US news & features
Can your fitness business pass the five-word test, asks Jay Ablondi, plus a congress report from Vienna
HCM issue 1 2013
Good programming and well-trained staff can unlock the potential of functional training zones for special population groups. Kath Hudson finds out more
HCM issue 1 2013
Technogym has opened its brand new headquarters: the Wellness Village in Cesena, Italy. Kate Cracknell pays a visit and finds an exemplary corporate wellness model
HCM issue 1 2013
Football clubs are developing community outreach programmes that are addressing social issues and linking local people together. Neena Dhillon reports
HCM issue 1 2013
Nick Batram asks whether the investment climate is now right for some health and fitness companies to re-enter the UK stock market
HCM issue 1 2013
Spafinder Wellness is to expand its Last Minute platform to Miami, Chicago and
Los Angeles in
November. The service has been designed to help spas, health clubs and
wellness centres more easily fill
open appointment times that previously would have gone un-booked.
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17 Oct 2012
Former US President Bill Clinton and Giorgio Napolitano, the President of Italy, will be at the opening of
the Technogym Village on 29 September 2012, along with 800 other guests from more than 60 countries.
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28 Sep 2012
A new CHI-branded spa is to open at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore in October as
part of the wider SG$66m (US$53.1m, EUR43m, £34.1m) revamp of the property's
Garden Wing.
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06 Aug 2012
Online health and beauty marketplace Wahanda has introduced Wahanda Connect - an
online booking
system connecting businesses with customers. The new platform provides an
end-to-end marketing
solution allowing spas, salons, wellbeing, fitness and beauty professionals to
get listed and sell to the end
customer via Wahanda's network.
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01 Aug 2012
Marriott International has announced the launch of its new careers presence on
the Chinese social network, Weibo, as part of efforts to hire 30,000 people by
the end of 2014.
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29 Jun 2012
A new results-orientated skincare line and the latest light therapy technology
will be on offer at the Spa at Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore, US, as the result
of a partnership with B Kamins.
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21 Jun 2012
A new £37m initiative has been launched with the support of government funding
to improve the health, wellbeing and quality of life for nearly 170,000 older
people across the UK.
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01 Jun 2012
Pete Ellis, chair and CEO of SpaFinder, has launched WellTech, a new health and
wellness-focused 'incubator' designed to support, develop and bring new
technology companies to market. Selected firms using technology to devise new consumer health and wellness solutions will receive a minimum investment of US$50,000.
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28 Mar 2012
Cloud-based management software provider GramercyOne and deals website
Lifebooker have announced a partnership which will enable spas to market
unfilled appointments through their business management software.
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28 Mar 2012
Online health and beauty marketplace Wahanda has secured a partnership agreement
with deal website lastminute.com UK to manage the portal's spa category.
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23 Mar 2012
The EU is now focusing on physical activity as a way of addressing obesity, and is looking to our sector for solutions, says Kate Cracknell
HCM issue 3 2012
ThriveWell's Erin Ercoline talks to Kate Cracknell about the DIVA exercise and nutrition programme for breast cancer patients
HCM issue 3 2012
Cloud-based business management software provider GramercyOne has launched
GoSuite, a free booking and marketing tool aimed at small and medium-sized
service businesses.
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27 Oct 2011
GramercyOne, the company behind spa industry software SpaBooker, announced today
that it has secured US$14.5m (10.5m euro, £9.2m) of VC funding from a raft of
new backers led by Revolution Ventures - the company behind Living Social, spa resort Miraval and Exclusive Resorts.
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20 Oct 2011
Intelligenz Solutions, the Australia-based provider of integrated software for
the fitness, spa, wellness and hospitality sector, has revealed plans to enter
the UK market for the first time.
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27 Sep 2011
Panatta's mission is to create machines that are aesthetically pleasing, functional and competitive in price ...
The UK's largest annual trade event dedicated to physical activity, health, and performance...