Cooks Coffee Company announced a significant expansion in the number of cafés operating under the Company's Esquires and Triple Two brands, representing expected growth of almost 10% in store numbers before the end of the year. The Company's Esquires chain, which had 50 UK cafe´s at the end of September 2022, has recently opened a new outlet in Islington, London, with a further three openings in towns in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire, England, planned before the end of 2022. A further five store openings are currently scheduled in the UK in First Quarter 2023.

In Ireland, Esquires will shortly have a new cafe´ operating in a Dublin suburb and a further opening is planned in County Carlow in First Quarter 2023, to add to the existing 15 Esquires cafe´s in Ireland. The Company's Triple Two brand is also focused on a significant number of expansion opportunities, having already doubled the number of Triple Two cafe´s in the last twelve months to 20, before these planned new launches. This month will see the launch of the first of Triple Two's "Triple Two Go" vans, providing a mobile coffee outlet in the Manchester, UK, area.

Additionally, five new stores are currently planned to be opened in London and the south of England before the end of 2022.