Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Montana

Iceflower tracks 85 stores from 35 ice cream & frozen treats in Montana. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sweet Peaks Ice Cream and Big Dipper Ice Cream.

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
35
Tracked stores
85
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked ice cream & frozen treats

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. Dairy Queen and Sweet Peaks Ice Cream sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +10.6%
2 S Sweet Peaks Ice Cream ▲1 -4.5%
3 B Big Dipper Ice Cream ▼1 -15.9%
4 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery - -22.0%
5 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins - -31.5%
  • Dairy Queen
  • Sweet Peaks Ice Cream
  • Big Dipper Ice Cream
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Genuine Ice Cream
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Twisted Bliss
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

85 tracked store locations in Montana. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dairy Queen (37)
  • Sweet Peaks Ice Cream (5)
  • Big Dipper Ice Cream (5)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (5)
  • Genuine Ice Cream (1)
  • Baskin-Robbins (3)
  • Twisted Bliss (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen 37
  • 2 S Sweet Peaks Ice Cream 5
  • 3 B Big Dipper Ice Cream 5
  • 4 C Cold Stone Creamery logo Cold Stone Creamery 5
  • 5 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins 3
  • 6 R Re-Treat 1
  • 7 P Philipsburg Creamery 1
  • 8 S Scoops 1
  • 9 T The Yogurt Shop 1
  • 10 T The Freeze 1
  • 11 C Creative Coffee Co. & Creative Yogurt 1
  • 12 B Black Dog Creamery 1
  • 13 B Bitterroot Snowballs 1
  • 14 T Two Scoop Saloon 1
  • 15 I Ice Cream 1
  • 16 F Frozen Moose 1
  • 17 N Nitro Creamery 1
  • 18 4 406 Frozen Yogurt 1
  • 19 Q Quick Stop Drive In 1
  • 20 S Shake and Swirl 1
  • 21 R Ripples Ice Cream Parlor 1
  • 22 B Billings Best Yogurt 1
  • 23 Y Yogurt City 1
  • 24 S Sweet Retreat Creamery 1
  • 25 M Michoacan A Pedir De Boca 1
  • 26 T The Ice Cream Place 1
  • 27 T Tea & Crepe 1
  • 28 H Haagen-Dazs logo Haagen-Dazs 1
  • 29 C City Creamery 1
  • 30 S Spinners 1
  • 31 M Maple Moose Coffee and Pop Shop 1
  • 32 H Huckleberry Hut 1
  • 33 C Clydesdale Creamery Saloon 1
  • 34 T Twisted Bliss 1
  • 35 G Genuine Ice Cream 1

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