Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 39,045 stores from 14,103 retail chains in the United Kingdom. Apple Store grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dunnes Stores and F. Hinds.

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 chains
14,103
Tracked stores
39,045
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Apple Store and Dunnes Stores sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Apple Store logo Apple Store ▲5 +17.4%
2 D Dunnes Stores logo Dunnes Stores ▲11 +16.8%
3 F F. Hinds logo F. Hinds ▲14 +16.8%
4 A Accessorize logo Accessorize ▲13 +16.2%
5 U Uniqlo logo Uniqlo ▲4 +16.2%
6 S Søstrene Grene logo Søstrene Grene ▲8 +15.0%
7 L Lacoste logo Lacoste ▲10 +14.9%
8 L LEGO logo LEGO ▲6 +14.9%
9 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters ▲7 +14.4%
10 C COS logo COS ▲13 +14.4%
11 S Squire's Garden Centres logo Squire's Garden Centres ▲11 +14.1%
12 T Tommy Hilfiger logo Tommy Hilfiger ▲7 +13.7%
13 K Kurt Geiger logo Kurt Geiger ▲9 +12.5%
14 D Deichmann logo Deichmann ▲7 +12.5%
15 S Swarovski logo Swarovski ▲14 +12.3%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 39,045 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.

Working in fashion, apparel and footwear? See consumer transaction data for fashion, apparel and footwear →