NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 17, 2025--
Factor, the world’s leading ready-to-eat meal delivery service, and Sakara, the premium plant-based whole food and wellness brand, today announced a strategic partnership to launch a new line of fresh, high-protein and high-fiber salads. Available exclusively for Factor customers, the Factor x Sakara salad lineup is designed to help support steady energy and focus through balanced nutrition with zero prep. The collaboration marks Factor’s latest step in redefining performance nutrition for everyone, bringing athlete-level quality to everyday eating.
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Factor and Sakara Upgrade Lunchtime with Launch of New High-Protein and High-Fiber Ready-to-Eat Salads
Factor and Sakara Upgrade Lunchtime with Launch of New High-Protein and High-Fiber Ready-to-Eat Salads
Available exclusively for Factor customers, the Factor x Sakara salad lineup is designed to help support steady energy and focus through balanced nutrition with zero prep.
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The new collection significantly expands Factor’s salad collection, bringing together Sakara’s vibrant culinary perspective and deep experience with clean, whole-food nutrition and Factor’s expertise in chef-prepared, dietician-approved meals. Each salad delivers a satisfying balance of protein, fiber, flavor, and freshness that fuels energy and focus without feeling heavy, offering up to 37 grams of protein and up to 12 grams of fiber per serving. The result is a globally-inspired, fresh, and elevated take on lunch that combines exceptional flavor with purposeful nutrition.
The Factor X Sakara salad collection includes the following offerings and will be available on a rotating weekly basis:
“As the leader in health-forward, ready-to-eat meals, Factor is all about making high-performance eating simple and craveable,” said Adam Park, CEO of Factor. “We set out to create the best possible salad experience for our customers, and by teaming up with Sakara, we combined our strengths to deliver fresh, flavorful salads that pair seamlessly with our entrees so customers can enjoy Factor for lunch too.”
“Sakara has been built on the foundation of whole-food nutrition and ingredient integrity,” says Kathryn Ordower, Co-CEO of Sakara. “We are so excited to embark on this collaboration with Factor, rooted in shared values around nourishment, quality, and convenience. Every Factor x Sakara meal reflects these values and features colorful, nutrient-diverse ingredients that align with Sakara’s Eat the Rainbow ethos. It’s a new way to make feeling good through food more accessible to a broader audience.”
“When we started Sakara from our tiny New York apartment more than a decade ago, our dream was simple: we wanted to help people fall in love with food that makes them feel truly alive, ” says Danielle DuBoise, Co-Founder of Sakara. “This partnership allows us to bring the Sakara philosophy - plant forward, science-backed, and rooted in joy - to a much wider audience. Together we will scale our impact and help more people experience what it feels like to be nourished and taken care of.”
To explore the Factor x Sakara salad collection and or learn more about Factor, visit www.factormeals.com.
ABOUT FACTOR
Factor is a fully-prepared meal delivery service that is taking a whole new approach to fresh-prepared food. The company’s weekly rotating menu of 100 weekly meals and 70+ add-on options, including smoothies, juices, snacks and more, are hand-crafted by gourmet chefs and optimized by dietitians. Factor delivers anywhere in the contiguous U.S. For more information, visit Factormeals.com.
About Sakara:
Sakara is a wellness company that goes beyond nutrition to offer a holistic lifestyle rooted in the highest-quality, whole-food ingredients. Founded by Whitney Tingle and Danielle DuBoise, Sakara is on a mission to empower people to live their most vibrant lives. Through premium nutrition programs, supplements, and other wellness offerings, Sakara continues to provide innovative solutions that nourish the whole body’s innate power. For more information, visit Sakara.com.
Factor and Sakara Upgrade Lunchtime with Launch of New High-Protein and High-Fiber Ready-to-Eat Salads
Factor and Sakara Upgrade Lunchtime with Launch of New High-Protein and High-Fiber Ready-to-Eat Salads
Available exclusively for Factor customers, the Factor x Sakara salad lineup is designed to help support steady energy and focus through balanced nutrition with zero prep.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks recovered most of their earlier losses as volatility returned to Wall Street after two days of solid gains.
