Trends · data through September 2026

Retail trends in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 38,891 stores from 14,033 retail chains in the United Kingdom. F. Hinds grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Apple Store and Accessorize.

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
14,033
Tracked stores
38,891
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail 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. F. Hinds and Apple Store sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F F. Hinds logo F. Hinds ▲15 +18.2%
2 A Apple Store logo Apple Store ▲5 +17.4%
3 A Accessorize logo Accessorize ▲13 +16.8%
4 D Dunnes Stores logo Dunnes Stores ▲11 +16.7%
5 U Uniqlo logo Uniqlo ▲4 +16.2%
6 S Søstrene Grene logo Søstrene Grene ▲9 +15.0%
7 L Lacoste logo Lacoste ▲11 +14.8%
8 L LEGO logo LEGO ▲6 +14.8%
9 C COS logo COS ▲13 +14.4%
10 U Urban Outfitters logo Urban Outfitters ▲8 +14.4%
11 S Squire's Garden Centres logo Squire's Garden Centres ▲12 +14.1%
12 T Tommy Hilfiger logo Tommy Hilfiger ▲7 +13.7%
13 K Kurt Geiger logo Kurt Geiger ▲10 +12.7%
14 D Deichmann logo Deichmann ▲6 +12.5%
15 S Swarovski logo Swarovski ▲15 +12.4%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 38,891 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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