Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

T The Black Lion

Iceflower tracks 24 The Black Lion stores across 8 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #70 of 9,629 tracked UK pubs chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -4.6% 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
24
Regions
8
Category
Pub
Category rank
#70

Growth

The Black Lion against its category

The biggest tracked UK pubs 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 The Black Lion's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 S Sovereigns -
2 T The Red Lion +2.7%
3 B Brewers Fayre logo Brewers Fayre -22.3%
4 E Epworth House -
5 O O'Neill's +6.3%
6 W Wetherspoon logo Wetherspoon -0.5%
7 T The Royal Oak +10.1%
8 Y YO! Waltham Abbey Tesco Kiosk -8.4%
9 T The Crown -4.5%
10 T The Ship Inn -2.3%
70 T The Black Lion -4.6%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 91.7 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

24 tracked The Black Lion locations across 8 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • London 5
  • Wales 5
  • East of England 4
  • South East 4
  • West Midlands 3
  • East Midlands 1
  • North West 1
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at The Black Lion

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

B Brighton and Hove Bus control and help centre 100
B Brighton & Hove Cricket Club 85
S Southern Railway 11

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