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21 Jun 2024
Belgian retail giant, Colruyt Group, is challenging the status quo of the fitness industry in
25 May 2024
The JD Gyms Group has completed a deal to acquire Simply Gym from Bay Leisure.
21 Oct 2021
The first énergie Fitness club has opened in Spain as part of a push for
19 Mar 2019
The Gym Group has tackled investor chatter about stagnation in market penetration by collaborating with
11 Jan 2018
Spanish firm Viva Gym has announced the acquisition of Portuguese brand Fitness Hut, creating the
05 Apr 2017
Low-cost gyms and boutique operations helped the European fitness market grow in 2016 as membership
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
14 Mar 2017
The Gym Group turned around losses of £12.7m (US$15.4m, €14.5m) for 2015 to post a
02 Mar 2017
The "annihilation" of mid-market fitness operators has been the biggest major change in the industry
09 Jan 2017
Budget gym operators with premises in Central London are paying 19 per cent more rent
08 Dec 2016
The growth in participation for hockey, netball and gymnastics has boosted the number of women
31 Aug 2016
The Gym Group has exchanged contracts to take over four sites from another operator –
31 Aug 2016
Growth in membership helped revenue at The Gym Group rise to £36.1m in the first
CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an on-demand personal
22 Oct 2015
The international health club market saw revenues grow by 5.3 per cent last year, according
04 Jun 2015
Fitness trainer to the stars Mark Anthony is planning to expand his low-cost gym concept
18 Mar 2014
One of the founders of Fitness First is investing in a new chain of American-inspired
08 Jan 2014
Bannatyne Group chair Duncan Bannatyne has sparked a lively debate among industry leaders over the
06 Dec 2013
Yorkshire-based gym chain, Xercise4Less has seen two additions to its board of directors. The new
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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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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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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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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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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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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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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The industry is embracing consumer-facing tech. Now it’s time to
streamline back-of-house systems with Orbit4, says Daniel Jones
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Performance Health Systems, manufacturer of Power Plate,
has a new CEO, with an ambitious vision for the company
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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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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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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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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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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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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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CEO, Les Mills“The Les Mills partnership with Hyrox is something I'm personally really excited about”
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Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy.
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