Chain · United Kingdom · data through July 2026

C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee

Iceflower tracks 1,065 Costa Coffee stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #1 of 2,277 tracked UK coffee shops chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -8.3% 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
1,065
Regions
12
Category
Coffee Shop
Category rank
#1

Growth

Costa Coffee 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 Coffee'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 82.0 2024 Q1 2025 Q4

Store footprint

Store map

1,065 tracked Costa Coffee locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 180
  • London 135
  • North West 135
  • East of England 107
  • South West 102
  • West Midlands 80
  • East Midlands 76
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 75
  • Scotland 69
  • Wales 48
  • North East 35
  • Northern Ireland 20
  • Other 3

Customer overlap

Who shops at Costa Coffee

Tracked chains Costa Coffee 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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