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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001655210-23-000066"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BYND"
cik: "0001655210"
company_name: "BEYOND MEAT, INC."
filed_at: "2023-04-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T03:39:32.582037+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Beyond Meat reduces stockholder meeting quorum to one-third of voting power

## Summary
- Board approved amended bylaws on April 9, 2023, effective same day.
- Quorum for stockholder meetings lowered from majority to one-third of voting power.
- Change intended to improve ability to hold stockholder meetings when called.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001655210-23-000066
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BYND
- cik: 0001655210
- company_name: BEYOND MEAT, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-04-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521023000066/0001655210-23-000066-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521023000066/bynd-20230409.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001655210-23-000066
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001655210-23-000066.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  BEYOND MEAT, INC.: Amended quorum requirement for stockholder meetings from majority to one-third of voting power (effective 2023-04-09).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-04-09
  source text: Article I, Section 1.5 of the Bylaws was amended to modify the quorum required for the transaction of business at a meeting of stockholders of the Company to provide that the presence, in person or by proxy, of holders of one-third (1/3 rd) of the voting power of the shares of stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the meeting will constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at such meeting
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521023000066/0001655210-23-000066-index.htm

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