Chain · United Kingdom · data through September 2026

C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee

Iceflower tracks 1,127 Costa Coffee stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #2 of 20 tracked UK coffee chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -20.6% over the last year.

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 stores
1,127
Regions
12
Category
Coffee Chains
Category rank
#2

Growth

Costa Coffee against its category

The biggest tracked UK coffee chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Costa Coffee's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 S Starbucks logo Starbucks -
2 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee -20.6%
3 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero -19.6%
4 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons -25.7%
5 C Coffee#1 logo Coffee#1 -16.0%
6 B Blank Street Coffee logo Blank Street Coffee -
7 E Esquires Coffee logo Esquires Coffee -6.4%
8 2 200 Degrees Coffee logo 200 Degrees Coffee -13.1%
9 P Puccino's logo Puccino's -19.4%
10 S SOHO Coffee +0.7%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 73.7 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

1,127 tracked Costa Coffee locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 187
  • London 146
  • North West 138
  • East of England 111
  • South West 106
  • East Midlands 86
  • West Midlands 86
  • Scotland 80
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 79
  • Wales 50
  • North East 36
  • Northern Ireland 21
  • Other 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at Costa Coffee

Tracked chains Costa Coffee customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

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