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Top 25 Coffeehouse chains based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 195 coffeehouse chains headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 18,369 professional contacts across them, including 778 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers coffeehouse chains headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest coffeehouse chains based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8,018 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Costa Coffee, we’ve been crafting with heart and changing the coffee game since 1971.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 4,899 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1986 in London, Pret A Manger set out with a simple mission – to create handmade food that you couldn’t find anywhere else.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,958 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Caffè Nero was founded in 1997 by Gerry Ford who had a vision to bring a continental style coffee house experience to Europe and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 352 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Only source the best beans in the world Only hire the best baristas in town Get rid of plastic 🧦 Support our homeless communities 🤘 Never fear competition, open right next door…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Esquires Coffee, we believe a good coffee shop is about more than just the coffee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Opening our doors in 2001 and inspired by the prospect of giving customers a more complete experience, Coffee#1 has remained true to the values we established on day one and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 183 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Grind is a coffee company that lives in London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our purpose as a business is to Make Things Better, our spaces, our food & drink, but most importantly - our people and the communities in which we serve.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “23.5 Degrees is Starbucks first UK franchised business partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to WatchHouse, the home of Modern Coffee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’re an independent business, passionate about serving you the very best conscious crafted coffee and proper handmade food.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With a long standing heritage spanning nearly 100 years we have been producing lovingly handmade cakes since 1926.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2012, Scoffs Group is now the largest franchised partner of Costa Coffee in the UK and currently trades from 108 stores nationwide, spanning Sussex to Cornwall in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Serving great quality coffee since 1993.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ozone Coffee Roasters has been sourcing, roasting and delivering the finest specialty coffee since 1998.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Harris + Hoole is a chain of speciality coffee shops made up of experienced, passionate coffee lovers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2017, Trading Post Coffee Roasters have been one of the leading artisan, planet-conscious coffee roasters in the South East.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Cafe2U Great Coffee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Morning flat whites to evening espresso martinis” Notes is a collection of coffee and bars serving speciality coffee, craft beers, well-chosen wines and classic cocktails, all…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2010, we've been on a mission to build a network of coffee-loving entrepreneurs, serving offices, events, and more across the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're here to challenge the status quo on what can be achieved as a fully independent business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “London Coffee Houses serving curated single-origin specialty coffees with traceable provenance Kensington • Bayswater • Notting Hill • Mayfair” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our ambition at Boswells is to provide the best café experience in town - great food and drink, especially coffee, with friendly service.at reasonable prices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our story began in 2004, when our co-founder, Simon Vardy, found himself struggling to find a shop to get a good cup of coffee in the South Manchester market-town of Altrincham.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hot Numbers crafts exceptional coffee for brew-heads across Cambridge through our roastery, coffee-shops and workplace brew stations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: coffeehouse chains. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names coffeehouse chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of coffeehouse chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name coffeehouse chains. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Coffeehouse chains based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 195 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among coffeehouse chains, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “coffeehouse chains”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names coffeehouse chains), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among coffeehouse chains, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 778 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Coffeehouse chains by metro
- Coffeehouse chains in London57
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names coffeehouse chains, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many coffeehouse chains are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 195 coffeehouse chains headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Costa Coffee, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most coffeehouse chains?
London leads with 57 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (7) and Cheltenham (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 778 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 195 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.