Trends · data through September 2026

Snacks & Specialty Food in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 194 stores from 20 snacks & specialty food chains in the United Kingdom. Munchies grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Lily O'Brien's Chocolates and Hotel Chocolat.

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
20
Tracked stores
194
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked snacks & specialty food 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. Munchies and Lily O'Brien's Chocolates sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Munchies - +5.5%
2 L Lily O'Brien's Chocolates - +1.5%
3 H Hotel Chocolat logo Hotel Chocolat - -5.0%
4 T The Cheese Shop - -9.0%
5 G Greencore - -15.4%
  • Hotel Chocolat
  • Lily O'Brien's Chocolates
  • Munchies
  • Triple A African Food Store
  • Namaste Bazaar
  • Läderach
  • Cake Inn Dudley
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

194 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Hotel Chocolat (136)
  • Lily O'Brien's Chocolates (4)
  • Munchies (30)
  • Triple A African Food Store (1)
  • Namaste Bazaar (1)
  • Läderach (2)
  • Cake Inn Dudley (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 H Hotel Chocolat logo Hotel Chocolat 136
  • 2 M Munchies 30
  • 3 L Lily O'Brien's Chocolates 4
  • 4 T The Cheese Shop 4
  • 5 G Greencore 3
  • 6 L Läderach logo Läderach 2
  • 7 T The Westgate 2
  • 8 E Embas Local Clapham 1
  • 9 T The Dutch Maid Co 1
  • 10 N NIAB at East Malling 1
  • 11 F Foodles UK 1
  • 12 L Lillie Brothers 1
  • 13 N No 12 Greengrocer 1
  • 14 S Saray International Market & Butcher 1
  • 15 D DHL M&S Welham Green 1
  • 16 F Flavours of Kerala Groceries 1
  • 17 P Panda Mart 1
  • 18 C Cake Inn Dudley logo Cake Inn Dudley 1
  • 19 N Namaste Bazaar 1
  • 20 T Triple A African Food Store 1

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