gym chain news

Total Fitness has released results for its most recent financial year (to June 23), which saw a return to pre-COVID membership levels following a year-on-year ... More

Will Orr, CEO of The Gym Group, has revealed the company’s full-year results for 2023, along with an early trading update for 2024 and a ... More

The Gym Group has announced its positive H1 trading trends have continued, with year end revenue up by 18 per cent and members by an ... More

The Gym Group has become the first fitness operator in the world to have its Net-Zero targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. Sustainability ... More

JD Gyms, part of listed company, JD Sports Fashion plc, has sold UAE health club operator, GymNation, to a management buy-out team backed by investors ... More

Members of Crunch Fitness gyms can now enter their club using the Amazon One palm recognition service. The franchised fitness operator has become the first ... More

PureGym added 190,000 new members in the first half of 2023 when compared with H1 2022, taking the total number of members across its clubs ... More

Fitness First has filed a Court Order for restructuring at Companies House in the UK – the document is currently being processed, with details due ... More

Fitness First UK has confirmed to HCM that it's in the process of restructuring, citing rising costs and working from home which has undermined some ... More

The Gym Group saw an upswing in EBITDA, to £38m for 2022, well above the £5.7m it reported for 2021. Membership also grew steadily during ... More

Richard Darwin is to step down from his role as CEO of The Gym Group (TGG). He has spent the past seven years leading the ... More

Private gym chain New York Sports Clubs (NYSC) has acquired boutique brand Fhitting Room, which operates two studios in New York City (Flatiron and Upper ... More

A new report – Optimising personalisation using fitness personas – which defines four key gym-goer types has been released by insight firm Club Intel. The ... More

Ultimate Performance (UP) – the private gym chain and PT business – has opened a new 4,700sq ft club in Canary Wharf’s new Wood Wharf ... More

Barry’s has entered the world of retail, opening a studio in the new Flannels flagship luxury department store in Liverpool, which debuts today (23 June ... More

Pure Gym has revealed it's planning to double the number of clubs in its portfolio, with a target of reaching more than 1,000 clubs by ... More

The health, fitness and activity sector is ramping up its sustainability drive to net-zero with the launch of a new alliance called the Sport Environment ... More

The Gym Group has published its full-year results for 2021 and announced plans to open 28 new sites in 2022, including three gyms acquired this ... More

Polish corporate wellness platform Benefit Systems has taken over a majority stake in club operator Total Fitness. Benefit Systems has acquired a 88 per cent ... More

German fitness operator BestFit Group has acquired regional gym chain EuroFit for an undisclosed sum. The deal will see BestFit add all five EuroFit clubs ... More

Hong Kong-based Bricks Group has revealed plans to launch its health club chain, UTime, in Europe and the UK. UTime currently operates a chain of ... More

The UK parliament will today (22 March) debate the merits of a Work Out to Help Out scheme, designed to offer subsidised access to health ... More

PureGym expects lockdowns to last "until at least 31 March" – and that it will be reopening its Danish and Swiss operations before the UK. ... More

Polish medical insurance outfit, Medicover, has rescued Polish operator, Fitness World, out of administration. The 15-club gym chain was placed into bankruptcy by previous owner, ... More

24 Hour Fitness will emerge from chapter 11 bankruptcy this week after the gym chain secured backing for its restructuring plan. The US Bankruptcy Court ... More