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The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust (TOAST) has joined forces with leisure operators this week (12-18 March) to highlight the problem of obesity in the UK.
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16 Mar 2006
Curves International, the express workout chain for women founded by Gary Heavin in 1995, has revealed expansion plans for the German market following the successful launch of its first club in the country in September 2005.
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14 Mar 2006
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.
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09 Mar 2006
Whitbread’s chief executive Alan Parker has insisted that the group will not be broken up or sold and denied speculation that it may bid for the budget hotel chain Travelodge.
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03 Mar 2006
ADDleisure, the AIM-listed company formed to develop products and services in the health and leisure sector, has revealed plans to open a chain of high street fitness and wellbeing studios.
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02 Mar 2006
Belgian private equity firm GIMV has acquired a 49 per cent stake in the Russian health club chain and fitness consultant Strata Partners, which operates Orange Fitness and CityFitness in Russia.
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27 Feb 2006
Health club chain Esporta has completed a refinancing of its debt facilities, releasing £120m cash in order to fund the rollout of new sites through both acquisition and organic growth.
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13 Feb 2006
US capital Washington’s largest health and fitness chain, the Sport & Health company, has been acquired by a group of local investors led by the chain’s former CEO for US$75m (£42m, 62.6m euro).
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09 Feb 2006
Next Generation, which operates the Harbour Club in Chelsea, has confirmed that it has received several expressions of interest in buying the health club chain from potential bidders.
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09 Feb 2006
The family-owned fitness chain, WOW! Work Out World, is continuing its international expansion with two new sites in Japan and a further three planned to open later this year.
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09 Feb 2006
Spanish health and fitness chain DiR continues its expansion with the opening of a new club near Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
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09 Feb 2006
Sheffield United football Club (SUFC) is raising £10.7m through a share offer in order to acquire a health club and to improve its Bramall Lane ground.
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07 Feb 2006
Health club chain Holmes Place has appointed Martin Robinson as its new chair, following Gerald Corbett’s announcement last November that he intended to step down this month.
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24 Jan 2006
JJB Sports, the retailer and operator of 31 health clubs, has issued a post-Christmas warning, forecasting that profits will come in below expectations at between £32m and £36m.
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13 Jan 2006
Gold’s Gym’s ambitious expansion plans have now taken the chain to Hungary, where it has opened its first club in Budapest.
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10 Jan 2006
Just six months after its merger with Fin Form to create Denmark’s largest health and fitness chain, Fitness dk has joined forces with family-owned chain, Hard Work.
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02 Dec 2005
Health club entrepreneurs David Lloyd and his son Scott are believed to be considering putting their Next Generation Clubs chain up for sale, following the appointment of investment bank UBS to investigate strategic options.
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29 Nov 2005
Kings Hall Leisure Centre and Britannia Leisure Centre in Hackney are the latest facilities to join the London Fitness Network (LFN), bringing the total number of affiliated centres to 64.
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09 Nov 2005
Clapham House chair David Page and chief executive Paul Campbell are believed to be looking at making an approach for UK health club chain Esporta through Clerkenwell Ventures, the AIM listed investment vehicle they floated last October.
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31 Oct 2005
North west-based health and fitness club operator FX Leisure is to begin work on a new £2.5m site in Congleton, Cheshire.
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20 Oct 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
Health and fitness chain Cannons has announced that its chief executive, Harm Tegelaars, is to become non-executive deputy chair of the group, 25 years after he founded the company.
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13 Oct 2005
Entrepreneur Richard Branson is believed to be interested in acquiring the David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) health club chain.
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12 Oct 2005
Clark Hatch, founder and chairman emeritus of fitness club chain Clark Hatch International, has announced that the company plans to seek investors or a public offering in order to fund further expansion.
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11 Oct 2005
In an interview with Health Club Management magazine, Stephen Roma, CEO of American fitness chain Wow! Work Our World, said that pricing is the greatest issue the health club industry has to face.
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11 Oct 2005
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has bought back the 55 per cent interest in Virgin Active that it sold to Bridgepoint Capital in 2002 – for £134.5m.
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06 Oct 2005
Following the sale of health club chain Fitness First to BC Partners for £835m by private equity company Cinven, David Giampaolo is to become a non-executive director of the company.
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05 Oct 2005
Leisure giant Whitbread has replaced Stewart Miller as managing director of it health and fitness arm, David Lloyd Leisure, reportedly in a bid to boost perfomance.
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22 Sep 2005
The Injoy International Sports & Wellnessclubs chain is heading for Italy, with two sites due to open next month.
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13 Sep 2005
LA Fitness chief executive Fred Turok has announced that he intends to lead the fitness industry into a period of consolidation and launch new concepts to attract consumers currently ‘underserved’ by the health club market.
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22 Aug 2005
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