Industry data: Top coffee shop groups 2007
Whitbread's Costa Coffee brand overtook Starbucks as the UK's largest coffee shop group with more than 600 outlets.
Costa Coffee has added nearly 200 new outlets since last year while Starbucks expanded its estate by 43 new venues to end with 549.
Motorway service area operator Welcome Break made its debut in the table this year with the new Coffee Primo brand, which has grown to 64 venues.
These facts and figures are reported in British Hospitality: Trends and Statistics 2007, published by the British Hospitality Association.
The full report (which is free to BHA members) can be bought for £195 (for the printed version) or £146.25 (for a PDF file). For enquiries or orders, phone 0207 404 7744 or contact bob.bacon@bha.org.uk.
The top coffee shop groups from the 2006 report can be viewed here >>
THE TOP COFFEE SHOP GROUPS 2006-2007
Owner | 2007 outlets | 2006 outlets | Selected brands | |
1 | Whitbread](http://www.whitbread.co.uk/) | 600+ | 405 | [Costa Coffee](http://www.costa.co.uk/) |
2 | [Starbucks](http://www.starbucks.com/) | 549 | 506 | Starbucks |
3 | [Caffè Nero](http://www.caffenero.com/) | 292 | 261 | Caffè Nero |
4 | [Marks & Spencer](http://www.marksandspencer.com/) | 213 | 202 | [Café Revive](http://www2.marksandspencer.com/thecompany/our_stores/results.asp?client=mands&db=pc&width=200&height=200&scale=1&prno=1+%21%3D+-1+AND+1&product=&coordsys=&store=&namepart=&pc=&productrange=4) |
5 | [SSP](http://www.sspweblive.com/sspintl/) | 179 | 135 | Caffè Ritazza |
6 | *[*BB's*](http://www.bbscoffeeandmuffins.com/)* | 140 | 110 | BB's |
7 | [Segafredo Zanetti](http://www.segafredo.it/) | 91 | 94 | [Puccino's](http://www.puccinos.com/) |
8 | [Nestlé](http://www.nestle.co.uk/Home) | 75 | 103 | Café Nescafé |
9 | [Tchibo](http://www.tchibo.co.uk/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/uk/-/GBP/TdUkStorefront-Start) | 74 | 38 | Tchibo |
10 | [Welcome Break](http://www.welcomebreak.co.uk/) | 64 | - | [Coffee Primo](http://www.welcomebreak.co.uk/OurBrands/Food/CoffeePrimoExpress/) |
11 | [Druckers](http://www.druckers.co.uk/) | 44 | 33 | Druckers |
12 | [Coffee Republic](http://www.coffeerepublic.co.uk/) | 40 | 36 | Coffee Republic |
13 | [AMT Coffee](http://www.amtcoffee.co.uk/) | 34 | 34 | AMT Coffee |
14 | [Morelli's](http://www.morellis.com/morelligo.html) | 27 | 23 | Morelli's |
15 | [Esquires | 20 | 14 | Esquire |
Source: Horizons