Boutique boxing gym brand BXR London will open its second full-service club in London next month.

Bannatyne Group has named Karen Wilkinson to the board of Bannatyne Fitness.

Britain's Strongest Disabled Man has opened the revamped Bannatyne Health Club and Spa in Milton Keynes after it underwent a £500,000 ($661,700, €559,200) facelift, with technology at the forefront.

The Bannatyne Group increased its pre-tax profit by 51 per cent to £11.6million (US$14.6m, €13.4m), according to its annual results posted to Companies House for the year ending December 31 2016, up from £7.7m (US$9.7m, €8.9m) in 2015.

A beauty therapist has been awarded £18,000 for unfair dismissal and sex discrimination after she lost her job at Bannatyne Fitness because she could not work weekends.

Bannatyne Group has completed another health club revamp as part of its strategy to upgrade its entire UK-based fitness portfolio.

The Bannatyne Group has continued its top-team reshuffle with the appointment of Scott Niven as group fitness manager.

The former finance director of the Bannatyne Group, Christopher Watson, has been jailed after admitting to defrauding the company out of nearly £8m over a six-year period.

TV Dragon and leisure entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne has said he feels ‘betrayed’ over revelations of fraud and money laundering by former staff at The Bannatyne Group.

Former Bannatyne Group finance director Christopher Watson has been charged with fraud and money-laundering offences totalling almost £8m.

It’s all change at The Bannatyne Group, where just days after Health Club Management revealed Justin Musgrove to be the new MD, Ken Campling has been appointed finance director of the Group’s gym arm – Bannatyne Fitness.

Bannatyne’s Fitness has invested £850,000 into four of its north east Health Clubs as part of a major upgrade to workout equipment.

The Bannatyne Group has today announced a £92m deal with M&G Investments for the sale and leaseback of the ground leases for 39 Bannatyne’s Health Clubs.

Health and fitness club operators LA Fitness and Dave Whelan Sports (DWS) and gym management company Harlands Group have agreed to give consumers better cancellation rights and make their contract terms more transparent after an OFT investigation.

Three health club operators have agreed to change their contract terms following an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which deemed some of the practices used by the gym groups as 'unfair'.

Bannatyne Fitness has purchased the two health clubs operated by GL-14 in Manchester and Fairfield, Hertfordshire.

Bannatyne Fitness is boosting its own performance with an innovative satellite vehicle tracking service from Masternaut Three X.

Bannatyne Fitness has acquired the LivingWell Premier health club chain for around £90m, resulting in the value of the independently-owned company rising to more than £200m.

Health and fitness franchise company Energie Fitness has made a bid – believed to be in the region of £100-£120m – for health club chain Bannatyne Fitness.

Bannatyne Fitness is helping to accommodate for the busy lifestyles of its members by offering a reciprocal membership between two health clubs.

Bannatyne Fitness is on course to reach its target of 40 clubs nationwide within the next 18 months with the opening this month of its 36th site, in Hastings.

Bannatyne Fitness has signed a multi-million pound deal with international equipment supplier, Technogym.

Health and fitness club operator Bannatyne Fitness is to open a £700,000 bar-restaurant concept called Bar Bannatyne at The Gate leisure destination in Newcastle.

Bannatyne Fitness is to open another four sites after securing £73m in funding from the Allied Irish Bank and The Royal Bank of Scotland.

Bannatyne Fitness is to introduce the Young @ Heart programme for mature members at all its health clubs from July.

As part of a continuing restructuring and debt reduction programme, health and fitness group, Topnotch, has sold its Tower 42, Old Broad Street, City of London club for £1.725m to Bannatyne Fitness.