Chain · United Kingdom · data through September 2026

T The Black Lion

Iceflower tracks 25 The Black Lion stores across 8 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #149 of 16,710 tracked UK bars, pubs & breweries by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -16.1% 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
25
Regions
8
Category
Bars, Pubs & Breweries
Category rank
#149

Growth

The Black Lion against its category

The biggest tracked UK bars, pubs & breweries 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 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 E Epworth House -
2 S Sovereigns -6.4%
3 T The Red Lion -2.6%
4 S Slug and Lettuce logo Slug and Lettuce +6.7%
5 T The Ivy +11.1%
6 O O'Neill's logo O'Neill's -0.1%
7 T The Royal Oak +5.4%
8 W Wetherspoon logo Wetherspoon +3.2%
9 Y YO! Waltham Abbey Tesco Kiosk -8.9%
10 T The White Horse +7.0%
149 T The Black Lion -16.1%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 84.4 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

25 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
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 2
  • East Midlands 1
  • North West 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 81
S Southern Railway logo Southern Railway 9

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