Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

T The Malt Shovel

Iceflower tracks 18 The Malt Shovel stores across 7 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #131 of 9,629 tracked UK pubs chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +3.4% 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
18
Regions
7
Category
Pub
Category rank
#131

Growth

The Malt Shovel 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 The Malt Shovel'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%
131 T The Malt Shovel +3.4%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 92.4 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

18 tracked The Malt Shovel locations across 7 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • West Midlands 5
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 5
  • East Midlands 4
  • London 1
  • Scotland 1
  • South East 1
  • South West 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at The Malt Shovel

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

T The Crown logo The Crown 99
A Asda logo Asda 77
M M6 Toll Plaza 58
A ALDI logo ALDI 56
G Greggs logo Greggs 36

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