Chain · United Kingdom · data through September 2026

T The Golden Lion

Iceflower tracks 48 The Golden Lion stores across 10 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #72 of 16,710 tracked UK bars, pubs & breweries by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +0.2% 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
48
Regions
10
Category
Bars, Pubs & Breweries
Category rank
#72

Growth

The Golden 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 The Golden 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%
72 T The Golden Lion +0.2%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 94.5 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

48 tracked The Golden Lion locations across 10 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South West 10
  • South East 8
  • North West 5
  • Wales 5
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 5
  • East of England 4
  • London 4
  • West Midlands 4
  • North East 2
  • Scotland 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at The Golden Lion

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

W Wrexham 100
R Red Lion 28
G Greggs logo Greggs 8
A ALDI logo ALDI 7

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