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In the early 1990s, a Swedish professor of food chemistry named Rickard Öste was working with a group of other scientists to research lactose, a sugar that’s found in milk that about two-thirds of adults can’t properly digest.

Rickard Öste joined forces with his brother Bjorn, a software engineer, to found a company that would bring oat milk to market.

Oatly was founded in 1994 by Rickard Oste, a professor of food chemistry and nutrition in Sweden, and his brother Bjorn Oste.

The vegan food and drink products maker, founded by brothers Rickard and Björn Öste in the 1990s, said the UK factory would have the capacity to grow and produce up to 450 million litres of drink per year.

The company was founded in 1994 by Rickard Öste, a researcher at the university of Lund.