---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001655210-23-000118"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BYND"
cik: "0001655210"
company_name: "BEYOND MEAT, INC."
filed_at: "2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T13:06:54.568826+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Seth Goldman re-elected with 62.7% support; say-on-pay passes 87.8%

## Summary
- Director Seth Goldman received 7,625,461 votes for, 4,537,317 withheld (62.7% support).
- Directors C. James Koch and Kathy N. Waller re-elected with 97.1% and 90.9% support respectively.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as auditor: 27,434,653 for (97.7% of votes cast).
- Advisory say-on-pay approved: 10,548,716 for, 1,467,574 against (87.8% approval of votes cast).
- Broker non-votes of 15,920,102 recorded for director and say-on-pay proposals.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001655210-23-000118
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BYND
- cik: 0001655210
- company_name: BEYOND MEAT, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521023000118/0001655210-23-000118-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521023000118/bynd-20230524.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  BEYOND MEAT, INC. shareholders approved Election of Class I directors at the 2023-05-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-24
  source text: Proposal 1: The Company’s stockholders elected each of the following directors as Class I directors to serve until the Company’s 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors have been duly elected and qualified by the following votes: NOMINEE FOR WITHHELD BROKER NON-VOTES Seth Goldman 7,625,461 4,537,317 15,920,102 C. James Koch 11,810,203 352,575 15,920,102 Kathy N. Waller 11,053,187 1,109,591 15,920,102
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521023000118/0001655210-23-000118-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BEYOND MEAT, INC. shareholders approved Non-binding advisory vote to approve compensation of named executive officers at the 2023-05-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-24
  source text: Proposal 3: The Company’s stockholders voted, on a non-binding advisory basis, to approve the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, by the following votes: FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN BROKER NON-VOTES 10,548,716 1,467,574 146,488 15,920,102
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521023000118/0001655210-23-000118-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BEYOND MEAT, INC. shareholders approved Ratification of appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for 2023 at the 2023-05-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-24
  source text: Proposal 2: The Company’s stockholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023 by the following votes: FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN BROKER NON-VOTES 27,434,653 363,947 284,280 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1655210/000165521023000118/0001655210-23-000118-index.htm

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