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The latest research from HAFOS (the Health and Fitness Omnibus Survey) – carried out by Leisure-net Solutions and supported by SIBEC – was revealed at the annual SIBEC UK forum, held at The De Vere Belfry in Warwickshire.
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23 Jun 2006
This year’s Fitness Industry Association (FIA) Commit to Get Fit campaign is set to kick off on 1 July, backed by famous faces Amanda Lamb, David Seaman and Mark Richardson.
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14 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
The Fitness Industry Association (FIA) has joined forces with the Performing Right Society (PRS) – a non-profit making organisation which collects and distributes music royalties on behalf of its members – to make sure that every fitness operation in the UK has a current PRS licence.
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06 Jun 2006
Holmes Place Health Clubs is expanding in Spain and Portugal with the launch of a new franchising concept.
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18 May 2006
ARK Leisure Management opened its flagship club, Thirtysevendegrees, at the More London development near Tower Bridge on 10 May.
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18 May 2006
Retention levels in UK health clubs have increased by 0.4 per cent during the 12 months to March 2006, yet with total operating costs on the rise, profit margins have fallen by 4.1 per cent.
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11 May 2006
Academy Leisure Group is selling its UK operational assets in a disposal package that features the company’s three North Yorkshire-based health clubs.
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04 May 2006
3d Leisure has announced a new contract with Swallow Hotels to manage the health clubs within its portfolio.
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27 Apr 2006
US-based Hilton Hotels Corporation (HHC) is in talks to sell the LivingWell health club chain, which it acquired in February as part of its £3.3bn (US$5.7bn, 4.7bn euro) takeover of Hilton International.
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03 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
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
Following its acquisition of Crown Sports last month, LA Fitness has sold 15 of the group’s Dragon’s health clubs to Robert Tchenguiz’s R20 investment vehicle in a £50m sale and leaseback deal.
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02 Mar 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
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
US capital Washington’s largest health and fitness chain, the Sport & Health company, has been acquired by a group of local investors led by the chain’s former CEO for US$75m (£42m, 62.6m euro).
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09 Feb 2006
Sheffield United football Club (SUFC) is raising £10.7m through a share offer in order to acquire a health club and to improve its Bramall Lane ground.
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07 Feb 2006
Stuart Broster has been appointed chief operating officer at LA Fitness.
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24 Jan 2006
Fitness First is believed to be in exclusive talks to buy smaller operator Fitness Exchange for between £10m and £15m, according to The Times.
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18 Jan 2006
JJB Sports, the retailer and operator of 31 health clubs, has issued a post-Christmas warning, forecasting that profits will come in below expectations at between £32m and £36m.
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13 Jan 2006
Fitness New Zealand (Fitness NZ), the trade body for health clubs in New Zealand, is working with the UK’s Dr Melvyn Hillsdon to undertake the country’s first national retention and attrition audit.
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10 Jan 2006
Big and Fit is a new lifestyle initiative which aims to get more people who are classified as overweight or obese – 24 million in the UK – exercising.
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14 Nov 2005
Keith Burnet has been appointed managing director of the Hilton group's health club division LivingWell.
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07 Nov 2005
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
Fitness specialist Lifetime Training is set to launch two new training venues in Manchester and the Midlands.
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01 Nov 2005
Clapham House chair David Page and chief executive Paul Campbell are believed to be looking at making an approach for UK health club chain Esporta through Clerkenwell Ventures, the AIM listed investment vehicle they floated last October.
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31 Oct 2005
Health club operator Fitness First has announced the acquisition of the Australia-based Space Health Clubs group.
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14 Oct 2005
Health club members in the US who take exercise to treat specific health conditions are now eligible for tax deductions.
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11 Oct 2005
Bannatyne Fitness is helping to accommodate for the busy lifestyles of its members by offering a reciprocal membership between two health clubs.
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11 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
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