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Top 25 Gelato shops based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 229 gelato shops headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,985 professional contacts across them, including 148 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers gelato shops 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 gelato shops based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 404 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The UK’s Leading Italian Gelato and Dessert company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Colicci journey began back in 1982, when a young Ernie Colicci travelled to England from his native Italy with a dream to sell ice cream and a passion to grow a business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Badiani was born in 1932 in a special city: Florence, which is an icon and heritage of beauty all over the world, craftsmanship and creative genius.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With a passion for perfection, our head chef Paolo leads our team of talented Italian chefs, who create our range of award-winning gelato and sorbetto by hand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Joe Created a unique vanilla ice cream recipe back in 1922.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Born in Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Independent Sicilian café serving up authentic food including sourdough pizza, focaccia, arancini, a traditional selection of cakes and cannoli, and artisan gelato.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Crème is a dessert shop specialising in really big cookies, soft-serve ice cream and coffee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are fwip, creators of the world’s smallest gelateria and winners of a whopping 43 coveted Gold Stars from the Great Taste Awards for our Gelato, Vegan Sorbet and Frozen Yogurt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Unico Gelato was born with the goal of exporting the Italian gelato tradition abroad.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At home or on a cone we make the very best gelato.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Ice Cream Union is a company based out of London, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Baboo Gelato is a multi-award winning artisanal ice cream maker based in Dorset, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Salcombe Dairy is a family run premium Ice Cream, Sorbet and Bean to Bar Organic Chocolate producer based in Salcombe, South Devon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our story starts in 1914, with our great grandfather Pietro Equi.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “St Mocha was opened in 2014 by brothers Stuart and David Fraser, who have a huge passion for amazing artisan coffee and handmade ice cream.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Porrelli is a luxury Italian style ice cream manufacturer based in Paisley, Scotland, providing ice cream and frozen goods to both the catering and retail markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Flavour Our chef Jacob Kenedy is renowned as one of the greatest young chefs in the UK, and has led Gelupo’s older sister, Bocca Di Lupo, to extraordinary acclaim.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Opened in 2019, and originating in Europe with stores across the World, Hans & Gretel is London’s best experiential dessert business with creative flare, set in fairy-tale…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rossi has been producing award-winning ice cream in Essex since 1932; based on a traditional Italian recipe of fresh milk, butter and double cream.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We make scrumptious, natural ice cream, sorbets and frozen creations from scratch, using our knowledge and expertise to deliver luxurious, inventive, flavourful delights across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ITALIAN CHOCOLATE ARTISANS Serving the Best Hot Chocolate in London!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bears Ice Cream Imaginarium is an award-winning, creative ice cream company based in London and Whitstable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “This is not an ice-cream; It's a gelato.” 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: gelato shops. 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 gelato shops.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of gelato shops, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name gelato shops. 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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Gelato shops 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 229 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 gelato shops, 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 “gelato shops”. 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 gelato shops), 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 gelato shops, 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, 148 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.
Gelato shops by metro
- Gelato shops in London63
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 gelato shops, 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 gelato shops are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 229 gelato shops 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?
Creams Cafe, headquartered in Uk, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most gelato shops?
London leads with 63 headquartered companies, followed by Glasgow (6) and Croydon (3).
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 148 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 229 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.