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03 Jun 2026
Australia’s fast-growing fitness network, Viva Leisure, is adding a low-cost gym brand to its already
30 Mar 2026
Large parts of the mainstream gym model still do not fit the realities of many
10 Feb 2026
The UK fitness industry has significant headroom for growth, consumers are prioritising their spend on
05 Jan 2026
JD Gyms is delivering 'sector-leading metrics' as well as record pre-tax profits, turnover and EBITDA
23 Oct 2025
Physiologist and co-founder of Future Practice and Pillar Wellbeing, Oli Patrick opened the HCM Summit
23 Oct 2025
After a networking breakfast, Leisure Media CEO, Liz Terry and PureGym chair, Humphrey Cobbold, have
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
28 Feb 2025
Total Fitness grew revenue by 15 per cent year-on-year in 2024, to £46.1 million, thanks
21 Jan 2025
Polish fitness franchise business, Xtreme Fitness Gyms, has hit the milestone of 100 sites and
02 Jan 2025
Snap Fitness is kicking off 2025 with the launch of four signature group exercise classes,
27 Apr 2024
The Bannatyne Group says it has officially bounced back from the pandemic, with both turnover
10 Dec 2022
The revival of a classic UK health and fitness brand will see Topnotch Health Clubs
26 Jul 2022
Total Fitness says its membership numbers are back to pre-COVID-19 levels. With fifteen clubs in
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
25 May 2022
The Gym Group’s (TGG) plans and profit forecasts were presented to analysts and investors during
21 Oct 2021
The first énergie Fitness club has opened in Spain as part of a push for
11 Jul 2021
Holmes Place has confirmed to HCM that it has disposed of 10 clubs from its
01 Sep 2020
Stuart Perrin, a former Xercise4Less COO, has launched a new affordable boutique studio concept with
13 Dec 2019
Mid-market health club operator Total Fitness has acquired Pro-Fit Personal Training. The deal follows a
07 Nov 2019
Low-cost operator Basic-Fit is set to speed up its expansion plans across the European market.
Celebrating its milestone fifth anniversary, W3Fit EMEA returns in 2026 with an unmissable gathering of
02 Jul 2019
Basic-Fit, one of the biggest fitness operators in Europe, has confirmed the completion of its
02 May 2019
Online fitness marketplace PayAsUGym is to undergo a rebrand as the service shifts its focus
08 Apr 2019
As reported in HCM earlier this month, the European health and fitness market continued to
10 Aug 2018
Twenty-four-hour gym franchise Snap Fitness has continued its UK expansion by securing its first club
11 Jun 2018
A focus on ‘affordable luxury’ has seen health club operator The Bannatyne Group achieve its
03 May 2018
Reiver Fitness has appointed Jim Graham, former chief operating officer of The Gym Group, as
09 Feb 2018
Twenty-four-hour gym franchise Snap Fitness UK has announced plans for 34 more clubs in 2018,
11 Jan 2018
Budget operators are shaping the fitness landscape in Germany, with six of the top 10
17 May 2017
The DW Group has appointed Martin Long as its chief executive officer. Long led the
08 May 2017
Martin Seibold, the managing director of Fitness First UK, has left the company eight months
06 Mar 2017
TDR Capital, the owner of the David Lloyd gyms, is gearing up to sell the
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
01 Dec 2016
Virgin Active has launched its latest full-service Collection club in the re-generated Silo District in
17 Oct 2016
Leisure facility management group 3d Leisure has continued the roll-out of its in-house brand, which
28 Sep 2016
Health club operator Holmes Place has acquired Israel’s second largest fitness chain, Future Wave Fitness,
02 Sep 2016
The long-running saga of the sale of Fitness First’s UK clubs looks to be in
28 Aug 2016
The fate of Fitness First looks likely to be settled within weeks. Industry sources indicate
01 Jul 2016
The potential takeover of Fitness First UK by Dave Whelan’s DW Sports would mark the
16 May 2016
The UK’s gyms and health clubs have more members than ever before, with a record
13 Apr 2016
The Bannatyne Group is sizing up a £300m float on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM)
04 Apr 2016
Fitness First’s fruitless bid to acquire rival LA fitness has proved a ‘blessing in disguise’
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
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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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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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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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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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New launch, Salus House, elevates boutique wellness with
high service levels and a partnership with Technogym
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driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
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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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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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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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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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HCM People
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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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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HCM People
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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UK market penetration has risen to 18 per cent – one of the highest
globally, yet with 100 per cent of people seeing benefits when they
exercise, how high could it go? Kath Hudson asks the experts…
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Phillip Mills
CEO, Les Mills“The Les Mills partnership with Hyrox is something I'm personally really excited about”
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