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Is now a golden moment for health and fitness operators to secure favourable leases as desirable anchor tenants? Kath Hudson asks the experts
HCM issue 2 2024
The co-founders of Studio Society talk about taking immersive fitness global and how their new CoverMe app is connecting group-ex instructors to work
HCM issue 9 2023
The global CEO of Barry’s reflects on the company’s evolution as it celebrates its 25th anniversary
HCM issue 9 2023
US health clubs and studios can quickly grow their business with better access to capital. Mindbody’s senior VP of payments tells us more
HCM issue 7 2023
Despite challenging market conditions, people in Europe are flooding back to their health clubs, says Karsten Hollasch from Deloitte Germany
HCM issue 6 2023
We celebrate the incredible life of the founder of Life Fitness and Augie’s Quest, following his recent death from complications arising from ALS
HCM issue 2 2023
The founder of The Boxing House on growth driven by EIS-eligible equity and moving boxing up the socio-economic curve
HCM issue 11 2022
Aescape, a tech company building automated, data-driven massage tables that mimic human
touch, has announced a US$30m (£24.9m, €28.9m) Series A funding round.
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30 Nov 2022
Nowatch, a new contender in the expanding biometric fitness tracker market has developed a
wearable device, in partnership with Philips, which measures cortisol levels and alerts users
about their stress load up to 60 minutes in advance..
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02 Aug 2022
Mindbody has announced that Fritz Lanman will become the company’s new CEO from 3
September 2022. He will succeed Josh McCarter who will join Mindbody’s board of directors.
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02 Aug 2022
Tonal, the at-home strength-training startup backed by Amazon and athletes such as Serena
Williams, Maria Sharapova and Mike Tyson, has announced a restructuring, reducing its
workforce by 35 per cent as part of a move to sustainable growth and profit.
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18 Jul 2022
Aumio, a new sleep, relaxation and meditation app for children has raised €3m to drive market
expansion across Europe and the US. The seed funding round was led by investment platform
Partech and venture capitalist fund byFounders.
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03 Jun 2022
The Grndhouse co-founder tells us how his brand plans to dominate the strength training space in the UK, and beyond
HCM issue 4 2022
HCM celebrated 300 issues last month. We share our postbag of verdicts from our readers
HCM issue 4 2022
Jane Kitchen reports from the recent Global Wellness Summit in Boston, US
HCM issue 4 2022
Altis, an artificial intelligence-based personal trainer solution, has secured more than US$3m worth
of financing, bringing the total investments made in the fit tech brand to date to US$10.5m.
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06 May 2022
Members of the United States Congress and Washington DC staff are competing against each
other in this year’s Congressional Physical Activity Challenge.
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05 May 2022
The founder and CEO of fitness platform Myzone talks future plans after receiving a multi-million dollar investment, and explains the new features that will give clubs the edge for member engagement
HCM issue 3 2022
A year of lobbying, refinancing, landlord negotiations, and staff crises tested the sector to the limit in 2021, but the underlying trend was resolutely upwards, driven by an irrepressible energy
HCM issue 12 2021
Myzone has secured a US$17.2m worth of investment from growth capital investor BGF – a
move that values the brand at US$102m. The deal is all equity-based.
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10 Jan 2022
The MD of Sweat by BXR on Middle East expansion, working with Anthony Joshua and upcoming openings in the UK and Greece
HCM issue 11 2021
Nordic operator SATS is on a mission to get everyone into exercise, as its CEO explains to Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 11 2021
The CEO of Planet Fitness, Chris Rondeau, talks to Kate Cracknell about the franchise operator’s post-lockdown bounceback
HCM issue 11 2021
The Amsterdam-based duo explain their plans for growing the Urban Gym Group using a counter-cyclical investment strategy and multiple brands, while also holding the Benelux master franchise agreement for TRIB3
HCM issue 10 2021
Mindbody has announced it's buying ClassPass, the consumer wellness subscription
service
which enables people to use a range of gyms, studios and wellness facilities for one
monthly
subscription.
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13 Oct 2021
Content providers have been hugely active in the fit tech market since the start of the pandemic. We expect the industry to move on from delivering these services on a ‘broadcast-only’ basis as two-way coaching becomes the new USP
Fit Tech issue 2 2021
EGYM has completed a US$41m Series E financing round led by Mayfair Equity Partners, a leading
tech and consumer growth investor.
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17 Sep 2021
Fitness equipment giant Nautilus has acquired VAY, a firm specialising in AI and motion
technology.
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14 Sep 2021
The appetite for health clubs is strong among consumers and investors – to take advantage of this, operators must figure out how to meet key challenges in operationally sustainable ways
HCM issue 8 2021
The CEO of Third Space talks about the company’s recent deal with KSL and plans for growth
HCM issue 8 2021
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