Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 873 stores from 453 ice cream & frozen treats in North Carolina. Celtic Creamery grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Simply Natural Creamery and The Fuzzy Peach.

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
453
Tracked stores
873
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. Celtic Creamery and Simply Natural Creamery sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Celtic Creamery ▲2 +18.3%
2 S Simply Natural Creamery ▲2 +18.0%
3 T The Fuzzy Peach logo The Fuzzy Peach ▲1 +13.2%
4 S sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt logo sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt - +13.1%
5 J Jeremiah's Italian Ice logo Jeremiah's Italian Ice ▲2 +9.7%
6 H Haagen-Dazs logo Haagen-Dazs ▲2 +6.8%
7 T Two Roosters Ice Cream ▲3 +6.3%
8 T TCBY logo TCBY ▲1 +4.4%
9 M Marble Slab Creamery logo Marble Slab Creamery ▲1 +3.4%
10 B Bruster's Real Ice Cream logo Bruster's Real Ice Cream - +3.1%
11 G Goodberry's Frozen Custard - +3.1%
12 J Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams logo Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams ▼1 +3.0%
13 S Sunset Slush ▲1 +2.2%
14 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream - +1.9%
15 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins - +1.8%
  • Dairy Queen
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt
  • Biltmore
  • Kilwins
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Goodberry's Frozen Custard
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

873 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Dairy Queen (98)
  • Baskin-Robbins (42)
  • sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt (29)
  • Biltmore (2)
  • Kilwins (16)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (35)
  • Goodberry's Frozen Custard (8)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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