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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
UK-based health club operator Fitness First plans to open sites in India and Russia as part of an ambitious expansion programme.
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16 Jan 2007
Gymbox – the ‘New York-style’ health club – is to open its second site, on St Martins Lane, London.
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24 Nov 2006
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
Celia Gatward has been appointed national business development manager by énergie Fitness Clubs, with a brief to promote the énergie franchise ethos within the infrastructure of a large network to independent club owners.
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11 Oct 2006
The largest operator of health clubs across Scandinavia, SATS, is believed to be up for sale for around £150m.
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11 Oct 2006
Fitness First, the world’s largest health club operator, has acquired the privately owned UK-based Fitness Exchange chain for an undisclosed sum.
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12 Sep 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 Holmes Place health club brand is to disappear this year, following a merger with Richard Branson’s Virgin Active chain. Details are expected to be announced this week.
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04 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 has acquired the smaller Fitness Exchange chain for £10m, according to a report in the The Sunday Times.
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07 Aug 2006
Fitness First, one of the world’s largest health club chains, has appointed a new group chief financial officer.
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12 Jul 2006
Fitness First, the UK-based fitness chain, has announced its intention to launch the brand in India.
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12 Jul 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
As the fitness industry heads towards a potential partnership with both government and businesses to promote a healthy lifestyle, one of the biggest challenges it faces is identifying, attracting and retaining senior management with the skills and experience to take the industry to the next level.
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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
Fitness First has appointed John Gamble as its new UK managing director.
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09 May 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
Fitness First is believed to be in exclusive talks to buy smaller operator Fitness Exchange for between £10m and £15m, according to The Times.
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18 Jan 2006
The health and fitness industry continues to face tough trading conditions with first quarter results in 2006 crucial to continuing the early signs of recovery in the market.
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10 Jan 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
The Register of Exercise Professionals (REPs) has announced the appointment of John Byers as its first register administrator in Wales.
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14 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
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
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