Plant-based Beyond Meat products seen in a Target superstore. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) The Beyond Meat executive charged with biting a man's nose during a fight last month left the plant-based meat company Friday amid a larger round of job cuts as the company seeks tries to offset a decline in sales.Doug Ramsey, a former Tyson Foods executive who joined Beyond Meat as its chief operating officer late last year, was charged with felony battery and making a terroristic threat after a Sept.
17 fight in a parking garage at the University of Arkansas.Beyond Meat suspended Ramsey a few days later. On Friday, Beyond Meat said in a regulatory filing that Ramsey was leaving the company.
Ramsey is scheduled to appear in court next week.The news came as Beyond Meat announced a second round of job cuts and trimmed its revenue expectations for the year.The company said Friday that 200 job cuts, which amount to about 19% of its total global workforce, will be mostly completed by the end of the year.
It cited record inflation as well as increased competition and lower demand for plant-based meat.READ MORE: McDonald’s pulls Beyond Meat ‘McPlant’ burgers after trial runBeyond Meat Inc.