Trends · data through September 2026

Gift Shops in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 2,198 stores from 495 gift shop chains in the United Kingdom. Mooch grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Secret Garden and Blondies.

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
495
Tracked stores
2,198
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gift shop 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. Mooch and The Secret Garden sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Mooch - +15.1%
2 T The Secret Garden ▲1 +14.4%
3 B Blondies ▲1 +12.2%
4 M Miniso logo Miniso - +10.1%
5 F Forget Me Not ▲1 +9.0%
6 H Hallmark logo Hallmark - +8.6%
7 P Postmark logo Postmark ▲1 +7.4%
8 T The Merchant ▲1 +6.6%
9 O Occasions ▼1 +1.0%
10 C Calendar Club logo Calendar Club ▼1 +0.9%
11 B Between The Lines - +0.5%
12 T Top Gift logo Top Gift ▼1 +0.4%
13 H House of Cards logo House of Cards - -0.8%
14 C Cards Galore logo Cards Galore - -1.7%
15 T The Card Shop ▲1 -3.1%
  • Card Factory
  • Card city
  • Cardzone
  • Clintons
  • Menkind
  • Flying Tiger Copenhagen
  • Smiggle
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,198 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Card Factory (908)
  • Card city (2)
  • Cardzone (84)
  • Clintons (163)
  • Menkind (68)
  • Flying Tiger Copenhagen (37)
  • Smiggle (81)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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