Trends · data through July 2026

Bakeries in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 5,666 stores from 1,494 bakeries chains in the United Kingdom. Karpaty Bakery grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cakes & Bakes and The Flour Pot Bakery.

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
1,494
Tracked stores
5,666
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked bakeries 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. Karpaty Bakery and Cakes & Bakes sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Karpaty Bakery ▲5 +18.3%
2 C Cakes & Bakes ▲3 +18.2%
3 T The Flour Pot Bakery ▲8 +17.5%
4 C Cornish Bakery ▲2 +16.8%
5 N Nafees Bakers & Sweets ▲3 +14.8%
6 S Somerset Bakehouse ▲6 +14.4%
7 N Newlands Home Bakery ▲5 +14.0%
8 C Coughlans Bakery ▲3 +13.2%
9 K KNEAD Bakery ▲5 +12.9%
10 C Cake House Bakery ▲3 +12.7%
11 C Cake Box logo Cake Box - +12.5%
12 P Patisserie Mark Bennett ▲4 +11.5%
13 S Stephens Bakery ▲3 +10.8%
14 G GAIL's - +10.1%
15 T The Cornish Bakery ▲2 +9.7%
  • Greggs
  • GAIL's
  • Cake Box
  • MOR Bakery & Kitchen
  • Simmons Bakers
  • Bayne's
  • Birds Bakery
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

5,666 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Greggs (2,543)
  • GAIL's (167)
  • Cake Box (174)
  • MOR Bakery & Kitchen (1)
  • Simmons Bakers (41)
  • Bayne's (55)
  • Birds Bakery (62)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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