Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Newcastle

Iceflower tracks 2,753 stores from 1,697 retail and consumer chains in Newcastle. Farmfoods grew fastest over the last year, ahead of CeX and Caffè Nero.

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
1,697
Tracked stores
2,753
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. Farmfoods and CeX sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Farmfoods ▲7 +18.0%
2 C CeX ▲5 +16.5%
3 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲3 +15.5%
4 E Esso ▲7 +14.1%
5 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲3 +11.7%
6 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local ▲1 +9.1%
7 S Sambuca ▲2 +8.9%
8 I Indigo Sun ▲2 +8.8%
9 J JD Sports logo JD Sports ▲1 +7.8%
10 S Subway logo Subway ▲2 +6.2%
11 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲1 +5.9%
12 H Halfords ▲5 +5.7%
13 G Greggs logo Greggs - +5.1%
14 M M&S Simply Food logo M&S Simply Food - +4.9%
15 B Boots logo Boots - +4.6%

Store footprint

Store map

2,753 tracked store locations in Newcastle, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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