Oxygen Consulting is about to launch its first UK Padel Report, which investigates this fast-growing sport.

While critical for business success, the challenges of ESG can be overwhelming. Operators tell us how they’re tackling it

Ray Algar has researched the impact of exercise on longevity and explains how the findings can help the industry, while GLL is heading for net zero carbon

Jan Spaticchia, founder and chair of énergie Fitness has died aged 51 following a short illness. Spaticchia was also chair of the recently launched Empowered Brands group, and vice- chair of BMF.

Globally, gyms on average, seen nearly 70 per cent of their pre-lockdown members return to their facilities since re-opening their doors.

Ray Algar, managing director of business insight specialist Oxygen Consulting, has called for the leisure sector to get better at understanding the data they hold and to utilise the social value they create.

Leisure Industry Week relaunches this month having been acquired by BodyPower. We look ahead to what’s on offer this year

Fitness industry analyst Ray Algar will deliver a keynote session at Leisure Industry Week (LIW) 2015, exploring what the future holds for the ‘squeezed middle’ of the gym market.

Major health club brands such as LA Fitness, Fitness First, Anytime Fitness and Sports Direct will seriously innovate their consumer offering as they battle to assert themselves in a changing market, predicts a new report.

After what has been generally viewed as a successful 2014 for the physical activity sector, the industry must now take further steps to raise its game and evolve in 2015, according to ukactive CEO David Stalker.

Health Club Management recently revealed how online gym pass provider PayasUgym will soon begin testing Bitcoin, potentially paving the way for the cryptocurrency to become an accepted form of payment across more than 2,000 UK gyms in the PayasUgym network.

A new report due out in December will bid to uncover what is driving the current investment boom in boutique fitness studios.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decision to refer the proposed merger of The Gym Group and Pure Gym to an in-depth investigation – a move which prompted the low cost operators to scrap the deal – was based on a “narrow definition of the market” according to health and fitness industry analyst Ray Algar.

Finalists for the new-look 2014 Flame Awards were announced yesterday afternoon by ukactive CEO David Stalker during a live webinar.

A new report from Oxygen Consulting has said that the physical activity sector must “unleash” its social purpose potential to thrive among the wave of private and budget gyms.

A new report by Ray Algar - 2013 review of the UK Health and Fitness Industry and an outlook for 2014 - predicts lower gym fees for more consumers this year.

A new project has been launched to bring together stories, insight and inspiration from the health and fitness industry encouraging gyms and their members to have a wider reaching social impact.

Can the sector better engage with members by more wholeheartedly embracing CSR? Kate Cracknell reports on the birth of Gymtopia