Growth
Cold Stone Creamery against its category
The biggest tracked US ice cream & frozen treats 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 Cold Stone Creamery's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dairy Queen | -1.3% |
| 2 | Baskin-Robbins | +12.1% |
| 3 | Cold Stone Creamery | -12.3% |
| 4 | La Michoacana | -1.7% |
| 5 | Braum's | +10.4% |
| 6 | Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard | -0.4% |
| 7 | sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt | +4.1% |
| 8 | Menchie's Frozen Yogurt | -0.1% |
| 9 | Braum's Ice Cream & Burger Restaurant | +7.2% |
| 10 | Handel's Homemade Ice Cream | +8.1% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
967 tracked Cold Stone Creamery locations across 47 US states, DC, and 1 territory. California, Florida, and Texas hold 34% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- California 204
- Florida 78
- Texas 51
- Virginia 44
- Colorado 39
- North Carolina 35
- New York 35
- Arizona 32
- Maryland 32
- Illinois 29
- Ohio 27
- Georgia 25
- Michigan 24
- New Jersey 24
- Minnesota 20
- Utah 19
- Pennsylvania 17
- Indiana 16
- Washington 15
- Wisconsin 15
- Massachusetts 14
- Missouri 14
- Oregon 13
- South Carolina 12
- Iowa 11
- Kansas 11
- Kentucky 11
- Connecticut 9
- Puerto Rico 9
- New Mexico 8
- Arkansas 7
- Nebraska 7
- Nevada 7
- Tennessee 7
- Idaho 6
- Montana 5
- North Dakota 5
- Alaska 4
- Louisiana 4
- Alabama 3
- Delaware 3
- West Virginia 3
- District of Columbia 2
- New Hampshire 2
- Oklahoma 2
- Rhode Island 2
- South Dakota 2
- Wyoming 2
- Hawaii 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Cold Stone Creamery
Tracked chains Cold Stone Creamery 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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