6% |
| 5 |
M
Menkind
|
-21.2% |
| 6 |
F
Flying Tiger Copenhagen
|
-17.2% |
| 7 |
S
Smiggle
|
-14.3% |
| 8 |
S
Sharps Pixley
|
- |
| 9 |
C
Cards Direct
|
- |
| 10 |
M
Miniso
|
+10.1% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
60 tracked Cards Direct locations across 8 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.
Tracked stores by region
- South East 24
- East of England 14
- East Midlands 5
- South West 5
- London 4
- West Midlands 3
- Yorkshire and The Humber 3
- Wales 2
Customer overlap
Who shops at Cards Direct
Tracked chains Cards Direct customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
T
Tesco Extra
86
Tesco Extra
86
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