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06 Apr 2020
London Transport Museum’s doors may be closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the collection
06 Apr 2020
1Rebel, the London-based boutique studio operator, has announced a new initiative to help support its
03 Apr 2020
After seven years and a £300m investment, super-boutique hotel, The Londoner, is taking shape in
01 Apr 2020
HNNA have unveiled designs for the London Design District, which was conceived by developer Knight
01 Apr 2020
Warwickshire County Cricket Club has announced a new three-year official kit supplier partnership with PlayerLayer,
31 Mar 2020
KSS Architects has partnered with Rainbow Design, a London-based furniture supplier, to create the 1885
10 Mar 2020
Incorpore and MoveGB are pleased to announce they have entered into a landmark partnership, combining
31 Mar 2020
Chelsea Football Club has put its plans to build a new stadium on hold until
27 Mar 2020
The Tom Dixon-designed agua London spa has launched a new treatment menu drawing inspiration from
26 Mar 2020
Fashionizer Spa, a supplier of high-end uniforms for spas and hotels, has temporarily ceased production
26 Mar 2020
Be Military Fit with Bear Grylls (BMF) will activate its network of ex-armed forces personnel
23 Mar 2020
The London Centre for Music, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, has received a funding
20 Mar 2020
The heads of several major organisations, including The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), the
06 Apr 2020
The newly refurbished Aberdeen Sports Village (ASV) has undergone a £500,000 overhaul to enable it
20 Mar 2020
London's Natural History Museum (NHM) is set to build a new science and digitisation centre,
20 Mar 2020
A number of UK leisure companies and operators have launched initiatives to help ease the
20 Mar 2020
1Rebel co-founder, James Balfour, has today made an open offer to the NHS, saying he
19 Mar 2020
Fitness and physical activity operators in the UK have begun closing facilities and cancelling events,
19 Mar 2020
A 152-room luxury hotel, designed by Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA), recently opened in an 1820s
16 Mar 2020
The English National Ballet (ENB) has moved into a new £27m ($33m, €30m) home in
18 Feb 2020
With office workers spending over eight hours per day sitting at their desks, and one
13 Mar 2020
Almost 700 figures from arts and cultural organisations across the UK have raised objections to
12 Mar 2020
The residential offering of the South Bank of London's River Thames is set to be
11 Mar 2020
Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay will reveal a new-look spa themed on healing,
11 Mar 2020
Jenny Waldman has been named the successor to Stephen Deuchar, as Art Fund director, with
11 Mar 2020
The coronavirus is beginning to have real-term effects on the UK's leisure industry, as the
11 Mar 2020
Researchers have discovered a genetic mutation that could reduce a patient’s ability to exercise efficiently.
09 Mar 2020
Italian skincare brand Comfort Zone partnered with TOBEFRANK (TBF), a positive fashion brand, at London
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“We’ve gathered inspiration from dedicated boutique fitness studios around the world in order to create our three distinct studios”
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Pulse Fitness has collaborated with luxury health club operator Third Space
to supply state-the-art strength equipment to its new site in London
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Consumers are seeking varied, effective workouts. It’s time to take a new approach to designing fitness areas, as Physical Company’s James Anderson explains
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Body scanning
Body scanning has become a major fitness trend, offering both operators and members alike insight into their body composition, muscle mass and fat percentage. Operators offering body scanning share their experiences
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The CEO of Basic-Fit shared insights into the workings of the company at the
Virtuagym FitNation conference in Amsterdam. Megan Whitby was there for HCM
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DiR Clubs – the largest fitness operator in Spain – appointed fisikal as its digital partner in 2019, with a 12 month plan for integration. As phase one comes to an end, we talk to Jordi Forns,
co-director of fitness clubs at DiR, about why the brand committed to such a fundamental change
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Adala Bolto
Founder, ZADI Training“I saw the need to create a bespoke, female-specific and results-driven boutique offering that was on-trend as well as being sexy and backed by exercise science when it came to getting results”
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Aaron Brooks-Thornett
Freely Given PT: founder“A donation-based payment system creates a
non-discriminatory environment and empowers people to give what they think the service is worth. This also challenges me to keep service levels high”
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“It’s no mistake that many successful boutiques have a baller brand strategist sitting at their core”
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Ed Stanbury
BLOK: CEO and co-founder“Although we’re now ambitious about creating a global lifestyle brand, initially there wasn’t a grand masterplan – we just thought it would be fun to open a local gym and that has spiralled...”
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Tom Moos
Founder, Saints & Stars“We have 14 rockstar instructors, all freelance but all working for us on an exclusive basis, and haven’t lost a single one of them since we opened. We pay them well – they can earn €100+ for a full class. But even more important than that, they all feel involved in the business”
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Juliu Horvath
Founder, Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis methods“Gyrotonic has continued to grow via word of mouth. I quickly had people from all sorts of backgrounds and all kinds of disabilities coming to me who the medical community couldn’t help. As I came across different people with different problems and limitations, I started to adapt the technique”
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Duncan Jefford
Regional Director, Everyone Active“People don’t want to just come in and run on a treadmill or sit on a bike, they want an experience”
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Glen Hall
MD, Parkwood Leisure
In addition to being one of the UK’s largest leisure management companies,
Parkwood Leisure is also a health and fitness operator at scale, with 73 gyms and over
100,000 members. MD Glen Hall tells HCM how two major reviews in recent years
have put the company on a new path
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