Trends · data through September 2026

Pharmacies in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 6,294 stores from 2,165 pharmacy chains in the United Kingdom. Barkers Chemist grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Green Light Pharmacy and Right Medicine Pharmacy.

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
2,165
Tracked stores
6,294
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked pharmacy 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. Barkers Chemist and Green Light Pharmacy sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Barkers Chemist - +19.5%
2 G Green Light Pharmacy ▲5 +18.4%
3 R Right Medicine Pharmacy logo Right Medicine Pharmacy ▲5 +16.9%
4 B Britannia Pharmacy ▲1 +15.3%
5 W Woodside Pharmacy ▲6 +15.2%
6 B Bradley's Pharmacy ▲4 +14.4%
7 P Pyramid Pharmacy logo Pyramid Pharmacy ▲3 +14.0%
8 L Lords Pharmacy ▲5 +13.2%
9 G Gordon's Chemist logo Gordon's Chemist ▲2 +12.9%
10 D Deans Pharmacy ▲3 +11.1%
11 A Allied Pharmacy - +10.5%
12 C Cornwell's Chemists ▲4 +9.8%
13 C Crest Pharmacy ▲3 +8.7%
14 O Osbon Pharmacy ▲3 +8.3%
15 C Cohens Chemist logo Cohens Chemist ▲1 +8.0%
  • Boots
  • Superdrug
  • Tesco Pharmacy
  • Well Pharmacy
  • Apple Pharmacy
  • Morrisons Pharmacy
  • Asda Pharmacy
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

6,294 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Boots (1,889)
  • Superdrug (809)
  • Tesco Pharmacy (10)
  • Well Pharmacy (281)
  • Apple Pharmacy (4)
  • Morrisons Pharmacy (6)
  • Asda Pharmacy (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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