Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

C Costa Express logo Costa Express

Iceflower tracks 1,444 Costa Express stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #3 of 2,277 tracked UK coffee shops chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -4.0% 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
1,444
Regions
12
Category
Coffee Shop
Category rank
#3

Growth

Costa Express against its category

The biggest tracked UK coffee shops 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 Express's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee -8.3%
2 S Starbucks logo Starbucks +13.6%
3 C Costa Express logo Costa Express -4.0%
4 T Tesco Café -3.5%
5 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero -4.0%
6 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons -7.6%
7 C Coffee#1 -4.6%
8 C Caffè Concerto -7.7%
9 N Nespresso logo Nespresso -7.5%
10 B Blank Street Coffee logo Blank Street Coffee -

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 90.1 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

1,444 tracked Costa Express locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 242
  • London 226
  • East of England 159
  • North West 150
  • Scotland 124
  • West Midlands 113
  • South West 111
  • East Midlands 98
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 97
  • Wales 65
  • North East 45
  • Northern Ireland 11
  • Other 3

Customer overlap

Who shops at Costa Express

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

S Starbucks logo Starbucks 96
G Greggs logo Greggs 65
S Superdrug logo Superdrug 38
N Next 34
B BP logo BP 31

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