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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
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.
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16 Jul 2015
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.
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30 Aug 2013
Oxygen Consulting is about to launch its first UK Padel Report, which
investigates this fast-growing sport.
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09 Apr 2024
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.
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21 Jan 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.
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28 Sep 2015
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
Traditional health clubs offering a broad selection of activities at a mid-range price are at
serious risk of having their business ‘salami-sliced’ away by specialised competitors.
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18 Oct 2014
The Gym Group is “positively exploring” foreign markets and engaging in
discussions with a number of parties as it bids to banish the ghost of its failed
merger with Pure Gym by way of an overseas expansion.
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18 Aug 2014
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
A new report due out in December will bid to uncover what is driving the current
investment boom in boutique fitness studios.
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08 Oct 2014
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
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
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.
news •
26 Jan 2015
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
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
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.
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24 Jul 2014
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
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
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
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
Top-level sports people can live more than five years longer than the rest of the population.
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12 May 2023
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
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.
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15 Apr 2014
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.
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26 Oct 2015
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.
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14 Jan 2014
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.
news •
27 May 2015
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