Beyond Meat® Expands Availability of Beyond Chicken® Tenders at over 8,000 New Outlets Nationwide, Including Grocery, Pharmacy and Club Stores
April 12 2022 - 8:00AM
Beyond Meat, Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND), a leader in plant-based meat,
today announced that it is significantly increasing the
availability of its Beyond Chicken
® Tenders at
leading retail outlets across the country, including supermarkets,
pharmacies and club stores. Starting today, Beyond Chicken Tenders
are available at select Albertsons, CVS, Sprouts and Whole Foods
Market stores nationwide, and are expanding into all Kroger banners
throughout April. With this expansion, Beyond Meat, the #1 selling
plant-based meat brand in the refrigerated category in retail1 and
across total foodservice2, continues to increase accessibility to
delicious plant-based protein for consumers everywhere.
Beyond Chicken Tenders deliver the crispy, juicy
and flavorful chicken tender experience consumers know and love,
with the added nutritional and environmental benefits of
plant-based meat. Made from simple, plant-based ingredients, Beyond
Chicken Tenders have 50% less saturated fat than the leading brand
of traditional breaded chicken nuggets, and no antibiotics,
hormones or cholesterol. The protein in Beyond Chicken Tenders is
derived from the nutrition-packed faba bean, an optimal ingredient
for replicating the taste and texture of traditional chicken
tenders.
“Building on the positive momentum of our recent
chicken launches, we’re excited to significantly expand the
availability of our Beyond Chicken Tenders by showing up in more
places for our consumers – from their favorite supermarket or
drugstore, to large warehouse clubs – making delicious, nutritious
and sustainable plant-based meat more accessible than ever before,”
said Deanna Jurgens, Chief Growth Officer, Beyond Meat.
Beyond Chicken Tenders were first introduced to
retail in 2021 in outlets like Walmart, Jewel-Osco, Safeway NorCal,
Harris Teeter, Giant Food and ShopRite following a successful debut
in restaurants across the country. In recognition of its
groundbreaking taste and versatility, the National Restaurant
Association Show awarded Beyond Chicken Tenders the prestigious
2021 FABI Food and Beverage award.
Additionally, Beyond Meat has rolled out a
series of successful poultry innovations via limited time offers at
popular restaurant chains across North America including Beyond™
The Original Orange Chicken™ at Panda Express across 10 markets and
Beyond Meat Nuggets at all A&W Canada stores nationwide in 2021
and Beyond Fried Chicken® at KFC locations throughout the US in
2022.
As the U.S. plant-based meat company with the
highest brand awareness3, Beyond Meat is helping to champion a more
sustainable food system and drive the category forward with its
innovative new chicken products.
Beyond Chicken Tenders come pre-cooked,
ready-to-heat in the air fryer, oven or microwave for a
crowd-pleasing meal that’s ready in under 10 minutes. Check out
Beyond Meat’s recipe page for cooking inspiration. To find Beyond
Chicken Tenders at a retailer near you, visit Beyond Meat’s store
locator.
About Beyond MeatBeyond Meat,
Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND) is a leading plant-based meat company offering
a portfolio of revolutionary plant-based meats made from simple
ingredients without GMOs, hormones, antibiotics or cholesterol.
Founded in 2009, Beyond Meat products are designed to have the same
taste and texture as animal-based meat while being better for
people and the planet. Beyond Meat’s brand commitment, Eat What You
Love®, represents a strong belief that there is a better way to
feed our future and that the positive choices we all make, no
matter how small, can have a great impact on our personal health
and the health of our planet. By shifting from animal-based meat to
plant-based protein, we can positively impact four growing global
issues: human health, climate change, constraints on natural
resources and animal welfare. As of December 2021, Beyond Meat had
products available at approximately 130,000 retail and foodservice
outlets in over 90 countries worldwide. Visit www.BeyondMeat.com
and follow @BeyondMeat, #BeyondBurger and #GoBeyond on Facebook,
Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
Beyond Meat Forward Looking
StatementsCertain statements in this release constitute
“forward-looking statements.” These statements are based on
management’s current opinions, expectations, beliefs, plans,
objectives, assumptions or projections regarding future events or
future results. These forward-looking statements are only
predictions, not historical fact, and involve certain risks and
uncertainties, as well as assumptions. Actual results, levels of
activity, performance, achievements and events could differ
materially from those stated, anticipated or implied by such
forward-looking statements. While Beyond Meat believes that its
assumptions are reasonable, it is very difficult to predict the
impact of known factors, and, of course, it is impossible to
anticipate all factors that could affect actual results. There are
many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from forward-looking statements made herein
including, most prominently, the risks discussed under the heading
“Risk Factors” in Beyond Meat's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2021 filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 2, 2022, as well as other
factors described from time to time in Beyond Meat’s filings with
the SEC. Such forward-looking statements are made only as of the
date of this release. Beyond Meat undertakes no obligation to
publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement because of
new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise
required by law. If we do update one or more forward-looking
statements, no inference should be made that we will make
additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking
statements.
Media Contact: Shira
Zackaishira.zackai@beyondmeat.com
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1 SPINS 52 weeks ending 3/20/22, Total US MULO and NEC2 The NPD
Group/SupplyTrack® 52 weeks ending 2/26/22 plant-based proteins,
Total US excluding food stores and commercial large chains3 Bovitz
Brand Awareness Study, January 2022, n=1,004
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