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) — The U.S. stock market is slipping Thursday after oil prices resumed their climb.
The S&P 500 fell 0.3% and is on track for a fourth drop in five days after setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 83 points, or 0.2%, as of 1:01 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% lower.
A halt in the torrid run for stocks benefiting from the artificial-intelligence boom has slowed the U.S. market recently. Not even another better-than-expected profit report from Nvidia was enough to kick it back into gear.
The chip company reported stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected, while also forecasting revenue for the current quarter that cleared analysts’ estimates. “The buildout of AI factories — the largest infrastructure expansion in human history — is accelerating at extraordinary speed,” CEO Jensen Huang said.
But such performances and such talk have become routine, and Nvidia's stock swiveled between losses and gains before falling 1.4%.
Some analysts said the weakness may have simply been because investors were locking in profits after Nvidia’s stock had soared nearly 70% over the prior year, more than double the S&P 500’s 27% jump. The broad AI industry is also getting criticism for becoming too expensive, as well as too circular as Nvidia has bought ownership stakes in companies that use its own chips that drive Nvidia’s revenue.
Pressure built on Wall Street, meanwhile, as the price for a barrel of Brent crude oil climbed 1.7% to $106.81 and trimmed its loss for the week. Oil prices have been swinging up and down with uncertainty about how long the war with Iran will keep the Strait of Hormuz shut, which is preventing oil tankers from exiting the Persian Gulf to deliver crude.
The higher oil prices pushed Treasury yields upward in the bond market, resuming rises following a slowdown the day before.
Climbing yields have cranked up the pressure on financial markets worldwide. They're slowing economies and weighing on prices for stocks and all kinds of other investments. Besides driving up rates for mortgages, high yields could also curtail companies’ borrowing to build the AI data centers that have been supporting the U.S. economy’s growth recently.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.61% from 4.57% late Wednesday.
It had gotten near 4.63% in the morning, after a report gave the latest signal that the U.S. job market remains in better shape than economists expected. The number of U.S. workers applying for unemployment benefits last week unexpectedly declined in an indication of fewer layoffs.
But yields eased a bit following a mixed preliminary report showing weaker-than-expected growth for business activity among U.S. services businesses and improved growth for U.S. manufacturers. Companies are feeling the effects of accelerating inflation and are seeing subdued growth in their order books, the preliminary data from an S&P Global survey said.
“The damaging economic impact from the war in the Middle East is becoming increasingly evident in the business surveys,” according to Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Inflation is worsening even beyond the high oil prices caused by the Iran war, while U.S. households are showing widespread discouragement about the economy.
Elsewhere on Wall Street, Walmart fell 7.2% following its profit report. The retailer delivered another quarter of impressive revenue but offered up weaker forecasts for upcoming profit than analysts expected.
On the winning side of Wall Street was Ralph Lauren, which jumped 12.2% after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected.
In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed in Europe following bigger moves in Asia.
South Korea’s Kospi Kospi soared 8.4% thanks to strength for technology stocks. Samsung Electronics jumped 8.5% after its labor union and management reached an agreement late Wednesday that averted a strike. SK Hynix, a chip company partnering with Nvidia, surged 11.2%.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 jumped 3.1%, while indexes fell 1% in Hong Kong and 2% in Shanghai.
AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.
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