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Private equity firms are battling to take over troubled health club operator Esporta.
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04 Mar 2008
Golf clubs which admit male and female members, but discriminate against one sex, will be outlawed by 2007 the European Union has said.
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05 Jan 2006
Matt Roberts, founder of Evolution personal training in Grosvenor Square, has said PT
studios are likely to reopen in advance of larger gyms and those whose model is based
on
group fitness.
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25 Apr 2020
The government has pledged to invest more than £10m to open school sports and
swimming facilities in England to the public in the evenings and at weekends.
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08 Feb 2021
Tax rises in April will mean that many leisure businesses will see the rateable value of their premises increase by up to 700 per cent.
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06 Jan 2010
Speculation is once again rife of a high-profile IPO for Virgin Active, although
this time the business is said to be preparing to float in South Africa.
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09 Dec 2014
The UK government has given its clearest signal yet it may be about to announce gyms
can reopen early in July.
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17 Jun 2020
Sebastian Coe, the chair of the London 2012 organising committee (LOCOG), has insisted that preparations for the 2012 Olympics are on track.
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17 Nov 2006
The UK is the fourth worst country in the world for cancer caused by obesity in
men, a recent study has discovered.
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03 Dec 2014
ukactive is backing NHS proposals to create 10 “Healthy New Towns” that place physical
activity at the heart of community life.
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22 Aug 2017
Caoimhe Bamber, co-founder of Digme Fitness, has described a recent
Daily Telegraph
article which claimed the chain was on the verge of collapse as 'misleading'.
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11 Feb 2022
The UK government has extended the ban on commercial evictions until 25 March 2022.
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16 Jun 2021
A decision will be made this week on whether bankrupt health club operator Esporta will be broken up and sold in pieces to bidders in an auction run by investment bank Greenhill.
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29 May 2008
Alister Rollins, managing director of Fitronics, walked away with the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award at the Jaeger-LeCoultre Telegraph Business Awards, which were held at the Moorhouse building, London, on 2 November.
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04 Nov 2005
LA Fitness and the owner of Total Fitness, Legal and General Ventures, have reportedly teamed up in order to bid to acquire rival health club chain Esporta from its private equity owners Duke Street Capital.
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30 Oct 2006
The Bannatyne Group has bought Virgin Active Humberston, with members and staff to
transfer over at the end of the month.
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15 Aug 2017
TDR Capital, the owner of the David Lloyd gyms, is gearing up to sell the chain in a £1.3bn
(US$1.6bn, €1.5bn) deal following its acquisition of 16 Virgin Active clubs.
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06 Mar 2017
The number of people in Dundee taking part in swimming has jumped 17.5 per
cent, with the boom being attributed to the city’s £31m Olympia development.
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16 Apr 2014
Gordon Brown has been accused of "breathtaking hypocrisy" after calling for schools to increase access to PE and sport and for greater encouragement of competitive sport in schools.
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26 Oct 2006
North East Lincolnshire Council plans to invest £15.1m on improved leisure provision in the area after a survey revealed that only 45 per cent of the adult community undertake physical activity.
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27 Feb 2009
The entrepreneurial founder of Move Technologies Group talks about creating MoveGB and the tech-based health-focused ventures that have followed
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All primary schools in England could be offered the opportunity to get involved in the Daily Mile
fitness programme, after the initiative secured a £1.5m Sport England grant.
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07 Jan 2019
Virtual fitness class provider Wexer Virtual has further strengthened its European team
following the opening of its new head office in London earlier this year.
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28 Sep 2016
Employers across Europe may be forced to make adjustments to work
environments to accommodate overweight employees, after the European Court
of Justice (ECJ) ruled that obesity can constitute a disability within European
law.
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18 Dec 2014
Pure Gym founder and executive chair Peter Roberts has called on the government to
abolish VAT on gym memberships to encourage more people to get active and lighten the
load on the NHS.
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12 Oct 2015
Employees using in-house corporate gyms may be about to lose a benefit allowing them to
take up membership without paying income tax.
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21 Nov 2016
Fitness entrepreneur Matt Roberts has partnered with juice shop Daily Dose to open a co-
branded café specialising in high-protein food and drinks at his Mayfair studio.
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20 Dec 2017
Scotland plans to roll-out 'The Daily Mile' scheme to all educational facilities and workplaces in a bid
to tackle obesity in the country.
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27 Oct 2017
Short-term incentives for exercise, such as using daily reminders, rewards or games, can lead
to sustained increases in activity according to new research.
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24 Apr 2024
Live streaming of classes is a hot
trend that fitness operators should be
embracing, Tom Walker finds out why
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Barry’s – known for its HIIT workouts combining treadmills and weights – is thought to ...
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Consultancy and change architects, Miova, have welcomed industry veteran Mark Tweedie on board. Tweedie had ...
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US private equity fund, Providence Equity Partners, is acquiring a majority stake in VivaGym from ...
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The Bannatyne Group says it has officially bounced back from the pandemic, with both turnover ...
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There is speculation that Basic Fit will sell the five Spanish Holmes Place clubs it ...
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While British adults are the most active they’ve been in a decade, health inequalities remain ...
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Nuffield Health has worked with ServiceSport UK for more than ten
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Epassi, a provider of workplace wellness benefits, is creating a fitter
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Francesca Cooper-Boden says
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D2F had updated its brand styling to keep pace with
business growth. MD, John Lofting and operations
director, Matt Aynsley, explain the rationale
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Footballer and entrepreneur“Taking care of your physical and mental health is essential for a fulfilling life”
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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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Now mental health is the number one reason for people to join a
health club, do fitness professionals need a grounding in counselling
to offer a more holistic service? Kath Hudson asks the experts
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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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Imposter syndrome about a promotion taught the
CEO of SATS that behaving authentically is the most
important part of leadership. He talks to Kath Hudson
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