Trends · data through July 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City

Iceflower tracks 1,039 stores from 702 retail and consumer chains in Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City. Esso grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Caffè Nero and Starbucks.

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
702
Tracked stores
1,039
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. Esso and Caffè Nero sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E Esso ▲2 +19.6%
2 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲1 +18.2%
3 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲5 +17.4%
4 T Toolstation UK - +14.1%
5 T The Red Lion ▲2 +12.9%
6 H Halfords ▲5 +8.9%
7 A ALDI logo ALDI ▲1 +7.5%
8 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲4 +6.0%
9 S Subway logo Subway ▲3 +5.9%
10 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲4 +4.9%
11 O One Stop ▲1 +4.7%
12 N Nisa Local logo Nisa Local ▲3 +3.7%
13 S Specsavers ▲1 +3.5%
14 I Iceland - +3.3%
15 T The Works ▼1 +3.2%

Store footprint

Store map

1,039 tracked store locations in Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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