Beyond Meat

Feel good slogans like this do get to the heart of the plant-based meat promise, that you don’t have to stop loving the taste of meat to stop supporting the meat industry. Unfortunately company revenue have not reflected that promise.Photo: Jesse Grant (Getty Images)Beyond Meat is looking a little thin lately, especially considering the repeated blows the fake meat market has taken since 2021. Now it’s becoming more clear the company’s profits have been butterflied and pounded into a thin morsel of what they once were.On…

Beyond Meat Inc. BYND -4.06% parted ways with its operating chief, who had been suspended after being arrested for allegedly biting a man’s nose and threatening to kill him. The plant-based meat company said Friday in a securities filing that Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey was no longer with the company. Beyond Meat suspended the executive last month after his arrest following what authorities said was a fight in an Arkansas…

Photo: AtlasStudio (Shutterstock)This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.Plastic recycling labels are everywhere: The ubiquitous “chasing arrows” symbol adorns everything from plastic bags and water bottles to kids’ toys.Most commonly, these symbols appear with a number — 1 through 7 — that identifies the type of plastic resin a product is made of. A number 1, for instance, corresponds to polyethylene terephthalate, or PET — the stuff that makes up water bottles.…

The executives were tasked with working to achieve cost savings as Beyond seeks to make some of its products match the price of traditional meat. Photo: Nam Y. Huh/Associated Press…

Thoughts and prayers for Beyond Meat in this trying time. The plant-based burger replacement company is currently swimming in struggle sauce. Doug Ramsey, Beyond’s chief operating officer, has been suspended from the company after being arrested for allegedly biting a man’s nose in a brawl. Then there’s the food-disruptor’s deepening financial woes.Ramsey reportedly got into a dispute while driving outside a college football game in Fayetteville, Arkansas. According to the police report, the Beyond exec was upset when…

Beyond Meat Inc.’s BYND -5.10% chief operating officer was arrested in Arkansas over the weekend, after a physical altercation in which he allegedly bit a person’s nose and threatened to kill him. Doug Ramsey, 53, of Fayetteville, Ark., was arrested Saturday night and charged with terroristic threatening and third-degree battery, records from Arkansas’s Washington County show. He was released the…

Beyond Meat said inflation is slowing down the company’s goal to eventually sell its vegan burgers and other products at the same price of meat. Photo: Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/Zuma Press…

CHICAGO—Beyond Meat Inc. is preparing to launch a sliced-steak product, expanding the company’s lineup of plant-based meat alternatives as it works to boost languishing sales.The California-based company plans to launch the steak product this year in retail stores and eventually in restaurants, Chief Executive Ethan Brown said Tuesday at The Wall Street Journal’s Global Food Forum. The sliced steak is intended to replicate whole pieces of meat, versus the company’s existing products that mimic sausages, tenders, burger…

Beyond Meat Inc. BYND -13.83% reported a wider-than-expected loss in its recently completed quarter because of higher spending, sending shares of the meat-alternative maker lower in after-hours trading. Beyond Meat Chief Executive Ethan Brown said cost-intensive measures the company took to support strategic launches weighed on its bottom line. “We recognize that the decisions we are making today in…