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KFC restaurants nationwide will add Beyond Meat’s plant-based chicken to its menus, starting Monday for a limited time. The launch comes after years of testing from the Yum Brands chain and Beyond Meat to create a meat substitute that mimicked the taste and texture of whole muscle chicken, like chicken breast, rather than the ground-up consistency of nuggets. Read...

Beyond Meat has announced the appointment of food industry veteran Jorg Oostdam to the newly created position of General Manager, Europe. With more than two decades of experience in the food and retail sector, including a 15-year tenure at Mars, Incorporated, Oostdam will drive Beyond Meat’s expansion in Europe and accelerate its strategic growth worldwide. Read...

Doug Ramsey and Bernie Adcock, who put in a combined 61 years at Tyson Foods, have left the company to take executive positions at Beyond Meat. Beyond Meat it is aggressively trying to scale its operations and commercialization in the U.S., European Union, and China. Ramsey most recently led Tyson’s troubled chicken business as president of that business unit from 2017 until May when he took over the leadership of McDonald’s international business at Tyson Foods. He is joining Beyond Meat as its chief operating officer. Adcock logged about 30 years at Tyson Foods working his way up to integrated supply chain officer. He is taking a newly created role at Beyond Meat as the company’s first chief supply chain officer. Read...