Chain · United Kingdom · data through August 2026

C Costa Express logo Costa Express

Iceflower tracks 1,613 Costa Express stores across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #3 of 3,266 tracked UK coffee shops chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -6.1% 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
1,613
Regions
12
Category
Coffee Shop
Category rank
#3

Growth

Costa Express 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 Express's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q3 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 S Starbucks logo Starbucks -
2 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee -13.5%
3 C Costa Express logo Costa Express -6.1%
4 T Tesco Café -17.0%
5 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero -10.6%
6 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons -16.3%
7 C Coffee#1 logo Coffee#1 -9.4%
8 B Blank Street Coffee logo Blank Street Coffee -
9 N Nespresso logo Nespresso -10.5%
10 E Esquires Coffee logo Esquires Coffee +10.4%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 91.1 2024 Q3 2026 Q2

Store footprint

Store map

1,613 tracked Costa Express locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • South East 263
  • London 250
  • North West 179
  • East of England 172
  • Scotland 135
  • West Midlands 134
  • South West 121
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 117
  • East Midlands 110
  • Wales 68
  • North East 47
  • Northern Ireland 12
  • Other 5

Customer overlap

Who shops at Costa Express

Tracked chains Costa Express 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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