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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
Whitbread has today revealed it has cut 250 jobs from its head office in Luton.
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25 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
Bally Total Fitness has entered into an agreement to sell its Crunch Fitness division for US$45m (£25m) in cash to industry veteran Marc Tasche in partnership with the private equity group of Angelo, Gordon & Co.
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23 Sep 2005
A fully-inclusive gym has opened in Essex and is already training future Paralympic hopefuls.
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12 Sep 2005
A SpoRTA group encompassing four trusts from London, Essex and Kent has commenced an initiative with energy market consultancy John Hall Associates (JHA), to manage their exposure to rising energy prices.
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06 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
David Lloyd, chair of the Next Generation health and fitness chain, has taken up the position of non-executive chair of indoor soft play centre Topsy Turvey World.
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27 Jul 2005
A health expert has called for a ‘Jamie Oliver of the gym’ to tackle the problem of childhood obesity.
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25 Jul 2005
Contours Express Ladies Fitness and Weight Loss Studios has recruited two franchisees to open facilities by the end of the year.
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25 Jul 2005
Holmes Place has reported an increase in new members following an extensive rebranding exercise.
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19 Jul 2005
Health club operator Esporta has sold 13 non-core clubs to Virgin Active as part of its ongoing strategy to focus on the premium sector in the UK.
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14 Jul 2005
Urban Rebounding, a studio-based exercise programme using a mini-trampoline, is being piloted at Esporta fitness clubs following its success in the US.
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16 Jun 2005
Freedom Leisure, the community leisure trust operating in Sussex, has announced membership growth of 10.3 per cent across its six sites for the 2004-5 financial year.
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07 Jun 2005
Irish health and leisure company Jackie Skelly Fitness (JSF) has announced a 10m euro (£6.8m) expansion plan, which will add three new clubs to the Dublin area by September 2006.
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31 May 2005
Edinburgh Leisure has teamed up with Scottish Swimming to offer recreational swimmers a more structured workout in the pool.
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26 May 2005
More than 60 health and fitness operators and suppliers from throughout Europe attended the SIBECEU05 event in Cyprus in April.
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20 May 2005
Deloitte has issued its latest analysis of results for the German health and fitness market, showing membership growth of the 15 selected operators has fallen to 3 per cent in the first quarter of 2005, compared to 6 per cent for the same period last year.
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20 May 2005
Up to 2,000 women-only fitness and weight-loss centres are expected to open in Japan over the next five years.
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15 Apr 2005
The founder of the US-based Cuts for Men fitness club franchise,b John Gennaro, is planning to unveil Cuts for Women – taking on ladies-only operators including Curves, Contours Express and Ladies Workout Express.
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05 Apr 2005
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