Chain · United Kingdom · data through September 2026

T The Black Swan

Iceflower tracks 27 The Black Swan stores across 7 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #132 of 16,710 tracked UK bars, pubs & breweries by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +16.4% 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
27
Regions
7
Category
Bars, Pubs & Breweries
Category rank
#132

Growth

The Black Swan 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 Swan'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%
132 T The Black Swan +16.4%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 122.0 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

27 tracked The Black Swan locations across 7 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • East Midlands 7
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 6
  • South East 4
  • South West 4
  • West Midlands 4
  • East of England 1
  • North West 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at The Black Swan

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

C Central Co-op logo Central Co-op 88
T Travelodge logo Travelodge 49
A ALDI logo ALDI 27
C Co-op Food logo Co-op Food 17

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