Alternative Meat Sales Soar Amid Pandemic
Grocery store popularity of alternative meat—like veggie burgers and plant-based proteins—has skyrocketed amid the pandemic in the U.S. with sales about doubling for top brands since President Trump declared a state of emergency on March 13; experts attribute this to consumers’ desire for sustainable and healthy food compounded by meat facility closures and supply chain disruption.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/05/04/alternative-meat-sales-soar-amid-pandemic/#bab777fedfd7
GATES and FAKE MEAT
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, which manages funds for the Gates Foundation to ensure that the charity generates enough financial return to cover its annual grant payouts, sold more than $24 million worth of Beyond Meat stock during the third quarter, a set of recent SEC filings by the trust and Beyond Meat revealed.
In the fake meat maker’s S-1 amendment filing dated July 31, entities controlled by Bill Gates transferred 252,000 shares of Beyond Meat stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust in July. The trust then sold 128,737 shares in the company’s secondary public offering on August 1 for $160 a share, which left the organization with 123,263 shares.
But a filing by the Gates Foundation Trust on November 14 showed that the trust held only 96,542 Beyond Meat shares on September 30, implying that it had sold 26,721 Beyond Meat shares during the third quarter in addition to the disclosed transaction on August 1.
The share price at which the Gates Foundation Trust sold the additional shares could be anywhere between $148 and $176, making the stake worth from $4 million to $4.7 million. Beyond Meat shares are currently trading at $76.
Bill Gates is one of the notable celebrities (along with actress Jessica Chastain, Jay Z and others) backing the burgeoning plant-based meat industry. Besides Beyond Meat, the billionaire is also an early investor in Impossible Foods, which is reportedly mulling an IPO soon.
https://observer.com/2019/12/bill-gates-foundation-sold-beyond-meat-stock-third-quarter-before-market-crash/#:~:text=In%20the%20fake%20meat%20maker's,Gates%20Foundation%20Trust%20in%20July.
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Have you wondered what Steyer is up to lately?
Tom is proud to serve Californians as Chief Advisor to the Governor on Business and Jobs Recovery and as Chair of the Governor's business and jobs recovery task force.
Together with Governor Newsom and his team, Tom is working to develop a fair, green, and forward-thinking economic strategy to help California recover as fast and as safely as possible from the COVID-19 induced recession.
This recovery plan will bring together the public and private sectors, outside experts, organized labor, environmental groups, activists and impacted constituency groups to develop an economic framework that works for all Californians, with an emphasis on those communities hardest hit by the pandemic — working families, communities of color, the unhoused, and low-income communities.
https://www.tomsteyer.com/california-economic-recovery/
Way back in 2018 Gates and Branson planned for fake meat to find a market. Doesn't it figure these two would work together. Too bad Branson is now stone broke. (sarc)
Bill Gates and Richard Branson are betting lab-grown meat might be the food of the future
PUBLISHED FRI, MAR 23 20189:52 AM EDT
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/bill-gates-and-richard-branson-bet-on-lab-grown-meat-startup.html