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Management software company Ez-Systems has signed a deal with Ezypay of Australia to provide a combined fitness management and direct debit solution in both Australia and New Zealand.
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07 Jul 2008
The European Register of Exercise Professionals was officially launched in Hilversum, Netherlands, on 7/8 May at the EHFA North European Fitness Forum.
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15 May 2008
With a Virgin Active launch in Queensland, Australia, scheduled for later this year, the chain is now eyeing up a site in New South Wales.
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09 May 2008
Workout Workshop, one of Australia’s largest fitness manufacturers, has signed an exclusive agreement to distribute the SHOKK brand across Australia.
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18 Oct 2007
Fitness First is to roll its personal training product out across Europe with the help of Escape Fitness.
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18 Oct 2007
Representatives from exercise registers from four different countries agreed the formation of the International Confederation of Registers for Exercise Professionals at the IHRSA Convention in March.
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16 Apr 2007
A formal affiliation agreement between exercise registers operating in Australia and New Zealand with the Register of Exercise Professionals UK will take place at IHRSA in March
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23 Jan 2007
Australia-based women-only health club chain Fernwood is to sell its remaining 18 company-owned health clubs.
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14 Nov 2006
A four-year drive to reduce obesity in the town of Colac in Victoria, Australia, has resulted in 1,800 children weighing less, watching less television, eating more healthily and engaging in more sport.
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11 Oct 2006
Community Leisure Services (CLS) has successfully gained Quest accreditation for two of its sports centres this summer, The White Horse Leisure & Tennis Centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire and Yarborough Leisure Centre in Lincoln.
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07 Sep 2006
The number of overweight people in the world has overtaken the number of malnourished for the first time, with a billion people now considered heavier than advised – almost one in six of the world’s population.
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24 Aug 2006
Fitness First Australia has appointed Darren Chan as national marketing manager to oversee the company’s brand development and manage key marketing initiatives for existing and future Australian club launches.
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07 Jul 2006
Health club operator Fitness First has reportedly acquired LivingWell’s Australian business for between £10m and £12m.
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03 Jul 2006
Delegates from around the world met at the recent IHRSA Convention, held in Las Vegas in the US, to discuss issues of closer international cooperation in recognising certification and registration for exercise professionals.
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18 Apr 2006
US-based Hilton Hotels Corporation (HHC) is in talks to sell the LivingWell health club chain, which it acquired in February as part of its £3.3bn (US$5.7bn, 4.7bn euro) takeover of Hilton International.
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03 Apr 2006
The 18th Commonwealth Games have opened in Melbourne, Australia with a spectacular ceremony at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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15 Mar 2006
Fitness First Australia has entered the country’s capital, Canberra, for the first time, following the acquisition of Deakin Health Spa.
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09 Feb 2006
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has admitted it will only be a matter of time before a complete smoking ban will introduced in England.
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28 Nov 2005
Keith Burnet has been appointed managing director of the Hilton group's health club division LivingWell.
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07 Nov 2005
Health club operator Fitness First has announced the acquisition of the Australia-based Space Health Clubs group.
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14 Oct 2005
Fitness First claims that it is now the largest operator of wholly-owned health and fitness clubs in the world.
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10 Oct 2005
Formal recognition of registers of exercise professionals operating in the UK, Australia and New Zealand has now been agreed, setting a template for the rest of the world to follow.
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16 May 2005
Next Generation Clubs has revealed plans to build a health and fitness club in Dubai in 2006, with the opening planned for 2007.
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19 Apr 2005
Five new directors have been appointed at health club chain Fitness First following the company’s recent management restructure.
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10 Feb 2005
UK-based health club chain, Fitness First – which operates around 400 clubs throughout Europe, Australia and the Far East – has signed a franchise deal to move into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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12 Nov 2004
UK-based health club chain, Fitness First – which operates around 400 clubs throughout Europe, Australia and the Far East – has signed a franchise deal to move into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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12 Nov 2004
Fitness First has opened its flagship health club, Fitness First Platinum, in Sydney, Australia.
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09 Sep 2004
The new managing director of LivingWell health clubs, Patrick Fitzgibbon, has said he believes the health and fitness industry has a vital role to play in helping tackle the UK’s health crisis – but that the industry has to develop its credibility in the government’s eyes first.
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07 Sep 2004
The 23rd IHRSA (International Health Racquets and Sportsclub Association) convention held in Las Vegas recently proved an opportunity for an international meeting of exercise registrars and representatives concerned with setting standards of qualifications for the fitness industry.
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27 Apr 2004
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