The footballing legend is launching a wellness app to deliver wellbeing and health to his fans and followers

Bhout is in pre-sales for its AI-driven boxing bag, which it calls a 'boxing bag with a brain'.

Rob Barker has stepped down from his roles at Precor and Peloton with immediate effect.

Boutique franchise operator Personal20 has opened a new studio in the Portuguese capital Lisbon.

The IHRSA European Congress 2018 takes place next month in Lisbon, Portugal. IHRSA explains what delegates can expect at the event

The Fitness Hut CEO talks about disrupting the Portuguese fitness market and giving members more for less

South African investment group Brait, which owns a controlling stake in Virgin Active, has scrapped plans to transfer its registered offices from Malta to the UK, and list in London, due to Brexit.

GO fit – part of the Ingesport group, which runs full service health and fitness clubs in Spain and Portugal – has unveiled aggressive expansion plans for both Spain and Portugal.

Fitness Hut opened three clubs in Portugal this April: in Loures, 18k north of central Lisbon; Linda-A-Velha, 8k west of central Lisbon and seaside town south of Lisbon, Setubal.

Low-cost operator Fitness Hut has announced it completed a transaction with Portuguese investment fund Oxy Capital on 2 July, providing the chain with access to €12m (US$16.2m, £9.4m) of growth funding.

Fitness Hut co-founder and CEO Nick Coutts was honoured with the 2013 IHRSA European Club Leadership Award at the association’s 13th Annual European Congress in Madrid.

VAT paid by health club operators across Spain is to increase from the current rate of 8 per cent to 21 per cent later this year. There is concern among stakeholders in the Spanish fitness industry that the VAT rate rise will hit the already under-pressure membership numbers at health clubs.

Budget gym operator Fitness Hut, founded by industry veteran Nick Coutts, recently opened its first site in Lisbon.

Entrepreneur and former CEO of Holmes Place Iberia, Nick Coutts, is to launch his new budget club venture in Portugal this month.

Nick Coutts, a former chief executive officer of health club chain Holmes Place Iberia, is to launch a new budget health club venture called Fitness Hut.

Fitness equipment and training company SHOKK is working with health club chain Holmes Place Iberia in Portugal to deliver the company's Fit Families project.

Vivafit, the Portuguese chain of women’s express workout centres, opened six new clubs in the last two months of 2008 to consolidate its position as private fitness sector leader.

Holmes Place Health Clubs is expanding in Spain and Portugal with the launch of a new franchising concept.

Holmes Place is set to open its first club in Cologne at the beginning of this month.