Trends · data through September 2026

Coffee Chains in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 3,528 stores from 20 coffee chains in the United Kingdom. Coffee Station grew fastest over the last year, ahead of % Arabica and SOHO Coffee.

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 chains
20
Tracked stores
3,528
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked coffee chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Coffee Station and % Arabica sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Coffee Station - +4.2%
2 A % Arabica ▲2 +1.9%
3 S SOHO Coffee ▲1 +0.7%
4 C Coffee Corner - -3.0%
5 B Black Sheep Coffee logo Black Sheep Coffee ▲1 -5.4%
6 E Esquires Coffee logo Esquires Coffee - -6.4%
7 2 200 Degrees Coffee logo 200 Degrees Coffee - -13.1%
8 C Coffee#1 logo Coffee#1 - -16.0%
9 P Puccino's logo Puccino's - -19.4%
10 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero - -19.6%
11 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee - -20.6%
12 T The Coffee Bean - -23.0%
13 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons - -25.7%
14 M Moka ▼1 -33.6%
15 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▼2 -37.9%
  • Starbucks
  • Costa Coffee
  • Caffè Nero
  • Tim Hortons
  • Coffee#1
  • Blank Street Coffee
  • Esquires Coffee
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

3,528 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Starbucks (1,374)
  • Costa Coffee (1,127)
  • Caffè Nero (561)
  • Tim Hortons (78)
  • Coffee#1 (127)
  • Blank Street Coffee (40)
  • Esquires Coffee (70)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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