Trends · data through September 2026

Airport Shops & Travel Retail in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 65 stores from 9 airport shops & travel retail chains in the United Kingdom. DFS grew fastest over the last year, ahead of iStore and InMotion.

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
9
Tracked stores
65
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked airport shops & travel 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. DFS and iStore sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D DFS logo DFS ▲1 +6.6%
2 I iStore logo iStore ▼1 -7.1%
3 I InMotion logo InMotion - -12.5%
4 E Essentials - -15.4%
5 A Aelia Duty Free logo Aelia Duty Free ▲1 -23.5%
6 D Duty Free logo Duty Free ▼1 -78.1%
  • World Duty Free
  • Aelia Duty Free
  • Duty Free
  • DFS
  • iStore
  • InMotion
  • Essentials
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • World Duty Free (28)
  • Aelia Duty Free (3)
  • Duty Free (5)
  • DFS (4)
  • iStore (5)
  • InMotion (3)
  • Essentials (13)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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