Sports Direct news
17 Dec 2025
Everlast Gyms+ will be opening a site at shopping and leisure destination, Trafford Palazzo, early
04 Jul 2025
Everlast Gyms is partnering with Hyrox to roll out 60 Performance Centers across the UK
07 Jun 2024
Co-founders of specialist gym and fitness wear company, WIT Fitness, have returned to the brand
06 Jun 2024
The UK health and fitness is performing well, especially the private sector, with member numbers,
08 Feb 2024
Frasers Group, owner of Everlast Gyms, has acquired the assets of WIT Fitness from administrators
17 Nov 2023
Everlast Gyms today (16 November) opened a new flagship property at the Metro Centre in
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
12 Jul 2023
Charitable leisure trust, Horizon Leisure, has acquired a former Sports Direct gym in Guildford and
23 Jun 2022
Barry’s has entered the world of retail, opening a studio in the new Flannels flagship
29 Jul 2016
High performance sport organisation, the Irish Institute of Sport, will be on the hunt for
15 Jun 2016
Cox Architecture will create a 3,000 capacity velodrome in Jakarta for the 2018 Asian Games
20 May 2016
DW Sports Fitness director Scott Best has moved into the booming boutique studio sector with
11 May 2016
A brand new body set up to represent the group fitness market has laid out
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
08 Mar 2016
It is almost impossible to keep all gym machines and free weights clean all the
23 Feb 2016
Sports equipment provider Youth Sport Direct has launched an introductory multi-sport wheelchair designed to encourage
16 Feb 2016
Football facilities specialist Dean Hogan has been named national contracts manager for Pulse and will
14 Jan 2016
British Military Fitness (BMF) has announced an innovative new partnership with Blacks Outdoor Retail to
22 Dec 2015
Retail giant John Lewis has poured cold water on speculation that it is planning a
10 Dec 2015
Sports Direct share have fallen by 13 per cent this morning, as roughly £500m was
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
09 Dec 2015
Mike Ashley has added to his budding Sports Direct Fitness empire with the acquisition of
08 Dec 2015
Asda’s plans to add in-store gyms as part of a push into the growing fitness
18 Nov 2015
Business secretary Sajid Javid has called on companies in the private sector to play a
17 Nov 2015
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has widened his burgeoning leisure portfolio by taking a 4.94
04 Nov 2015
DW Fitness has bought seven former LA fitness sites from Pure Gym, Health Club Managment
14 Oct 2015
Speculation is mounting that Fitness First could soon be up for sale, with owner Oaktree
09 Oct 2015
London-based fitness chain Soho Gyms has moved to draw a line under speculation of a
05 Oct 2015
Sports Direct Fitness is laying the foundations for its ‘aggressive’ expansion over the next year
22 Sep 2015
Health and fitness operators must redefine the boundaries of their market and embrace innovation if
14 Sep 2015
Sports Direct Fitness is planning an aggressive rollout of new health clubs in 2016, with
16 Jun 2015
Asda is bidding to help customers shed pounds from their waistline as well as their
29 May 2015
Pure Gym has emerged as the victor of the long-running race to acquire LA fitness.
27 May 2015
Boutique fitness studios pose a significant threat to traditional gyms, which have taken their eye
18 May 2015
Fitness First has pulled out of the race to acquire long-time gym chain rival LA
16 Apr 2015
Fitness First remains firmly in the running for the £80m race to capture LA fitness,
31 Mar 2015
Pure Gym is the reported frontrunner in a three-horse race to buy LA fitness for
30 Mar 2015
Pure Gym posted a strong set of financial results today (30 March), revealing that group
23 Mar 2015
Sports Direct is bidding to scale up its dual-use gym and retail concept – part
21 Jan 2015
Major health club brands such as LA Fitness, Fitness First, Anytime Fitness and Sports Direct
20 Jan 2015
In the latest example of physical activity becoming ever more affordable and accessible beyond the
07 Jan 2015
It’s all change at The Bannatyne Group, where just days after Health Club Management revealed
30 Oct 2014
Sports Direct’s gym chain – Sports Direct Fitness – has revealed more elements of its
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
bespoke training space for its new club at The Whiteley
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David Lloyd is stepping up its commitment to women’s health as it continues to explore what fit-for-purpose looks like for the female population
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Greg Bradley looks at the shift towards strength training in gyms and advises on how operators can create the ultimate training environment
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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Active IQ is calling for greater accountability in online fitness advice with the launch of a new trustmark
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New launch, Salus House, elevates boutique wellness with
high service levels and a partnership with Technogym
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Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce
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Small improvements to sleep, diet and physical activity have major benefits for the heart, according to new research from the University of Sydney
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If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
– and that wellbeing rests with
us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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Jamie Clements
The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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Stephen Price
Founder, SP&Co Group“Working in public health over the last few years has lit up parts of my brain again”
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As the entrepreneur who started Wexer, Fresh Fitness, Fitness DK and Repeat, as well as being a former elite athlete, Rasmus Ingerslev’s life looked perfect from the outside, but onthe inside it was a different story. He talks to Kath Hudson about healing old wounds
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Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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For every member with a tripod and a big following, there are others irritated at the way equipment is being hogged or wary they’ll be in the background on someone’s Insta feed. Do influencers offer valuable, free marketing or are they just a nuisance? Kath Hudson finds out how operators are responding
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Consolidation, specialisation and shifting consumer behaviours
are reshaping the sector, say Deloitte and EuropeActive
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Julie Cramer highlights
recent health club flooring
upgrades, as top suppliers
give their advice
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“Strength training has moved from the margins to the mainstream.”
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Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
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One of the biggest mistakes the fitness industry still makes is advertising almost
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