Trends · data through July 2026

Pubs in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 17,075 stores from 9,629 pubs chains in the United Kingdom. The Nags Head grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The White House and The Kingfisher.

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
9,629
Tracked stores
17,075
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked pubs 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. The Nags Head and The White House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Nags Head ▲4 +18.9%
2 T The White House ▲30 +18.5%
3 T The Kingfisher ▲28 +17.7%
4 D Dog & Partridge ▲22 +16.8%
5 T The Millstone ▲8 +16.2%
6 T The Blue Bell ▲19 +16.1%
7 T The Lamb Inn ▲11 +15.1%
8 T The Church Inn - +14.7%
9 T The Greyhound Inn ▲17 +14.7%
10 V Victoria Hotel ▲3 +13.4%
11 T The Chequers Inn ▲20 +12.7%
12 T The Woolpack Inn ▲20 +12.6%
13 C Corner House ▲13 +12.5%
14 T The Stag ▲16 +12.4%
15 T The Dragon ▲15 +11.7%
  • Sovereigns
  • The Red Lion
  • Brewers Fayre
  • Epworth House
  • O'Neill's
  • Wetherspoon
  • The Royal Oak
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

17,075 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Sovereigns (1)
  • The Red Lion (209)
  • Brewers Fayre (109)
  • Epworth House (1)
  • O'Neill's (47)
  • Wetherspoon (61)
  • The Royal Oak (178)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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