Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

F Forbidden Planet

Iceflower tracks 16 Forbidden Planet stores across 10 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #3 of 1,018 tracked UK bookstores chains by card spend.

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
16
Regions
10
Category
Bookstore
Category rank
#3

Growth

Forbidden Planet against its category

The biggest tracked UK bookstores 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 Forbidden Planet's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 W WHSmith logo WHSmith -2.3%
2 W Waterstones logo Waterstones +8.2%
3 F Forbidden Planet -
4 T The Kiosk +13.6%
5 T Travelling Man -
6 H Havant -4.2%
7 N News 24 -15.0%
8 S Sackville News -33.3%
9 T The Paper Shop +9.0%
10 B B P -

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 188.9 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

16 tracked Forbidden Planet locations across 10 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • East Midlands 3
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 3
  • North West 2
  • Scotland 2
  • London 1
  • North East 1
  • Northern Ireland 1
  • South East 1
  • Wales 1
  • West Midlands 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at Forbidden Planet

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

H HMV logo HMV 100
P Pop Corporation Ltd. 95
W Warhammer logo Warhammer 68
L LEGO logo LEGO 34
C Centra logo Centra 28
L Lush logo Lush 27
M Menkind logo Menkind 26

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