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Oxygen Consulting is about to launch its first UK Padel Report, which
investigates this fast-growing sport.
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09 Apr 2024
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is looking for recruits ahead of undertaking its largest-
ever research programme.
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06 Mar 2024
While critical for business success, the challenges of ESG can be overwhelming. Operators tell us how they’re tackling it
HCM issue 10 2023
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
HCM issue 5 2023
Top-level sports people can live more than five years longer than the rest of the population.
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12 May 2023
Customer demand for health clubs and gyms in the UK was ‘back to normal' during January
2022, according to proprietary search data from fitness marketplace Hussle.
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10 Feb 2022
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.
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11 May 2021
The UK government has been forced to remove a controversial radio advert which claimed people
who go out running or walking are "highly likely to have COVID-19".
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28 Jan 2021
Fitness industry analyst Ray Algar has taken up a non-executive strategic advisory role at fitness
equipment start-up Pendex.
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14 Aug 2018
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.
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10 May 2018
Latin America’s health club industry is robust, according
to IHRSA’s Latin American Report. Kristen Walsh provides
valuable data on the region’s flourishing market conditions
HCM Handbook 2018
A new report from IHRSA gives
valuable data on the Latin American
fitness market, showing a robust
industry made up of 65,000 clubs
HCM issue 6 2017
Premium health and fitness operator Equinox has launched a challenging new year fitness
campaign to revive the ailing concept of consumer loyalty to their gym.
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06 Jan 2016
The organiser of the London Marathon is to fund the expansion of running community
GoodGym across three new locations in London to help spread physical activity and social
good.
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05 Jan 2016
Mid-market gyms are in need of a radical overhaul of their traditional models if they are to
avoid being squeezed into submission by all sides of the market.
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11 Dec 2015
Global fitness giant Les Mills is aiming to help conventional health clubs counter the threat
to their business posed by boutique studios – through harnessing the power of cycling.
news •
26 Oct 2015
Gym managers should treat their role like that of a theatre manager and focus on getting
the public through the door by promoting and selling an unmissable experience.
news •
28 Sep 2015
Bodypower, the new owner of Leisure Industry Week (LIW), has pledged to unite
‘disparate sectors’ under the leisure umbrella as it prepares to launch the event into a new
era.
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22 Sep 2015
Leisure Industry Week relaunches this month having been acquired by BodyPower. We look ahead to what’s on offer this year
HCM issue 9 2015
The Gym Group’s chief operating officer Jim Graham has poured cold water on press reports of an
imminent £300m listing on the London stock market, insisting that no decision has been taken by the
company’s board.
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03 Aug 2015
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.
news •
16 Jul 2015
Boutique fitness studios pose a significant threat to traditional gyms, which have taken
their eye off the needs of consumers, warns respected fitness industry analyst Ray Algar
in a new report.
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27 May 2015
Reinvention, repositioning, a return to growth? Kate Cracknell asks our experts what’s next for the mid-market after several tough years
HCM issue 4 2015
Moving tributes have been paid to Lifestyle Fitness chair and founder Baron Carl
Gripenstedt, who has died suddenly one month shy of his 60th birthday.
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26 Jan 2015
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.
news •
21 Jan 2015
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.
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14 Jan 2015
Where does the UK health and fitness sector currently sit in its product lifecycle, and what comes next? Kate Cracknell asks the experts for their thoughts
HCM issue 1 2015
Health clubs and leisure centres should embrace the commercial opportunity derived from being ‘socially useful’, says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 11 2014
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.
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28 Oct 2014
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director, Matt Aynsley, explain the rationale
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The partnership between PureGym and Belfast-based
supplier BLK BOX is transforming the gym floor
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Members are telling us they need support with their mental and spiritual health and the industry is starting to see this need. Now’s the time to fast-track our response
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“We already have an incredible organisation, but we’re humble enough to recognise there are still areas for continued improvement”
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New research has found BMI to be a highly inaccurate measure of childhood obesity, leading current thinking and policy based on it into question
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Basic-Fit – which has been scaling rapidly across Europe –
is considering franchising to ramp up growth further afield
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