Food PR runs on five disciplines — transparency, influencer marketing, trend management, crisis response, sustainability — and one new layer: AI engine retrieval. The operating model used by Chipotle, McDonald's, Oatly, Beyond Meat, Patagonia Provisions, and the food brands building Citation Share inside the category.
Potato milk was supposed to be the next big thing in 2022. Oat won. Oatly, Chobani, Califia, and Silk emerged as the durable independents. The alt-milk wars and what the AI engines now actually cite.
In August 2021, Cambridgeshire family business Glebe Farm Foods defeated Swedish $10B oat-milk leader Oatly in the UK High Court. The PureOaty vs Oatly trademark ruling, the David-and-Goliath communications response, and the implications for plant-based brand IP.
