2 燕麦奶 Oatly 计划上市,植物奶成消费新趋势
Can Oatly milk it? Oatmilk brand gears up for US stock market
计划美股上市的燕麦奶品牌 Oatly,能否大捞一笔?
"Here comes the post milk generation" 1_____(be) the slogan emblazoned(印) on the side of the electric trucks of the alt-milk brand Oatly. We will soon find out if that's true as the Swedish oatmilk(燕麦奶) juggernaut(巨头) heads towards a mega US stock(股市) exchange listing.
The Swedish company said this week it had begun work on a flotation(上市) in New York 2_____ some analysts think could value the fast-growing business at as much as $10bn.
Oatly is following the money to the US where investors have poured cash into companies such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, which have helped plant-based nourishment enter the mainstream thanks 3_____high-profile deals to supply McDonald's and Burger King, 4______(respective), with vegan burgers(植物基食品).
After the upheaval(剧变) of the pandemic some business leaders think 2021 could be a watershed(分水岭) moment for plant-based foods. The consumer trends are clear. In the UK, sales of plant-based foods broke through the £1bn sales barrier last year, with 13 million shoppers 5_____(buy) meat-free substitutes and alt-milk, according to the grocery market analysts Kantar.
Unilever now says expanding 6_____(it) vegan range is a top 7_____(prior), with its chief executive, Alan Jope, describing plant-based foods as an "inexorable"(不可阻挡的) trend. "We are seeing in every single country in the world a shift towards more plant-based diets," said Jope.
US 8_____(consume) spent about £1.6bn on plant-based milks in 2020. In UK supermarkets, sales of plant milks 9_____(increase) by 16% to £278m in the past year, according to the data firm Nielsen. Within that, oat milk sales more than 10_____(double) to £73m.
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1 is 2 which/that 3 to 4 respectively 5 buying
6 its 7 priority 8 consumers 9 have increased 10 doubled