The data displays a ranking of the leading coffee shop chains in the UK as of December 2016, based on number of stores. Costa ranked highest with 2,121 outlets in the United Kingdom, followed by Starbucks with 898 outlets and Caffè Nero with 650 stores.
Costa Coffee is the most prominent British coffee chain, with store numbers in the United Kingdom more than doubling in the last 8 years. Not only a leader in the United Kingdom coffee market, Costa also operates the highest number of coffee outlets and highest number of coffee shop units in the European coffee shop market.
