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26 Mar 2024
Total Fitness has released results for its most recent financial year (to June 23), which
16 Mar 2024
Will Orr, CEO of The Gym Group, has revealed the company’s full-year results for 2023,
11 Jan 2024
The Gym Group has announced its positive H1 trading trends have continued, with year end
21 Dec 2023
The Gym Group has become the first fitness operator in the world to have its
21 Nov 2023
JD Gyms, part of listed company, JD Sports Fashion plc, has sold UAE health club
09 Sep 2023
Members of Crunch Fitness gyms can now enter their club using the Amazon One palm
Panatta will consolidate its global presence throughout 2024 by attending a host of major industry
01 Sep 2023
PureGym added 190,000 new members in the first half of 2023 when compared with H1
The Brawn Games – due to be hosted at the Ministry of Sound on 13
14 Jul 2023
Fitness First has filed a Court Order for restructuring at Companies House in the UK
Fitness education provider Study Active is delighted to be teaming up with The Gym Group,
03 May 2023
Fitness First UK has confirmed to HCM that it's in the process of restructuring, citing
17 Mar 2023
The Gym Group saw an upswing in EBITDA, to £38m for 2022, well above the
Study Active has legally acquired the name “Premier Global” and select Premier Global branding assets
13 Jan 2023
Richard Darwin is to step down from his role as CEO of The Gym Group
21 Oct 2022
Private gym chain New York Sports Clubs (NYSC) has acquired boutique brand Fhitting Room, which
12 Jul 2022
A new report – Optimising personalisation using fitness personas – which defines four key gym-goer
28 Jun 2022
Ultimate Performance (UP) – the private gym chain and PT business – has opened a
23 Jun 2022
Barry’s has entered the world of retail, opening a studio in the new Flannels flagship
ACTIV, a gym chain in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which operates separate gyms for men and
Elevate, the premier event in the physical activity, fitness, sports therapy and performance sector, is
21 Apr 2022
Pure Gym has revealed it's planning to double the number of clubs in its portfolio,
22 Mar 2022
The health, fitness and activity sector is ramping up its sustainability drive to net-zero with
18 Mar 2022
The Gym Group has published its full-year results for 2021 and announced plans to open
15 Nov 2021
Polish corporate wellness platform Benefit Systems has taken over a majority stake in club operator
30 Jul 2021
German fitness operator BestFit Group has acquired regional gym chain EuroFit for an undisclosed sum.
10 Jun 2021
Hong Kong-based Bricks Group has revealed plans to launch its health club chain, UTime, in
22 Mar 2021
The UK parliament will today (22 March) debate the merits of a Work Out to
16 Feb 2021
PureGym expects lockdowns to last "until at least 31 March" – and that it will
28 Dec 2020
Polish medical insurance outfit, Medicover, has rescued Polish operator, Fitness World, out of administration. The
28 Dec 2020
24 Hour Fitness will emerge from chapter 11 bankruptcy this week after the gym chain
27 Oct 2020
Europe's largest gym chain, Basic-Fit, has published its trading update for the first nine months
24 Aug 2020
Billionaire Mike Ashley's Frasers Group has acquired the fitness assets of DW Sports for £37m.
06 Aug 2020
Planet Fitness' share price on the New York Stock Exchange has remained steady at between
04 Aug 2020
Two of the largest health club operators in the US have announced that members and
03 Aug 2020
Europe's largest gym chain, Basic-Fit, has provided the European fitness sector with some optimism, after
01 Jul 2020
Mountainside Fitness in Arizona has filed a lawsuit against state's governor, Doug Ducey, after he
25 Jun 2020
A large-scale academic study has concluded that there is "no threat of increased COVID-19 spread"
20 May 2020
Gyms and health clubs in the US have begun reopening their doors, with a number
30 Dec 2019
Franchised gym chain UFC Gym is introducing compression recovery systems at some of its sites.
03 Dec 2019
Training provider Premier Global NASM and budget operator Pure Gym have partnered to launch a
22 Oct 2019
US-based fitness franchise UFC Gym has opened its first European club. The 18,000sq ft (1,670sq
28 May 2019
Brazilian gym chain SmartFit is set to speed up its expansion across South America. The
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Founder, The Lotte Berk Foundation“My mother was the first person to take dance and create an exercise programme out of it”
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A new study from researchers at Yale shows HIIT can reverse nerve damage caused by Parkinson’s
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Although there’s much talk about working with
health services, research from SLC suggests
there’s much work to do before the sector is
ready for the challenge. Kath Hudson asks the
experts to identify barriers and solutions
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Absenteeism and presenteeism is
taking a huge economic toll, with
musculoskeletal problems and poor
mental health the biggest issues.
Can workplace wellness make
a difference? Kath Hudson investigates
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Jennifer Maanavi
Founder, Physique 57“Our ‘why?’ is to improve the lives of our clients, not to make them feel defeated”
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Remember when there was mass hostility about London hosting the 2012 Olympics? Huw Edwards, CEO of UK Active, was there. He talks to Kath Hudson about the lessons he learned
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Property experts say it’s a golden moment for health and fitness operators
to secure leases, as the sector has come through the pandemic with its
reputation largely intact and clubs are seen as desirable anchor tenants.
Kath Hudson finds out why landlords want to talk
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New laws are about to come into force that will oblige health club operators to offer consumers better membership terms. It will be disruptive, but tackled well, will change the sector for the better
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You might be tempted to skip a service, but
experts say it will cost you in the long run.
Providers tell Steph Eaves why they their work
is important to the management of assets
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Liz Terry looks at which operators
are most recognised by consumers,
using Kantar’s latest brand insight
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