Oatly:
Helping people ditch milk.

Region
Global
Sectors
Food, beverage & FMCG
Website
oatly.com
Investment
2016 - Active
Verlinvest contact
Eric Melloul, Clément Pointillart, Ben Black

Disrupting the global milk industry

Revenue growth since investment.*

*Publicly available information

What we did

Creating a new category // Building a local Swedish hero into a global market leader.

  • Established Barista Strategy as paid sampling to drive trial and new market entry
  • Partnered with China Resources and Howard Schultz amongst others as co-investors
  • Launched into the UK, US, China, Germany, Netherlands, Australia & SE Asia
  • Refined bold, vocal brand strategy against the dairy industry, with Oatly’s in-housing own creative team
  • Funded $1.8bn global supply footprint – including nine factories on three continents
  • Created global organizational infrastructure – hired key executives and scaled operational team

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