Where frozen food specialist is growing in the UK
1,302 frozen food specialist outlets across 3 brands are in the h3hex Data Store in the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables Glasgow City has the most, with 28; the top 25 local areas together hold 310 (24% of outlets with a mapped local area). The largest like-for-like net gain since the previous release is in Wigan (+1).
Outlet and brand counts are the Data Store's: every brand on sale, with every outlet in its file. The local-area and growth tables count the trading outlets in h3hex's master dataset that map to a local area, so their totals can be lower.
Which local areas have the most frozen food specialist outlets?
| # | Local area | Outlets | Brands present | Per 10,000 residents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glasgow City | 28 | 3: Farmfoods, Iceland Foods, The Food Warehouse | - |
| 2 | Birmingham | 25 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.2 |
| 3 | Liverpool | 22 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.4 |
| 4 | North Lanarkshire | 15 | 3: Farmfoods, Iceland Foods, The Food Warehouse | - |
| 5 | Belfast | 13 | 2: Iceland Foods, The Food Warehouse | - |
| 6 | Leeds | 13 | 3: Farmfoods, Iceland Foods, The Food Warehouse | 0.2 |
| 7 | Sandwell | 13 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.4 |
| 8 | Cornwall | 12 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.2 |
| 9 | County Durham | 12 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.2 |
| 10 | Manchester | 12 | 2: Farmfoods, Iceland Foods | 0.2 |
| 11 | Sheffield | 11 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.2 |
| 12 | Sunderland | 11 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.4 |
| 13 | Wakefield | 11 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.3 |
| 14 | Bradford | 10 | 3: Farmfoods, Iceland Foods, The Food Warehouse | 0.2 |
| 15 | Fife | 10 | 3: Farmfoods, Iceland Foods, The Food Warehouse | - |
| 16 | Flintshire | 10 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.6 |
| 17 | Kingston upon Hull, City of | 10 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.4 |
| 18 | South Lanarkshire | 10 | 2: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods | - |
| 19 | Wigan | 10 | 3: Farmfoods, Iceland Foods, The Food Warehouse | 0.3 |
| 20 | City of Edinburgh | 9 | 3: Farmfoods, Iceland Foods, The Food Warehouse | - |
| 21 | ONS area E06000066 | 9 | 3: Iceland Foods, The Food Warehouse, Farmfoods | 0.2 |
| 22 | Rhondda Cynon Taf | 9 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.4 |
| 23 | Wirral | 9 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.3 |
| 24 | Bristol, City of | 8 | 3: Iceland Foods, The Food Warehouse, Farmfoods | 0.2 |
| 25 | Cardiff | 8 | 3: Iceland Foods, Farmfoods, The Food Warehouse | 0.2 |
Local areas are local authority districts. Brands present shows how many brands have an outlet there and the five with the most.
Which local areas added the most frozen food specialist outlets?
| # | Local area | Net change | Previous release | This release | All outlets now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wigan | +1 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | Glasgow City | 0 | 28 | 28 | 28 |
| 3 | Birmingham | 0 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| 4 | Liverpool | 0 | 22 | 22 | 22 |
| 5 | North Lanarkshire | 0 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| 6 | Sandwell | 0 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| 7 | Leeds | 0 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| 8 | Belfast | 0 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| 9 | County Durham | 0 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 10 | Cornwall | 0 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 11 | Manchester | 0 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 12 | Sheffield | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| 13 | Sunderland | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| 14 | Wakefield | 0 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| 15 | Kingston upon Hull, City of | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Net change in outlets for brands present in both releases, for local areas with at least 5 outlets in the sector. No brand in this sector is new to this release.
How these figures are made
Counts are h3hex's own store-by-store record of each brand's published UK locations for the brands listed in the Frozen food specialist sector of the h3hex data store, November 2026 release (scrape window 30 Oct - 3 Nov 2026), page built 2026-11-12. Closed, pre-opening and head-office records are left out. 1 outlets with no mappable postcode are counted in the totals but not in the local-area tables. 4 districts created in 2023 are shown by their ONS code because the postcode lookup used here carries no name for them. Net change compares this release with the 29 October 2026 edition of the same dataset and reflects openings and closures as well as improved coverage of each brand's own locator. Resident population is Census 2021 usual-resident population by output area, summed to local authority district through the ONS postcode-to-output-area lookup (May 2024). The population table does not join to the lookup for districts in Northern Ireland and Scotland, so outlets per 10,000 residents is shown as - for them.
Use the data
Prospect site reports assess a single address against these brands, and the data store sells the frozen food specialist store lists brand by brand or as a sector bundle.
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How many frozen food specialist outlets are there in the UK?
h3hex tracks 1,302 branded frozen food specialist outlets from 3 brands in the UK as at the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables, Glasgow City has the most, with 28.
Which frozen food specialist brands are growing?
Between the previous release and the November 2026 release, the brand adding the most outlets was Farmfoods (+1).
Which frozen food specialist brands have the most UK outlets?
Iceland Foods (755), Farmfoods (334) and The Food Warehouse (213), as at the November 2026 release.