Trends · data through September 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Middlesbrough and Stockton

Iceflower tracks 1,598 stores from 1,062 retail and consumer chains in Middlesbrough and Stockton. The Ship Inn grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's and Market Cross Jewellers.

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
1,062
Tracked stores
1,598
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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 Ship Inn and McDonald's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Ship Inn ▲1 +19.9%
2 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▲1 +17.9%
3 M Market Cross Jewellers logo Market Cross Jewellers ▲4 +16.8%
4 H Holland & Barrett logo Holland & Barrett ▲4 +15.4%
5 E Esso logo Esso ▲3 +13.2%
6 P Premier logo Premier ▲3 +12.3%
7 B Best-one logo Best-one ▲3 +12.3%
8 H Home Bargains ▲2 +8.6%
9 G Greggs logo Greggs ▲1 +8.1%
10 S SPAR logo SPAR ▲2 +8.0%
11 S Subway logo Subway ▲3 +7.9%
12 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food ▲1 +7.9%
13 B Boots logo Boots - +7.8%
14 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲4 +7.6%
15 S Sainsbury's logo Sainsbury's - +7.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,598 tracked store locations in Middlesbrough and Stockton, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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