Health and Fitness Club Industry News: Chains
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Workout Anytime Flexes Muscles with More Gyms Planned Across the Southeast
Posted: August 29, 2018 in Chains
CHATTANOOGA, TN - Jeff Londis co-founded Benchmark Physical Therapy in 1995 and helped build the Chattanooga-based PT therapy chain to more than 350 clinics either owned or managed by Benchmark across the country before selling his interest in that business a couple of years ago. The 57-year-old Chattanooga businessman is flexing his entrepreneurial muscles again in a different industry he bought into a decade ago and has grown to soon include five locations. Londis, the local franchisee for Workout Anytime, hopes to have at least 10 locations and thousands of members in the Southeast within the next three years. Read More...
Crunch Franchise Announces Newest Location in Abilene, Texas
Posted: August 23, 2018 in Chains
ABILENE, TX - Crunch Fitness announced its newest club will be coming soon to Abilene, Texas. The pre-sale will begin in early October, and the first 500 sign-ups get all kinds of special deals and offers. Expected to open mid-December, Crunch Abilene will service the community 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Fusing fitness with entertainment to make serious exercise fun, Crunch Abilene will offer top-quality cardio and strength training equipment, half-hour circuit training, personal training, a functional training area with indoor turf, a dedicated group fitness studio, tanning beds and sunless spray options and more. Read More...
World Gym Athletics Expands Globally; Expects to Grow to 30 Locations by 2019
Posted: August 21, 2018 in Chains
LOS ANGELES, CA - World Gym International, the iconic global brand of seriously fun fitness, is continuing to grow World Gym Athletics with new programming and more locations in the United States and around the world. World Gym Athletics is an exclusive, studio-style, small group training program that combines the best of HIIT, Olympic lifting and functional training. Read More...
Crunch Franchise Announces Its Newest Location in Moorestown, New Jersey
Posted: August 16, 2018 in Chains
MOORESTOWN, N.J. - Crunch Franchise announced the opening of a 26,000 square-foot gym with state-of-the-art equipment and amenities in Moorestown, New Jersey. Opening on November 1, the new expansive club will be located in the popular Eastgate Square shopping center next to the Moorestown Mall. Fusing fitness with entertainment to make serious exercise fun, Crunch Moorestown will offer top-quality cardio and strength training equipment, half-hour circuit training, personal training, a functional training area with indoor turf, The Ride classes, a dedicated group fitness studio, tanning, HydroMassage, online nutrition guidance and more. Read More...
Crunch Franchise Announces Its Newest Locations in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Waco, Texas; 1,500+ Join New Crunch Gym in Tuscaloosa on Record First Day of Pre-Opening Sales
Posted: August 6, 2018 in Chains
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., WACO, TX, and TUSCALOOSA, AL - Crunch Franchise announced the opening of a 20,000 square-foot gym with state-of-the-art equipment and amenities in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as well as the planned opening of a new 24,000-square foot, 24/7 gym with state-of-the-art equipment and amenities in Waco, Texas. Crunch Franchise also announced that 1,536 people signed up for memberships for the Crunch gym opening in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on the first day they became available. That figure sets a Crunch Franchise record for the most memberships sold during the first day of a gym's pre-opening sales period ("pre-sale"). Read More...
Crunch Signs Multi-State Franchise Deal
Posted: July 26, 2018 in Chains
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Crunch Franchise announced a new 10-unit franchise agreement to build clubs in several southeastern states. Crunch currently has more than 1 million members and 250 gyms worldwide in 25 states, Puerto Rico and four countries. The agreement is with Jorge Roldan, CEO of Team Roldan, LLC. Roldan is a fitness-industry franchising expert who most recently launched, owned and operated five Planet Fitness locations, which he sold in 2016. Read More...
Blink Fitness Accelerates Expansion with Strategic Multi-State Deal with Seritage Growth Properties
Posted: July 25, 2018 in Chains
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Blink Fitness, a premium-quality, value-based gym that has challenged industry norms by celebrating how exercise makes you feel, not just how it makes you look, and Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE: SRG) have announced a deal to expand Blink Fitness' reach. The multi-property lease agreement will bring 17 corporate and franchisee-owned gyms to major metropolitan areas across ten states and is a part of Blink Fitness' aggressive strategic growth strategy. Read More...
Orangetheory Fitness: 1,000 Studios… and Counting
Posted: July 23, 2018 in Chains
BOCA RATON, FL - Rose City residents can now get #1000xMoreLife from their workouts with the grand opening of Portland's third Orangetheory Fitness studio, the 1,000th globally for one of the world's fastest growing franchise companies. At a ribbon-cutting event held July 21st, special guests joined Orangetheory Fitness CEO & Co-Founder, Dave Long, in celebrating the company's unique trifecta of science, coaching and technology. Read More...
World Gym Continues International Expansion With 11 New Gyms In 2018
Posted: July 17, 2018 in Chains
LOS ANGELES, CA - World Gym International, the iconic global brand of seriously fun fitness, has 11 new international locations in four countries. World Gym continues its steady growth with these new gyms which are a mix of conversions from existing gyms and brand-new facilities. World Gym International credits its international growth to the strength of the modernized World Gym brand and the expansion of World Gym Athletics, a group training program available at World Gyms around the globe. Read More...
Crunch Franchise Announces Its Newest Location in Corona, California
Posted: July 16, 2018 in Chains
CORONA, CA - Crunch Franchise announced the opening of a 20,000 square-foot gym with state-of-the-art equipment and amenities in the heart of Corona, California. Fusing fitness with entertainment to make serious exercise fun, the new Crunch location will offer top-quality cardio and strength training equipment, half-hour circuit training, personal training, a functional training area with indoor turf, spin classes, a dedicated group fitness studio and more. Read More...
