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21 May 2024
Speaking to HCM for its 2024-2025 Handbook, which will be out next month, PureGym managing
16 Mar 2024
Will Orr, CEO of The Gym Group, has revealed the company’s full-year results for 2023,
16 Mar 2024
Brand specialist, Kantar, has ranked a key group of health and fitness operators by consumer
11 Mar 2024
New legislation will change the way health clubs in the UK manage their membership process,
10 Oct 2023
Pure Gym has hosted a fitness competition dedicated solely to people aged over 50 years
28 Sep 2023
PureGym’s holding company, Pinnacle Bidco, has completed the £805m refinancing which was announced on Tuesday
The passion for fitness and bodybuilding reached new heights at the Panatta stands during RiminiWellness
26 Sep 2023
Pure Gym’s holding company, Pinnacle Bidco plc, has set out to raise £805m through issuing
23 Jun 2023
Pure Gym has launched a fitness championships dedicated to the over-50s with a strong emphasis
30 May 2023
Urban Gym Group is adding to its network of fitness clubs with the opening of
28 Feb 2023
Residents of Wolverhampton, UK can earn gym discounts and food vouchers for exercising and eating
21 Feb 2023
Another Round, the startup behind the AI-driven personal training app of the same name, has
19 Jan 2023
Pure Gym Arabia, the franchise partner of Pure Gym Group in the Middle East, has
CoverMe Fitness, the studio management app for the fitness industry, has launched in Australia, with
06 Jan 2023
Jason Worthy has been announced as the new CEO of Anytime Fitness UK. He succeeds
22 Dec 2022
Rebecca Passmore was promoted to MD of Pure Gym in September 2020 – the same
24 Oct 2022
Pure Gym says it will open over 20 gyms across the UAE, with the first
27 Sep 2022
Gymfinity Kids, the club and nursery operator launched by Pure Gym founder, Peter Roberts, has
15 Sep 2022
With an additional bank holiday announced in the UK out of respect for Queen Elizabeth
12 Sep 2022
As the UK’s new prime minister Liz Truss prepares an energy bailout, UK Active has
RLSS UK, STA and Swim England are joining forces to bring Aquatics to Elevate 2024
05 Sep 2022
Digital fitness provider Funxtion has raised €5.8m (£5m, US$5.7) from Lexar Partners and company shareholders.
26 Aug 2022
Pure Gym saw its Q2 revenues jump to £119m, a 9 per cent increase on
17 Aug 2022
Pure Gym has opened its latest location in the Middle East as part of a
In a departure from the traditional fitness brands, Pure Gym put its trust in corporate
11 Aug 2022
Peter Roberts, former CEO and founder of Pure Gym, has invested in Another Round, a
21 Apr 2022
Pure Gym has revealed it's planning to double the number of clubs in its portfolio,
16 Mar 2022
Pure Gym has launched in the US under the brand Pure Fitness, with the first
09 Mar 2022
Pure Gym will take its US expansion 'step by step' – but views the market
10 Feb 2022
Customer demand for health clubs and gyms in the UK was ‘back to normal' during
15 Dec 2021
Pure Gym has dropped plans for an IPO which it revealed in August, opting instead
06 Dec 2021
Denmark has been identified as the cheapest country in the world to live a healthy
22 Nov 2021
The PureGym app has been named the Health and Fitness App of the Year at
22 Mar 2021
The UK parliament will today (22 March) debate the merits of a Work Out to
28 Dec 2020
Polish medical insurance outfit, Medicover, has rescued Polish operator, Fitness World, out of administration. The
17 Nov 2020
Humphrey Cobbold, CEO of PureGym, has confirmed to HCM that the company's operations in Poland
09 Nov 2020
Nick Whitcombe, the independent gym owner who became a fitness industry campaigner by refusing to
21 Sep 2020
More than 100 sport and physical activity bodies have sent a letter to UK Prime
11 Sep 2020
PureGym has secured a £100m cash injection from shareholders to help deal with both the
02 Sep 2020
Announcing the company's half-year results today (2 September), Richard Darwin, CEO of The Gym Group
27 Aug 2020
Pure Gym's overseas clubs returned to pre-COVID-19 profit levels in the first month of trading
01 Jul 2020
Industry body ukactive has today (1 July) hosted a delegation of government and public health
25 Jun 2020
Tanni Grey-Thompson, Chair of ukactive, Humphrey Cobbold, CEO of Pure Gym and ukactive board member
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“Following the gym upgrade, Sport Ireland Fitness membership has hit capacity and the team is putting a wait-list in place”
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Life Fitness has reimagined cardio with the launch of its Symbio line which has been
designed with advanced biomechanics and offers deep levels of customisation
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Sustainability in the fitness industry is coming on in leaps and bounds as more
operators refurbish their gym equipment to save money and the planet
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We all know we need to stand more. Now an exciting new partnership between Physical and Teca Fitness expands this thinking into UK gyms and beyond
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At the heart of the Sydney Swans new headquarters in Australia is an elite
player-focused training facility by strength equipment specialist BLK BOX
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Coaching workshops from Keith Smith and
Adam Daniel have been designed to empower
your team and transform your service
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GymNation is pioneering the future of
fitness with software specialist Perfect
Gym providing a scalable tech platform
to power and sustain its growth
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D2F had updated its brand styling to keep pace with
business growth. MD, John Lofting and operations
director, Matt Aynsley, explain the rationale
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University of Sheffield Sport has opened the doors of its flagship
Goodwin Sports Centre following a major refurbishment
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“We’re aiming to reach 50-70 gyms by mid-2027, some in supermarkets”
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Appointed president of Xponential Fitness when she was only 34, Sarah Luna attributes her career success to the grit, determination and stamina she honed as a dancer by day and Pilates teacher by night.
She talks to Kath Hudson about how owning her choices has given her the resilience to take on one of the top jobs in the US fitness industry, while also raising a family
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New research from UCLA Health looked at the impact of Kundalini yoga on memory and found a significant impact, finds Megan Whitby
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Mariah Rooney
Founder, Trauma Informed Weight Lifting“When people experience early life trauma it impacts their bodies and nervous systems. I became curious about how lifting weights could help them have the experience of strength”
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It’s time to start the conversation
about pelvic health. It’s not
just menopausal women who
have challenges: young women
and men can also experience
issues they’re too embarrassed
to discuss or seek help for,
as Kath Hudson reports
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AI has the potential to support people in making
healthy lifestyle changes if its algorithms can be
updated to understand the different stages of
motivation, as Jodi Heckel reports
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When retailer, the €11 billion-a-year Colruyt Group, decided to get into the health club market, the plan was to fully integrate its entire business using customer insight data. The results are remarkable
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Mark Tweedie
Associate, Miova“I’d love to see a national wellness service working hand in glove with NHS primary care”
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Steph Eaves looks at how health
assessment devices are evolving
to keep up with industry trends
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The passion for fitness and bodybuilding reached new heights at the Panatta stands during
RiminiWellness (30 May – 2 June 20204) – the largest fitness event in Italy – which this year
exceeded the 100,000 visitor mark.
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