Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

T The Kiosk

Iceflower tracks 13 The Kiosk stores across 7 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #4 of 1,018 tracked UK bookstores chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +13.6% 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
13
Regions
7
Category
Bookstore
Category rank
#4

Growth

The Kiosk against its category

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

# Chain YoY share
1 W WHSmith logo WHSmith -2.3%
2 W Waterstones logo Waterstones +8.2%
3 F Forbidden Planet -
4 T The Kiosk +13.6%
5 T Travelling Man -
6 H Havant -4.2%
7 N News 24 -15.0%
8 S Sackville News -33.3%
9 T The Paper Shop +9.0%
10 B B P -

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 121.7 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

13 tracked The Kiosk locations across 7 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • East of England 3
  • London 3
  • South East 2
  • Northern Ireland 1
  • Scotland 1
  • South West 1
  • Wales 1
  • Other 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at The Kiosk

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

K Kenny's 100
Y YO! Antrim Massereene Tesco Kiosk 82
C Centra logo Centra 52
H Hope365 Antrim 46
S SuperValu 31
M Mace logo Mace 26
S SPAR 11
M Maxol 8

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