The underlying trend in the European fitness industry remained unchanged last year, with smart cost clubs driving a rise in participation and raising the sector’s revenues to €28.2 billion, up 3.1% in constant currencies. The numbers are...
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Les Mills is rejigging its European organisation with the appointment of a four-strong European team and four country managers, in order to provide more localised support to its club partners and instructors. Martin Franklin, chief operating...
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ClassPass is doubling down on the expansion of its corporate business in Europe, after it raised $285 million in a transaction valuing the company at more than $1 billion. The funds mostly came from L Catterton and Apax Digital Fund, taking the...
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Britain has moved ahead of Germany as Europe’s largest fitness club market, based on estimated growth of 4.2% to £5.1 billion for the year until the end of March. The State of the UK Fitness Industry Report published by Leisure DB found that...
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The Polish office of competition and consumer protection (UOKiK) says it has launched an investigation involving 16 fitness club operators and other stakeholders, to study if they undermined fair competition through collusion. “We collected...
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The trend toward larger gyms with more members and lower prices continued to dominate the European fitness club market last year, amid a frenzy of mergers and acquisitions. The European market generated sales of €26.6 billion in 2017, up by...
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Basic-Fit, the Dutch-based fitness club operator, has flatly denied allegations that it may be taking unfair advantage of its strong position in the Belgian market, after a Belgian minister stated that the Belgian competition authority (BMA) was...
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The United Kingdom has reinforced its lead as the largest European fitness market with more than 9 million members and a market value that increased by 3.2% to about £4.4 billion (€5.7 billion) for the full year until the end of March, according...
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German fitness clubs raised their turnover by 2.7% to €4.83 billion last year, driven by the expansion of gym chains and smaller clubs, according to the annual survey published by the German Employers’ Organisation for Fitness and Health Clubs...
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Pure Gym, the leading British gym chain, is studying a change of ownership, which could lead to an initial public offering (IPO) with a potential target valuation of more than £500 million. The company is said to have appointed Rothschild to...
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