Factor and Dartmouth College Announce Partnership to Fuel Student Success with 24/7 Access to Fresh, Nutritious Meals

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 11, 2025--

Factor, America’s leading fresh prepared meal delivery service, and Dartmouth College are excited to announce a strategic partnership that is transforming convenient, healthy campus dining for students, staff, and athletes. Through Dartmouth’s introduction of new Smart Fridges across campus, they are now providing dietitian-designed Factor meals, snacks, and beverages available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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The Factor partnership and Dartmouth’s Smart Fridge solution helps meet the demanding schedules of the college community. It offers essential support for student-athletes with intense training regimens, students with late-night study sessions, faculty working late, and staff requiring accessible and flexible meal options. The Factor-stocked Smart Fridges are strategically located in high-traffic areas across campus, including residence halls, athletic centers, and academic buildings.

“Dartmouth Dining is thrilled to partner with Factor to offer their high-quality fresh meals and food items to our student population in our smart fridge pods across the campus,” said Jon Plodzik, Director of Dining at Dartmouth College. “Factor has proven to be an extremely popular brand within our offerings and truly fills many of the nourishment needs requested at all hours of the day. Our students and staff just love it.”

Factor Fuels Student Performance

The partnership underscores both Factor’s commitment to making healthy eating an accessible tool and Dartmouth’s commitment to providing superior campus resources that support the well-being of its community. By providing fresh, nutritious, ready-to-heat meals at any hour, Factor and Dartmouth are supporting the success of its students.

Strategic Growth Through Diversified Distribution

This partnership in higher education is a key element of Factor’s strategy to diversify its distribution beyond direct-to-consumer delivery and into new channels such as campuses, hospitals, residential buildings, hospitality, corporate offices, and retail locations.

"We are incredibly proud to partner with Dartmouth College," said Adam Park, Managing Director for Factor US. "This collaboration is a demonstration of how Factor continues to evolve its business model to make healthy eating an accessible tool for students and student athletes. We are committed to using this blueprint to extend our campus footprint to even more universities next year and continue to support the well-being of students and faculty."

While Factor successfully provides fresh prepared meals to traditional campus cafeterias at many academic institutions nationwide, the Dartmouth partnership represents a full solution approach. Branded Smart Fridges are a scalable business-to-business solution that meet the evolving demands for immediate, fresh food options in non-traditional settings.

To learn more about how Factor is supporting universities and businesses, visit https://www.factor75.com/pages/factor-for-business.

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 HELLOFRESH GROUP

The HelloFresh Group is a global digital-native CPG company and the world's leading meal kit provider. The HelloFresh Group consists of eight brands that provide customers with high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions. The Company was founded in Berlin in November 2011 and operates in the USA, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, France, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Ireland and Spain. In Q2 2025, the HelloFresh Group delivered c. 215 million meals globally. HelloFresh SE went public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in November 2017 and is currently traded on the MDAX (Mid-Cap German Stock Market Index). For more information, visit www.hellofreshgroup.com.

Dartmouth and Factor Smart Fridges Provide 24/7 Access to Fresh, Nutritious Meals

MIAMI (AP) — The Boston Celtics had a first quarter like none other in their storied history.

The Celtics scored 53 points — their biggest-scoring first quarter ever — in the opening 12 minutes of their game against the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.

Boston's barrage is now tied for the second-highest-scoring first quarter in NBA regular-season history. Golden State had a 55-point opening quarter at Portland on April 9, 2023, and Miami had a 53-point opening quarter against Charlotte on Nov. 7.

“Getting to the paint, getting to the basket and finishing. I think that was the catalyst,” Celtics forward Jaylen Brown said.

The Celtics went on to win 147-129, after seeing what was a 27-point lead trimmed to nine early in the fourth before pulling away again in the final minutes.

“I thought we executed pretty well,” Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said. “There's times when you execute well and you get good shot after good shot. It just kind of happens. Usually when you’re in moments like that and you start to feel it, you take poor shots. We didn’t do that. We kept fighting for a good look, the next best look and I thought that kind of kept the momentum going a little bit.”

Boston led 53-33 at the end of the quarter, after shooting 20 for 28 from the field and 11 for 15 from 3-point range.

The 53 first-quarter points was the second-highest total Boston ever had in a quarter; the Celtics had 54 in the fourth period of a game against the San Diego Clippers on Feb. 25, 1970. And it was the most points Miami ever allowed in any quarter; the Heat gave up 50 in the fourth quarter of a game at Seattle on Jan. 5, 1990.

Boston made 11 3-pointers in the opening quarter, with Sam Hauser going 5 for 5 from beyond the arc while playing all 12 minutes. Brown had 20 points by himself in the quarter — the ninth 20-point quarter of his career, including playoffs — and Hauser finished with 17 in the quarter.

“Sam has been really shooting the ball really well all season. ... Sam has been in his bag,” Brown said.

Brown ended up with 43 points for the Celtics, and Jayson Tatum had a 28-point, 18-rebound, 11-assist triple-double — his first of the season, after missing much of the year while recovering from the Achilles tendon tear he suffered in last season's playoffs.

“It was just high-level shotmaking on both ends,” Tatum said.

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Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown (7) goes tot he basket as Miami Heat guard Pelle Larsson, left, and center Bam Adebayo, right, defend during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla, left talks with forward Jayson Tatum (0) during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)