Plant-based milk, cheese & eggs
Oat, soy and almond milks, yogurt, cheese, creamers and mung-bean egg (Oatly, Silk, Daiya, Just Egg); the largest segment by sales
4 leading companies in plant-based milk, cheese & eggs, one segment of alternative protein — Plant-based, fermented and cultivated meat and dairy: a $28.9B global retail market, now shrinking in the US
new market segment · researched 2026-11-14
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Leading plant-based milk, cheese & eggs companies
4 companies, with the scale each source states. Scale is the whole company's unless the row says otherwise.
| Company | Where | What they do | Scale |
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| Oatly Group AB OTLY ↗ | Malmö, Sweden since 1994 | Oat-based milk and other dairy alternatives sold internationally | revenue: 862.5 USD millions (IFRS, FY2025; FY2024 was $823.7M) (2025) ↗ |
| Silk (Danone North America) ↗ | United States since 1977 | North American plant milk brand (soy, almond, oat); in 2025 Danone launched Silk Protein, a high-protein blend | — |
| Daiya Foods ↗ | Burnaby, Canada since 2008 | Plant-based dairy alternatives such as cheese, sold at retail, in foodservice and as ingredients | — |
| Eat Just (Just Egg, GOOD Meat) ↗ | Alameda, United States since 2011 | Just Egg (mung-bean egg), Just Meat plant-based chicken (from 2025), and GOOD Meat cultivated chicken, the world's first to get regulatory approval (Singapore, 2020) | — |
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The alternative protein market
The whole market this segment sits in.
global revenue (retail sales: plant-based meat, seafood, milk, yogurt, ice cream, cheese) · world28.9
↗USD billions · 2025
Growth, segments, risks and every company in alternative protein →
Quick answers
- What are plant-based milk, cheese & eggs?
- Oat, soy and almond milks, yogurt, cheese, creamers and mung-bean egg (Oatly, Silk, Daiya, Just Egg); the largest segment by sales. They are one segment of the alternative protein market.
- Who are the leading plant-based milk, cheese & eggs companies?
- Oatly Group AB (Sweden), Silk (Danone North America) (United States), Daiya Foods (Canada), Eat Just (Just Egg, GOOD Meat) (United States).
- Which plant-based milk, cheese & eggs companies are publicly traded?
- Oatly Group AB (OTLY).
- Which Canadian companies are in plant-based milk, cheese & eggs?
- Daiya Foods, Burnaby.
- How big is the alternative protein market?
- For the whole alternative protein market, not this segment alone: global revenue (retail sales: plant-based meat, seafood, milk, yogurt, ice cream, cheese) (world) 28.9 USD billions, 2025 — The Good Food Institute.