Data: The top 50 retailers by sales during the 2014/15 financial year

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Retail Week’s ranking of the UK’s top 50 retailers by sales for the 2014/15 financial year sees some changes to the top 10.

Top 50 by sales

Aldi has cemented its meteoric rise by entering the top 10 for the first time, while the John Lewis Partnership has overtaken Marks & Spencer into fifth place.

Recently merged Dixons Carphone also makes its first appearance, coming in at ninth. As a result, both Kingfisher and Home Retail Group are no longer ranked among the top ten largest retailers by sales.

Other new entrants in the top 50 include BHS – which had previously been included as part of the Arcadia Group – as well as department store business Selfridges.

High street bellwether Next drops a position as Lidl continues to climb the table.

George MacDonald and Philip Wiggenraad discuss the top 50

Despite its underperformance in recent years, Tesco remains comfortably ahead in first place and accounted for 20% of the combined turnover of all 50 retailers (£217.2bn).

Retailers that have made the biggest leaps this year include fast-growing discounters such as B&M, Home Bargains and Poundland. But furniture retailer IKEA has also gained three places after reporting double digit sales growth in 2014/15.

Rank	Retailer	Sales (£m)	Change	Previous rank	Notes
1	Tesco	£43,573	=	1
2	Sainsbury’s	£23,443	=	2
3	Asda	£23,157	=	3	12 months to December 2014.
4	Morrisons	£16,816	=	4
5	John Lewis Partnership	£9,701	↑	6
6	Marks & Spencer	£9,223	↓	5
7	Cooperative Group	£7,085	=	7	Food retail. 12 months to December 2014.
8	Alliance Boots	£6,900	=	8	UK retail sales (opticians and chemists). Retail Week estimate.
9	Dixons Carphone	£6,451	New		Sales are underlying. Includes Republic of Ireland.
10	Aldi	£5,695	↑	11	Retail Week estimate. Year to December 2014.
11	Home Retail Group	£5,575	↓	9	Sales exclude financial services activities.
12	Kingfisher	£4,499	↓	10	Includes Republic of Ireland.
13	Amazon	£4,400	=	13	Estimated sales through Amazon.co.uk.
14	Lidl	£4,000	↑	15	Retail Week estimate. Year to December 2014.
15	Next	£3,726	↓	14	Sales are Next Retail (UK and Ireland), Next Directory (excluding overseas sales) and Lipsy Retail.
16	Primark	£2,900	=	16	Retail Week estimate.
17	Iceland	£2,682	=	17
18	Sports Direct	£2,140	↑	19	Estimated UK retail sales.
19	Arcadia	£2,070	↓	18	Excludes BHS.
20	Debenhams	£1,922	=	20	UK net sales, excluding concessions.
21	Lloyds Pharmacy	£1,865	=	21
22	TK Maxx	£1,757	↑	23
23	Ikea	£1,570	↑	25
24	B&M	£1,526	↑	28
25	Home Bargains	£1,472	↑	27
26	Wilko	£1,445	↓	24
27	Shop Direct	£1,379	↓	26
28	WH Smith	£1,178	↑	29	Includes a small element of international turnover.
29	Poundland	£1,112	↑	35	Includes Republic of Ireland.
30	JD Sports	£1,105	↑	33	Estimated retail sales.
31	Matalan	£1,094	↓	30
32	Superdrug	£1,058	=	32	Year to December 2014.
33	New Look	£1,048	↓	31
34	Wickes	£1,040	=	34	Year to December 2014.
35	McColl’s Retail Group	£922	↑	36
36	H&M	£917	↑	40	Year to November 2014.
37	Ocado	£904	↑	41	Year to November 2014.
38	Apple Retail UK	£898	↓	37	Year to September 2014
39	Halfords	£875	=	39	Retail division sales.
40	Farmfoods	£852	↑	45	Year to December 2014.
41	Dunelm	£836	↑	44
42	N Brown	£818	↓	38	Includes small element of international turnover
43	River Island	£802	↑	46	Year to December 2014.
44	House of Fraser	£785	↓	43	UK net sales, excluding concessions.
45	Harrods	£762	↓	42	UK net sales, excluding concessions.
46	Pets at Home	£729	↑	47
47	DFS	£690	↑	49
48	GAME Digital	£656	=	48
49	BHS	£600	New		Retail Week estimate.
50	Selfridges	£566	New