Trends · data through September 2026

Gas Stations & Convenience Stores in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 4,465 stores from 1,128 gas stations & convenience stores in the United Kingdom. Tesco Petrol grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Riverside Garage and Go.

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
1,128
Tracked stores
4,465
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas stations & convenience stores

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. Tesco Petrol and Riverside Garage sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tesco Petrol ▲1 +19.8%
2 R Riverside Garage ▲2 +16.5%
3 G Go ▲1 +16.3%
4 T Tesco Petrol Station logo Tesco Petrol Station ▲2 +12.2%
5 A Asda Fuel logo Asda Fuel - +11.4%
6 E Esso logo Esso - +11.2%
7 S Sainsbury - +9.9%
8 A Ascona - +9.4%
9 M Maxol logo Maxol - +8.7%
10 J JET logo JET - +8.7%
11 S Sainsbury's Petrol Station logo Sainsbury's Petrol Station - +7.2%
12 T The Station ▲1 +5.9%
13 A Asda Petrol Station logo Asda Petrol Station ▲1 +5.0%
14 S Sainsbury's Fuel logo Sainsbury's Fuel - +3.6%
15 S Solo ▼1 +3.2%
  • Shell
  • BP
  • Esso
  • Costco Gas
  • EG On the Move
  • Tesco Petrol Station
  • Sainsbury's Petrol Station
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

4,465 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Shell (1,239)
  • BP (1,024)
  • Esso (478)
  • Costco Gas (2)
  • EG On the Move (41)
  • Tesco Petrol Station (11)
  • Sainsbury's Petrol Station (10)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S Shell logo Shell 1,239
  • 2 B BP logo BP 1,024
  • 3 E Esso logo Esso 478
  • 4 T Texaco logo Texaco 70
  • 5 A Applegreen logo Applegreen 58
  • 6 M Maxol logo Maxol 42
  • 7 E EG On the Move logo EG On the Move 41
  • 8 G Gulf logo Gulf 37
  • 9 J JET logo JET 33
  • 10 V Valero logo Valero 32
  • 11 T The Station 24
  • 12 A Ascona 22
  • 13 M Morrisons Petrol Station logo Morrisons Petrol Station 14
  • 14 T The Store 12
  • 15 T Tesco Petrol Station logo Tesco Petrol Station 11
  • 16 S Sewell on The go logo Sewell on The go 10
  • 17 S Sainsbury's Petrol Station logo Sainsbury's Petrol Station 10
  • 18 E Essar logo Essar 10
  • 19 G Go 10
  • 20 S Solo 8
  • 21 C Crown 7
  • 22 A Asda On The Move logo Asda On The Move 6
  • 23 S Sainsbury 6
  • 24 S Sainsbury's Fuel logo Sainsbury's Fuel 6
  • 25 S Station Road Garage 6
  • 26 T TotalEnergies logo TotalEnergies 5
  • 27 A Asda Petrol Station logo Asda Petrol Station 5
  • 28 C Central Co-op logo Central Co-op 4
  • 29 T Tesco Fuel logo Tesco Fuel 4
  • 30 K Kenny's 4
  • 31 A Asda Fuel logo Asda Fuel 3
  • 32 T Tesco Petrol 3
  • 33 R Riverside Garage 3
  • 34 M Mile End Service Station 2
  • 35 D Daily Stop 2
  • 36 L Liberty logo Liberty 2
  • 37 M Moto Hospitality logo Moto Hospitality 2
  • 38 R Riverside Filling Station 2
  • 39 R Robin Hood Service Station 2
  • 40 P P J Nicholls logo P J Nicholls 2
  • 41 M Manor Service Station 2
  • 42 K Kingsway Service Station 2
  • 43 B Blackpark Filling Station 2
  • 44 S Swan Service Station 2
  • 45 T Tebay Services 2
  • 46 M Morrisons Fuel logo Morrisons Fuel 2
  • 47 M MFG Morrisons logo MFG Morrisons 2
  • 48 C Creightons 2
  • 49 C Costco Gas logo Costco Gas 2
  • 50 G Gordale Petrol Station 1

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