Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

R Red Lion

Iceflower tracks 75 Red Lion stores across 10 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #12 of 9,629 tracked UK pubs chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +0.4% 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
75
Regions
10
Category
Pub
Category rank
#12

Growth

Red Lion against its category

The biggest tracked UK pubs 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 Red Lion's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 S Sovereigns -
2 T The Red Lion +2.7%
3 B Brewers Fayre logo Brewers Fayre -22.3%
4 E Epworth House -
5 O O'Neill's +6.3%
6 W Wetherspoon logo Wetherspoon -0.5%
7 T The Royal Oak +10.1%
8 Y YO! Waltham Abbey Tesco Kiosk -8.4%
9 T The Crown -4.5%
10 T The Ship Inn -2.3%
12 R Red Lion +0.4%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 91.6 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

75 tracked Red Lion locations across 10 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 15
  • North West 13
  • West Midlands 13
  • East Midlands 9
  • East of England 6
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 6
  • London 5
  • Wales 5
  • South West 2
  • North East 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at Red Lion

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

S Sainsbury's Fuel 100
T Travelodge logo Travelodge 57
A ALDI logo ALDI 49
E Esso 47
G Greggs logo Greggs 32

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