Chain · United Kingdom · data through September 2026

R Red Lion

Iceflower tracks 90 Red Lion stores across 10 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #16 of 16,710 tracked UK bars, pubs & breweries by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -4.7% 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
90
Regions
10
Category
Bars, Pubs & Breweries
Category rank
#16

Growth

Red Lion against its category

The biggest tracked UK bars, pubs & breweries 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 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 E Epworth House -
2 S Sovereigns -6.4%
3 T The Red Lion -2.6%
4 S Slug and Lettuce logo Slug and Lettuce +6.7%
5 T The Ivy +11.1%
6 O O'Neill's logo O'Neill's -0.1%
7 T The Royal Oak +5.4%
8 W Wetherspoon logo Wetherspoon +3.2%
9 Y YO! Waltham Abbey Tesco Kiosk -8.9%
10 T The White Horse +7.0%
16 R Red Lion -4.7%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 98.9 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

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

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 17
  • West Midlands 15
  • North West 13
  • East Midlands 10
  • East of England 9
  • Wales 9
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 9
  • London 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 logo Sainsbury's Fuel 100
T Travelodge logo Travelodge 57
A ALDI logo ALDI 45
E Esso logo Esso 36

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