Where occasionwear is growing in the UK
181 occasionwear outlets across 2 brands are in the h3hex Data Store in the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables City of Edinburgh has the most, with 5; the top 25 local areas together hold 73 (41% of outlets with a mapped local area).
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 occasionwear outlets?
| # | Local area | Outlets | Brands present | Per 10,000 residents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City of Edinburgh | 5 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | - |
| 2 | Glasgow City | 5 | 2: Phase Eight, Monsoon | - |
| 3 | Belfast | 4 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | - |
| 4 | Cambridge | 4 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.3 |
| 5 | Dartford | 4 | 2: Phase Eight, Monsoon | 0.3 |
| 6 | Newham | 4 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.1 |
| 7 | Dorset | 3 | 2: Phase Eight, Monsoon | 0.1 |
| 8 | Hammersmith and Fulham | 3 | 2: Phase Eight, Monsoon | 0.2 |
| 9 | Islington | 3 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.1 |
| 10 | Liverpool | 3 | 2: Phase Eight, Monsoon | 0.1 |
| 11 | Newcastle upon Tyne | 3 | 2: Phase Eight, Monsoon | 0.1 |
| 12 | Norwich | 3 | 2: Phase Eight, Monsoon | 0.2 |
| 13 | ONS area E06000065 | 3 | 2: Phase Eight, Monsoon | 0.0 |
| 14 | Trafford | 3 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.1 |
| 15 | York | 3 | 2: Phase Eight, Monsoon | 0.1 |
| 16 | Barnet | 2 | 1: Phase Eight | 0.0 |
| 17 | Bath and North East Somerset | 2 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.1 |
| 18 | Birmingham | 2 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.0 |
| 19 | Braintree | 2 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.1 |
| 20 | Bristol, City of | 2 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.0 |
| 21 | Cardiff | 2 | 1: Phase Eight | 0.1 |
| 22 | Causeway Coast and Glens | 2 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | - |
| 23 | Cheltenham | 2 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.2 |
| 24 | Cheshire West and Chester | 2 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.1 |
| 25 | Colchester | 2 | 2: Monsoon, Phase Eight | 0.1 |
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 occasionwear outlets?
| # | Local area | Net change | Previous release | This release | All outlets now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City of Edinburgh | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| 2 | Glasgow City | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
Net change in outlets for brands present in both releases, for local areas with at least 5 outlets in the sector. 1 brand in this sector first appears in this release and is left out of the growth table, so that adding a brand to the data is never counted as an area growing.
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 Occasionwear 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 occasionwear store lists brand by brand or as a sector bundle.
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How many occasionwear outlets are there in the UK?
h3hex tracks 181 branded occasionwear outlets from 2 brands in the UK as at the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables, City of Edinburgh has the most, with 5.
Which occasionwear brands are growing?
No occasionwear brand present in both releases added outlets between the previous release and the November 2026 release.
Which occasionwear brands have the most UK outlets?
Phase Eight (110) and Monsoon (71), as at the November 2026 release.