Trends · data through September 2026

Restaurant Supply & Cash-And-Carry in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 108 stores from 12 restaurant supply & cash-and-carry chains in the United Kingdom. JJ Food Service grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Nisbets Catering Equipment and Bestway Wholesale.

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 chains
12
Tracked stores
108
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked restaurant supply & cash-and-carry chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. JJ Food Service and Nisbets Catering Equipment sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J JJ Food Service logo JJ Food Service - +0.5%
2 N Nisbets Catering Equipment logo Nisbets Catering Equipment - -8.1%
3 B Bestway Wholesale logo Bestway Wholesale - -16.6%
  • Bestway Wholesale
  • Booker Wholesale
  • Parfetts
  • United Wholesale Grocers Limited
  • JJ Food Service
  • B.B. Fatima Cash & Carry
  • Lioncroft Wholesale Ltd. (Aston)
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

108 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Bestway Wholesale (55)
  • Booker Wholesale (25)
  • Parfetts (2)
  • United Wholesale Grocers Limited (1)
  • JJ Food Service (5)
  • B.B. Fatima Cash & Carry (1)
  • Lioncroft Wholesale Ltd. (Aston) (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 B Bestway Wholesale logo Bestway Wholesale 55
  • 2 B Booker Wholesale logo Booker Wholesale 25
  • 3 N Nisbets Catering Equipment logo Nisbets Catering Equipment 13
  • 4 J JJ Food Service logo JJ Food Service 5
  • 5 P Parfetts 2
  • 6 L Lynas Foodservice logo Lynas Foodservice 2
  • 7 U United Wholesale Grocers Limited 1
  • 8 B B.B. Fatima Cash & Carry 1
  • 9 L Lioncroft Wholesale Ltd. (Aston) 1
  • 10 L London Cash and Carry 1
  • 11 M MJ Cash & Carry 1
  • 12 S Sunrise Cash and Carry 1

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