Fitness World has gone ahead with a move into a third market through the acquisition of Basefit.ch, the budget fitness club operator that has been growing steadily around Switzerland. By far the market leader in the saturated Danish market,...
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Feel Sport, a group of 45 French fitness clubs, has agreed a partnership with Keep Cool, that will enlarge the French operator and franchising group to over 250 gyms with 350,000 members. As part of the deal, three owners of Feel Sport have...
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The growing uptake of paid-for options at The Gym Group has pushed up its average sales per member in the first half of this year, and the British budget gym operator has started implementing more technology-driven upgrades. The Gym Group’s...
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Olav Johan Thorstad, chief executive at the Sats Group, has decided to leave the leading Nordic operator after its owners started preparing for a potential initial public offering (IPO) in the second half of next year. The group’s board...
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Altafit has turned into a leading Spanish fitness club operator with financial resources for openings as well as acquisitions, after it was taken over by MCH Private Equity along with iFitness. Altafit suggested earlier this year that it was in...
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Leejam Sports Company, the largest fitness club operator in the Middle East, is preparing an initial public offering (IPO) to sell 30% of its existing shares on the Saudi Stock Exchange in early August. Leejam operated 112 fitness clubs under the...
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L'Appart Fitness more than doubled in size to 120 clubs last week with its acquisition of Nextalis, a fitness club operator and franchisor that once ranked among the largest in France with the Amazonia brand. In the works for several months, this...
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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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Group, the former Health & Fitness Nordic, is building up its Scandinavian business with the projected acquisition of FitnessDK, the second-largest fitness club operator in Denmark. The group of 41 fitness clubs divested by Parken Sport &...
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Stamina Trening, Norway’s second-largest fitness club operator, is to integrate more health-related services after its agreed takeover by Norsk Treninghelse. The two largest shareholders in the buying entity are the physician Arne Instebø and...
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