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Entrepreneur Richard Branson is believed to be interested in acquiring the David Lloyd Leisure (DLL) health club chain.
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12 Oct 2005
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
With a Virgin Active launch in Queensland, Australia, scheduled for later this year, the chain is now eyeing up a site in New South Wales.
news •
09 May 2008
Virgin Active has upgraded its gym floor proposition to
maximise consumer trends in partnership with Technogym
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British Land has sold five of the 17 Virgin Active health clubs it acquired in
July 2011 for a combined total of £33m.
news •
23 Apr 2012
Virgin Active is investing £100m in its UK sites over the next three years as part
of a campaign to lure post-Christmas gym users to sign up as well as advanced
preparation for an eventual stock market flotation.
news •
10 Jan 2014
Virgin Active has announced the launch of its long-awaited Discovery Lab – a creative
hub made up of health and fitness experts that will drive development of products and
classes.
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08 May 2015
European premium brand Holmes Place has grown its portfolio to more than 90 clubs after
closing a deal to buy two Health City gyms in Germany - hot on the heels of its acquisition
of Virgin Active Iberia.
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26 Oct 2017
Global fitness chain Virgin Active has been sold to South African investment firm Brait.
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16 Apr 2015
The MD of Virgin Active UK tells us about
his plans for making wellness and customer
service key priorities for the fitness brand
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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.
news •
09 Dec 2014
Despite plans to increase the number of premium clubs in its portfolio, Virgin Active has
ruled following the likes of Fitness First into the ‘hyper-exclusive’ end of the health club
market.
news •
27 Jun 2016
Virgin Active has appointed New Yorker Israel Rivera in the newly created role of head of
group exercise – further evidence of the operator's strategic directio.
news •
22 Nov 2017
International health and fitness operator Virgin Active has opened its fifth club in Bangkok, Thailand,
as it continues its growth and presence in South East Asia.
news •
03 Feb 2017
Virgin Active investors are understood to be preparing a £60m+ funding injection into the
fitness
operator, in a bid to secure its future.
news •
11 Feb 2021
Virgin Active has become the latest big-box operator to signal its intention to raise cash
to
buffer it from the impact of the pandemic.
news •
31 Dec 2020
The first head of group exercise at Virgin Active has spoken of his plans to foster a “sense
of belonging and camaraderie” at the operator's UK clubs.
news •
13 Dec 2017
Nuffield Health has acquired the lease for the historic Barbican health club site
in London, which is
currently operated by Virgin Active.
news •
19 Mar 2021
The sale of 16 Virgin Active sites in the UK is the final step of the company's strategy to
focus its operations on metropolitan and commuter hubs in its key markets, the health
and fitness operator has said.
news •
07 Feb 2017
Virgin Active has continued its three-year, £100m
investment in its UK portfolio with the
unveiling of the refurbished Salford Quays site in
Manchester.
news •
28 Oct 2015
A court has given Virgin Active the green light to erase the rent arrears it had accrued during the
pandemic lockdowns.
news •
12 May 2021
A roll-out of fitness classes and improved member experience helped revenue at Virgin
Active rise by 6 per cent to £483million (US$615.5m, €548.6m) in the year to 31
December 2016, results from South African investment group Brait show.
news •
15 Jun 2017
Virtual fitness classes will form a cornerstone of Virgin Active’s member offering
for 2015, as the chain continues its commitment to technology.
news •
14 Jan 2015
Virgin Active has unveiled British explorer and star of Channel 4’s Walking the Nile,
Levison Wood, as the first member of its new Discovery Lab, tasked with inspiring
gymgoers to bring adventure into their everyday lives.
news •
26 May 2015
Health club operator Virgin Active is to invest £25m in improving and refitting the 53 former Esporta venues it acquired in July 2011.
news •
12 Jun 2012
The Bannatyne Group has cast its net across the Irish Sea after buying Virgin Active's
Belfast club.
news •
29 Nov 2017
Body weight training supplier TRX has announced the appointment of Alan Holl – previously head of fitness
at Virgin
Active UK – to operate as senior director of Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.
news •
17 Sep 2014
South African investment group Brait, which owns a controlling stake in Virgin Active, has
scrapped plans to transfer its registered offices from Malta to the UK, and list in London,
due to Brexit.
news •
29 Mar 2017
Virgin Active is rolling out a new fusion ballet class as it bids to bring the spirit of boutique
Los Angeles studios to its UK clubs.
news •
02 Sep 2015
easyGym, the new budget club concept from easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, will officially open for business this summer after signing a deal with Virgin Active.
news •
04 Apr 2011
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