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Optisport opens first club outside the Netherlands
Dutch leisure management contractor Optisport has opened its first facility outside of Holland. The Optisport Health Club in Hanover, Germany, opened last month after an €11m (£9.7m, US$14.1m) renovation undertaken by Pellikaan Construction.
The two-storey, 4,000sq m club offers a Technogym-equipped fitness suite, a sauna with seven cabins, physiotherapy facilities, two indoor pools and two outdoor pools. The club also has a 2,000sq m outdoor area.
Targeting the mid-market, the €69 all-inclusive monthly membership fee covers the health club, sauna, swimming pool, childcare and soft drinks.
Three more sites are scheduled to open in Germany in 2009 and 2010, with another three opening in Holland in the same time frame. Optisport is also looking at Belgium and the UK as possible new markets, with take-overs an option according to director Theo Vermeeren.
The company had a turnover of €60m in 2008.