Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in Middlesbrough and Stockton

Iceflower tracks 268 stores from 162 retail chains in Middlesbrough and Stockton. Market Cross Jewellers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Home Bargains and Screwfix.

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
162
Tracked stores
268
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. Market Cross Jewellers and Home Bargains sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Market Cross Jewellers logo Market Cross Jewellers ▲3 +17.7%
2 H Home Bargains - +9.4%
3 S Screwfix logo Screwfix ▲2 +8.5%
4 N Next logo Next ▲2 +6.7%
5 C Card Factory logo Card Factory ▲1 +5.0%
6 S Shoe Zone logo Shoe Zone - +4.4%
7 T The Works logo The Works - +3.8%
8 R River Island logo River Island - -1.2%
9 P Pets at Home logo Pets at Home ▲1 -1.3%
10 B B&M Stores logo B&M Stores - -7.0%
11 J JD Sports logo JD Sports - -8.4%
12 T Toolstation UK logo Toolstation UK ▲2 -11.3%
13 P Poundland logo Poundland ▼2 -13.7%
14 A Argos logo Argos ▼1 -18.5%
15 C CeX logo CeX - -33.3%
  • Discount Store
  • Discount Off-Price Stores
  • Gift Shop
  • Hardware Store
  • Home Improvement Center
  • Bookstore
  • Electronics Store
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

268 tracked store locations in Middlesbrough and Stockton, colored by category.

  • Discount Store (27)
  • Discount Off-Price Stores (20)
  • Gift Shop (17)
  • Hardware Store (16)
  • Home Improvement Center (14)
  • Bookstore (14)
  • Electronics Store (13)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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