The S&P 500 fell 0.1% after slumping as much as 1.5% in early trading Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 142 points, or 0.3% as of 2:06 p.m. Eastern. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%. Stocks in Europe and Asia finished lower.
Oil prices remained elevated although down from earlier highs. The price for a barrel of U.S. crude rose close to $114 a barrel at one point.
The unsettled trading follows a national address late Wednesday from President Donald Trump, where he vowed the U.S. will continue to attack Iran and failed to offer a clear timetable for ending the conflict in the Middle East. Those comments appeared to dim the hopes for a near-term conclusion to the war that had pushed stocks higher through most of the week.
Major indexes are still on track to close out the week with gains and it will mark the S&P 500's first winning week since the war with Iran began. Thursday is the last day of trading on Wall Street this week with with the stock market closed on Good Friday.
Crude oil prices have been the main force behind the sharp swings for stocks globally. Shipping traffic has been severely curtailed in the Strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world’s traded oil passes through during peacetime.
The price of Brent crude, the international standard, jumped 7.6% to $108.84 per barrel. Benchmark U.S. crude rose 11.6% to $111.77 per barrel. Prices had been sliding back toward $100 per barrel prior to Trump’s address on Wednesday. The U.S. only relies on the Persian Gulf for a fraction of the oil it imports, but oil is a commodity and prices are set in a global market. A disruption anywhere affects prices everywhere.
Stocks have been broadly sliding since the war began, with indexes often rising and falling sharply along with statements from Trump about the direction of the war. Just on Monday, the S&P 500 briefly neared a 10% drop from its record, a steep-enough fall that professional investors have a name for it: a “correction. The index gained ground Tuesday and Wednesday on hope that the war could end soon.
“For markets, a prolonged conflict increases the risk of sustained pressures on inflation, global growth, interest rates, and equity valuations,” wrote Adam Turnquist, chief technical strategist for LPL Financial, in a note to investors.
Airlines and other travel-related companies were among the biggest losers on Thursday. United Airlines fell 3.3% and Carnival shed 4.3%.
Tesla fell 5.5% after a report showing that sales over the past three months fell short of analysts' expectations.
Several big technology stocks gained ground to help offset losses elsewhere in the market. Intel jumped 3.8% and Advanced Micro Devices rose 2.4%.
Treasury yields remained relatively steady in the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to to 4.31% from 4.32%.
Wall Street is worried that higher energy prices are adding to already stubbornly high inflation. Rising fuel prices take a bigger chunk out of consumers' wallets in several ways. Directly, gasoline prices in the U.S. have surged 36 percent from a month ago to average $4.08 per gallon, according to the auto club AAA.
Indirectly, rising fuel prices tend to make a wide range of services and goods more expensive. Flights become more expensive as airlines raise ticket prices to offset rising fuel costs. Consumer goods become more expensive as shipping and transportation costs rise.
Inflation has been stubbornly above the Federal Reserve's 2% target. The war and its corresponding surge in energy prices effectively pushes inflation higher and that has dashed hopes for the Fed to cut interest rates. Wall Street had hoped for the central bank to cut rates in order to help offset a weakening job market. Lower interest rates could help stimulate the economy by lowering borrowing costs, but they also risk worsening inflation.
Traders came into 2026 forecasting several cuts to the Fed's benchmark interest rate, which influences rates for mortgages and other loans. They are now expecting the benchmark rate to remain steady this year.
The war with Iran has overshadowed many of the other moving pieces within the economy that the Fed and Wall Street have been monitoring. It remains a mixed picture. Reports this week revealed that consumers remain confident and are still spending, though inflation remains a big concern. A report Thursday showed that mortgage rates continue climbing, posing an obstacle for prospective home buyers. Another update Friday will give a more detailed view of the job market.
Associated Press journalists Chan Ho-Him and Matt Ott contributed to this report.
Fishing boats dot the sea as cargo ships, in the background, sail through the Arabian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz off the United Arab Emirates, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo)
Perople walk in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Thursday, April 2, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP Pool)
Persons walk in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Thursday, April 2, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
