Plant-Based Cheese
Launch a plant-based cheese brand while the category is still young: millions of flexitarian and lactose-intolerant households are trying it, and most say nothing on the shelf melts or tastes right yet.
Plant-based cheese is one of the fastest-growing corners of the dairy aisle, and it is still mostly unclaimed. One cashew brand leads, a dairy giant has a plant line, a few small makers sell at farmers' markets, and a lot of shoppers have tried one block, been disappointed and not come back. The decisions that matter are product and reach: how much to spend on taste and meltability before scaling, whether to go after committed vegans or the far bigger flexitarian and lactose-intolerant groups, whether to sell to pizzerias and cafés as well as shoppers, and how fast to build production and distribution. It teaches the open-market lesson: the rivals are not the obstacle, the product and capacity are. A brand that gets the product right and grows with the category takes customers nobody else has yet.
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