Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Birmingham

Iceflower tracks 956 stores from 533 retail chains in Birmingham. Schuh grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Currys and Sense.

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
533
Tracked stores
956
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. Schuh and Currys sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Schuh logo Schuh ▲1 +11.1%
2 C Currys logo Currys ▲2 +10.5%
3 S Sense logo Sense ▲3 +10.4%
4 T The Range logo The Range - +8.0%
5 N Nike logo Nike - +7.7%
6 T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx ▲1 +6.8%
7 S Shoe Zone logo Shoe Zone ▲1 +6.0%
8 H Home Bargains - +5.0%
9 S Savers logo Savers - +4.8%
10 R River Island logo River Island ▲1 +4.4%
11 C CeX logo CeX ▲1 +2.5%
12 T Toolstation UK logo Toolstation UK ▲5 +2.1%
13 W Waterstones logo Waterstones ▲2 +0.8%
14 S Sports Direct logo Sports Direct - +0.4%
15 P Pandora logo Pandora ▼1 -0.3%

Store footprint

Store map

956 tracked store locations in Birmingham, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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