Trends · data through September 2026

Pet Stores in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 1,710 stores from 898 pet store chains in the United Kingdom. Red Barn grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Harbro Country Stores and Just for Pets.

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
898
Tracked stores
1,710
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked pet store 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. Red Barn and Harbro Country Stores sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Red Barn logo Red Barn - +16.6%
2 H Harbro Country Stores logo Harbro Country Stores ▲1 +13.8%
3 J Just for Pets ▲1 +11.6%
4 R Ripples Waterlife - +8.2%
5 C Cookes Pet Supplies ▲2 +5.0%
6 P Pets Corner logo Pets Corner - -1.1%
7 P Pets at Home logo Pets at Home - -2.1%
8 G Gladwells Pet & Country Stores logo Gladwells Pet & Country Stores - -2.5%
9 P Pets Pantry - -4.3%
10 F Farm & Pet Place - -8.8%
11 T The Pet Shop - -11.0%
12 P Pets & Friends logo Pets & Friends - -12.2%
13 S Swallow Aquatics logo Swallow Aquatics ▼2 -15.8%
14 M Maidenhead Aquatics logo Maidenhead Aquatics ▼2 -36.9%
  • Pets at Home
  • Pets Corner
  • Just for Pets
  • Harbro Country Stores
  • Maidenhead Aquatics
  • Creature Comforts
  • Pets & Friends
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,710 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Pets at Home (483)
  • Pets Corner (156)
  • Just for Pets (24)
  • Harbro Country Stores (15)
  • Maidenhead Aquatics (39)
  • Creature Comforts (10)
  • Pets & Friends (14)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 P Pets at Home logo Pets at Home 483
  • 2 P Pets Corner logo Pets Corner 156
  • 3 M Maidenhead Aquatics logo Maidenhead Aquatics 39
  • 4 J Just for Pets 24
  • 5 H Harbro Country Stores logo Harbro Country Stores 15
  • 6 P Pets & Friends logo Pets & Friends 14
  • 7 T The Pet Shop 14
  • 8 C Creature Comforts 10
  • 9 G Gladwells Pet & Country Stores logo Gladwells Pet & Country Stores 8
  • 10 P Pets Pantry 7
  • 11 F Farm & Pet Place 5
  • 12 W WCF Pet & Equestrian 4
  • 13 C Cookes Pet Supplies 3
  • 14 S Swallow Aquatics logo Swallow Aquatics 3
  • 15 T The Pet Store 3
  • 16 R Ripples Waterlife 3
  • 17 R Red Barn logo Red Barn 3
  • 18 B Browns Natural Pet Store 2
  • 19 T Trusty Pet Supplies 2
  • 20 P Pet Express 2
  • 21 P Posh Pets 2
  • 22 A A Coombs Pet Centre 2
  • 23 B Bradlands Pet Supplies 2
  • 24 N Newton Pet & Aquatics 2
  • 25 B Bartletts Country Stores 2
  • 26 D Doghouse 2
  • 27 D Direct Pets 2
  • 28 N North West Discount Pet Foods 2
  • 29 P Petco logo Petco 2
  • 30 T The Feed Warehouse 2
  • 31 C Carharrack Farm & Country Store 1
  • 32 L Lawson Animal Feeds 1
  • 33 T Twinpet 1
  • 34 S Sure4Pets Ltd 1
  • 35 S Serpells Ltd 1
  • 36 H Harbro Country Store 1
  • 37 R Riber Pets 1
  • 38 G GJL Animal Feeds 1
  • 39 C Creation Aquatics 1
  • 40 L Laurencekirk Pet Supplies 1
  • 41 P Pets Plus logo Pets Plus 1
  • 42 M M&L Aquatics 1
  • 43 D Dragonfly Products 1
  • 44 N Nautilus Aquatics 1
  • 45 V Victor Aquatics 1
  • 46 G GB Total Equestrian 1
  • 47 M Millennium Farm and Pet Supplies LTD 1
  • 48 S SLB Supplies 1
  • 49 G Gatleys 1
  • 50 A Animal Station 1

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