Trends · data through July 2026

Electronics Stores in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 1,280 stores from 397 electronics stores chains in the United Kingdom. Mobile Plus grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Apple Store and Tech Tronex.

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
397
Tracked stores
1,280
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked electronics stores 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. Mobile Plus and Apple Store sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Mobile Plus - +15.1%
2 A Apple Store - +10.7%
3 T Tech Tronex - +10.3%
4 T Total E-Cig - +5.7%
5 E EE logo EE - +3.1%
6 C CeX - +2.0%
7 T Tesco Mobile - -0.9%
8 P Phone Store ▲1 -1.9%
9 C Currys - -3.0%
10 E Elect Tronex - -4.3%
11 T Three UK - -5.9%
12 B Best Buy logo Best Buy ▲1 -13.7%
13 G GAME ▲1 -19.2%
14 C Carphone Warehouse ▼1 -36.0%
15 P Phone & Vape ▼1 -39.5%
  • Tesco Mobile
  • Currys
  • Apple Store
  • CeX
  • Meadowhall
  • iSmart Cardiff
  • O2
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,280 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Tesco Mobile (170)
  • Currys (321)
  • Apple Store (31)
  • CeX (211)
  • Meadowhall (1)
  • iSmart Cardiff (1)
  • O2 (43)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Currys 321
  • 2 C CeX 211
  • 3 T Tesco Mobile 170
  • 4 O O2 43
  • 5 A Apple Store 31
  • 6 E EE logo EE 25
  • 7 T Three UK 15
  • 8 G GAME 15
  • 9 M Mobile Bitz 11
  • 10 I iCrack 8
  • 11 V Vodafone logo Vodafone 5
  • 12 T Tech Tronex 4
  • 13 M Mobile & Vape 3
  • 14 E Elect Tronex 3
  • 15 T Tech Experts 3
  • 16 T Topgift 3
  • 17 P Phone Store 3
  • 18 I InMotion 3
  • 19 P Phone & Vape 3
  • 20 B Best Buy logo Best Buy 3
  • 21 C Carphone Warehouse 3
  • 22 T Total E-Cig 3
  • 23 M Mobile Plus 3
  • 24 H Hughes 3
  • 25 I iTech 2
  • 26 I iMobile 2
  • 27 F Fone Xperts 2
  • 28 F Firestorm Games 2
  • 29 S Stop Shop 2
  • 30 A Atkinsons 2
  • 31 P Phone Stop 2
  • 32 T Tech Corner 2
  • 33 Y Yesss Electrical 2
  • 34 I iStore 2
  • 35 A Apple Watford 1
  • 36 T Telford Tech 1
  • 37 P Payphone 1
  • 38 V V and M 1
  • 39 I iSmart Cardiff 1
  • 40 I I Play N Talk 1
  • 41 C CGX Leigh 1
  • 42 F Fonextras 1
  • 43 C CM Communications 1
  • 44 B Best Buy Communications 1
  • 45 P Phone Lodge 1
  • 46 T Totton Phone Tech 1
  • 47 M Mefone 1
  • 48 T Talk n Tech 1
  • 49 T Tech Repairs Epsom 1
  • 50 T Touchlink Mobiles 1

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