Sports Direct news

Frasers Group, owner of Everlast Gyms, has acquired the assets of WIT Fitness from administrators RG Insolvency, adding the brand to its portfolio. A health ... More

Everlast Gyms today (16 November) opened a new flagship property at the Metro Centre in Gateshead UK as part of a strategy to globalise the ... More

Charitable leisure trust, Horizon Leisure, has acquired a former Sports Direct gym in Guildford and transformed it into a health, fitness and wellbeing facility. The ... 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

High performance sport organisation, the Irish Institute of Sport, will be on the hunt for a new sports director when Gary Keegan steps down in ... More

Cox Architecture will create a 3,000 capacity velodrome in Jakarta for the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. According to reports in Australia, where the studio ... More

DW Sports Fitness director Scott Best has moved into the booming boutique studio sector with the launch of his first Best’s Bootcamp site in London’s ... More

A brand new body set up to represent the group fitness market has laid out an ambitious growth target as it bids to make exercise ... More

Sports equipment provider Youth Sport Direct has launched an introductory multi-sport wheelchair designed to encourage young disabled people to take part in physical activity. The ... More

Football facilities specialist Dean Hogan has been named national contracts manager for Pulse and will drive the leisure solutions provider’s growing presence in the football ... More

British Military Fitness (BMF) has announced an innovative new partnership with Blacks Outdoor Retail to encourage more consumers to try al fresco fitness classes. The ... More

Retail giant John Lewis has poured cold water on speculation that it is planning a push into the gym market. Local media reports suggested the ... More

Sports Direct share have fallen by 13 per cent this morning, as roughly £500m was wiped off the stock market value value of the business ... More

Mike Ashley has added to his budding Sports Direct Fitness empire with the acquisition of the former 37º health club in West London. Recently rebranded ... More

Asda’s plans to add in-store gyms as part of a push into the growing fitness market have been held up as the supermarket battles to ... More

Business secretary Sajid Javid has called on companies in the private sector to play a “massive role” in increasing participation rates in UK sport. During ... More

Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has widened his burgeoning leisure portfolio by taking a 4.94 per cent stake in five-a-side football pitch operator Goals Soccer ... More

DW Fitness has bought seven former LA fitness sites from Pure Gym, Health Club Managment can exclusively reveal. Pure Gym acquired the 42-site LA fitness ... More

Speculation is mounting that Fitness First could soon be up for sale, with owner Oaktree Capital Management said to be lining up a potential suitor ... More

London-based fitness chain Soho Gyms has moved to draw a line under speculation of a potential takeover by outlining plans to develop its existing portfolio, ... More

Sports Direct Fitness is laying the foundations for its ‘aggressive’ expansion over the next year by bringing in fresh blood and setting aside £250m to ... More

Health and fitness operators must redefine the boundaries of their market and embrace innovation if they are to survive and thrive in an increasingly competitive ... More

Sports Direct Fitness is planning an aggressive rollout of new health clubs in 2016, with owner Mike Ashley confident that the gym chain has found ... More

Asda is bidding to help customers shed pounds from their waistline as well as their shopping bill through a new functional fitness concept. Health Club ... More

Pure Gym has emerged as the victor of the long-running race to acquire LA fitness. The gym chain helmed by Humphrey Cobbold has been in ... More