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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
The Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) and the Fitness Industry Association (FIA) are applying for a grant from the National Sports Foundation to expand the inclusive fitness concept to the private sector.
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16 Jun 2006
Whitbread’s David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) has agreed a deal with the Saga Group, with the aim of boosting membership sales to the over 50s market by at least 50 per cent.
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12 Jun 2006
Fitness franchise company Curves International has launched its first club in Norway and announced plans to open 110 facilities in the country over the next five years.
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08 Jun 2006
Belgian fitness chain Sportopolis is in merger talks with HealthCity – the largest fitness chain in the Netherlands – and private equity investor Waterland, one of HealthCity’s shareholders.
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08 Jun 2006
The international sports association IHRSA, in cooperation with Deloitte and sponsored by Technogym, has published its second, annual study of the European fitness market.
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31 May 2006
Alfa Capital Partners and Moscow-based World Class fitness chain are to form a strategic partnership to further develop the chain and expand into Russia’s mid-market segment.
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18 May 2006
Listed company Parken Sport & Entertainment (PSE) has bought Danish chain fitness dk for DKK 300m (£28m).
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18 May 2006
Burton Hotel in Kington, Herefordshire, opened a £1m health and fitness club called Cloud Nine this month under the management of Fitness Express.
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18 May 2006
Parkwood Leisure has begun operation in the private health and fitness sector, following the acquisition of two Sportz Academy clubs in Hertfordshire.
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11 May 2006
Former Physique MD Mark Turner has been appointed MD of CV and resistance equipment provider SportsArt Fitness UK, with immediate effect.
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04 May 2006
Multitrax Group has announced plans to expand into the health club market, with the launch of two London clubs planned for January 2007.
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20 Apr 2006
Énergie Fitness clubs has launched a new ladies-only franchise in the UK – Énergie Fitness for Women.
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13 Apr 2006
A new study into the nation’s attitudes towards health and fitness has shown that the greatest barrier preventing people from exercising was not a lack of convenient facilities, but a lack of time.
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29 Mar 2006
The Academy Leisure Group has opened its latest health and fitness club in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.
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27 Mar 2006
Fitness was one of the bright spots in the American sports equipment market according to the review by the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (SGMA).
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14 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 companies in South Korea are expanding their efforts in an attempt to reduce the country’s increasing obesity rates.
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14 Mar 2006
The five-a-side football centre operator, Goals Soccer Centres has noted an increase in pre-tax profits of 355 per cent for the year ended 2005 – to £2.8m from £0.6m at the end of 2004.
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06 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
LA Fitness has announced that it is set to buy Crown Sports, the owner of 21 Dragons health clubs, for £38.5m.
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20 Feb 2006
Aura Leisure group has claimed two awards at the 2006 O2 Ability awards held at Dublin Castle.
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20 Feb 2006
A new collaboration betwen the national government agencies responsible for sport, arts, heritage, the built environment and museums and libraries in the UK has been launched to deliver creative, cultural and sporting opportunities.
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14 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
Moscow-based Strata Partners has launched two new clubs in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
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10 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
Tees Active has secured funding from the Big Lottery Fund to finance a new scheme called Active Start, designed to increase children’s participation in physical activity in the Stockton-on-Tees area.
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09 Jan 2006
In the first week of November, Edinburgh Leisure targeted its casual user market with a 1p joining fee promotion and sold more than 600 swim and gym memberships.
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07 Dec 2005
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
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