Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

B Blacks

Iceflower tracks 12 Blacks stores across 8 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #19 of 345 tracked UK sporting goods stores chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -43.4% over the last year.

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 stores
12
Regions
8
Category
Sporting Goods Store
Category rank
#19

Growth

Blacks against its category

The biggest tracked UK sporting goods stores chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Blacks's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 S Sports Direct -3.4%
2 G GO Outdoors logo GO Outdoors +3.3%
3 N Nike logo Nike -5.0%
4 D Decathlon logo Decathlon -7.3%
5 M Mountain Warehouse logo Mountain Warehouse -
6 A Angling Direct +14.4%
7 A American Golf +2.7%
8 T The North Face logo The North Face +0.1%
9 T Trespass -
10 A adidas logo adidas +11.2%
19 B Blacks -43.4%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 57.4 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

12 tracked Blacks locations across 8 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • London 2
  • North West 2
  • Scotland 2
  • South East 2
  • East Midlands 1
  • South West 1
  • West Midlands 1
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at Blacks

Tracked chains Blacks customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

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