Where prestige beauty is growing in the UK

1,266 prestige beauty outlets across 11 brands are in the h3hex Data Store in the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables Westminster has the most, with 41, or 2.0 per 10,000 residents; the top 25 local areas together hold 474 (38% of outlets with a mapped local area). The largest like-for-like net gain since the previous release is in City of Edinburgh (+7).

Branded outlets tracked1,266in the Data Store

Brands11on sale in the Data Store

Local areas225with at least one outlet

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.

Most outlets

Which local areas have the most prestige beauty outlets?

#	Local area	Outlets	Brands present	Per 10,000 residents
1	Westminster	41	11: Benefit Cosmetics, Clarins, Aesop, Charlotte Tilbury, Space NK	2.0
2	City of Edinburgh	33	10: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Rituals, Aesop	-
3	Glasgow City	33	10: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Charlotte Tilbury, Bobbi Brown	-
4	Manchester	23	10: MAC Cosmetics, Molton Brown, Bobbi Brown, Charlotte Tilbury, Benefit Cosmetics	0.4
5	Liverpool	22	9: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Charlotte Tilbury, Bobbi Brown	0.4
6	Leeds	20	9: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Charlotte Tilbury, Molton Brown	0.2
7	Newcastle upon Tyne	20	8: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, MAC Cosmetics, Molton Brown	0.6
8	Hammersmith and Fulham	19	9: MAC Cosmetics, Benefit Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Clarins, Space NK	1.0
9	Kensington and Chelsea	19	7: Aesop, Charlotte Tilbury, Clarins, Space NK, Bobbi Brown	1.3
10	Birmingham	18	8: Benefit Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Clarins, Rituals	0.2
11	Dartford	18	9: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, MAC Cosmetics, Charlotte Tilbury	1.4
12	Belfast	17	8: Benefit Cosmetics, Clarins, Molton Brown, MAC Cosmetics, Rituals	-
13	Cheshire West and Chester	17	8: Clarins, Charlotte Tilbury, MAC Cosmetics, Benefit Cosmetics, Rituals	0.5
14	Sheffield	17	9: Benefit Cosmetics, Clarins, MAC Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Charlotte Tilbury	0.3
15	Trafford	16	9: Benefit Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Clarins, MAC Cosmetics, Rituals	0.7
16	York	16	8: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, MAC Cosmetics, Molton Brown	0.8
17	Barnet	15	7: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Charlotte Tilbury	0.4
18	Camden	14	7: Aesop, Space NK, Benefit Cosmetics, Charlotte Tilbury, Clarins	0.6
19	Cardiff	14	8: Benefit Cosmetics, Clarins, MAC Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Charlotte Tilbury	0.4
20	Kingston upon Thames	14	8: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Charlotte Tilbury, MAC Cosmetics	0.8
21	Milton Keynes	14	8: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Charlotte Tilbury	0.5
22	Newham	14	8: Bobbi Brown, Benefit Cosmetics, Charlotte Tilbury, Clarins, MAC Cosmetics	0.4
23	Tower Hamlets	14	9: Benefit Cosmetics, Aesop, Charlotte Tilbury, Space NK, Bobbi Brown	0.4
24	Cambridge	13	9: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Aesop, Bobbi Brown	0.9
25	Nottingham	13	8: Clarins, Benefit Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown, Charlotte Tilbury	0.4

Local areas are local authority districts. Brands present shows how many brands have an outlet there and the five with the most.

Fastest growing

Which local areas added the most prestige beauty outlets?

#	Local area	Net change	Previous release	This release	All outlets now
1	City of Edinburgh	+7	22	29	33
2	Bristol, City of	+4	7	11	11
3	Glasgow City	+3	27	30	33
4	Hammersmith and Fulham	+3	15	18	19
5	Leicester	+3	6	9	9
6	Liverpool	+2	19	21	22
7	Leeds	+2	15	17	20
8	York	+2	12	14	16
9	Barnet	+2	13	15	15
10	Tower Hamlets	+2	10	12	14
11	Southampton	+2	10	12	12
12	St Albans	+2	9	11	12
13	Oxford	+2	8	10	10
14	Guildford	+2	6	8	9
15	Derby	+2	6	8	8

Net change in outlets for brands present in both releases, for local areas with at least 5 outlets in the sector. 2 brands in this sector first appear in this release and are left out of the growth table, so that adding a brand to the data is never counted as an area growing.

Method

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 Prestige beauty 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. 12 outlets with no mappable postcode are counted in the totals but not in the local-area tables. 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.

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Use the data

Prospect site reports assess a single address against these brands, and the data store sells the prestige beauty store lists brand by brand or as a sector bundle.

Part of Beauty

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How many prestige beauty outlets are there in the UK?

h3hex tracks 1,266 branded prestige beauty outlets from 11 brands in the UK as at the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables, Westminster has the most, with 41.

Which prestige beauty brands are growing?

Between the previous release and the November 2026 release, the brands adding the most outlets were MAC Cosmetics (+106), Rituals (+8) and Benefit Cosmetics (+5).

Which prestige beauty brands have the most UK outlets?

Clarins (330), Benefit Cosmetics (215) and MAC Cosmetics (188), as at the November 2026 release.