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How Oatly Built a Brand on Provocative Transparency
In this episode of Building Brands, Lucas and Luna explore how Oatly turned a 1990s Swedish oat drink into a global brand by leaning into provocative transparency. Starting from a 2014 production crisis that forced the company to rethink everything, they trace the strategy of radical openness—publishing its carbon footprint, calling out dairy's environmental cost, and using quirky packaging copy to court controversy. They break down the numbers: a compound annual growth rate above 50 percent from 2014 to 2020, a valuation north of $10 billion at IPO, and the 'hate us or love…
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