Health and Fitness Club Industry News: Chains
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Gold’s Gym Introduces Scalable Footprint Franchise Model
Posted: June 24, 2020 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - Gold’s Gym, a trusted fitness authority, has expanded its franchise opportunities to now include a scalable footprint model. This model will offer prospective franchisees the opportunity to invest in ownership of a full-service, full-amenity gym outside a more typical “big box” model. The scalable footprint model, starting at 10,000 square feet, is strategically designed to serve as a full-service Gold’s Gym with amenities including... Read More...
Gold’s Gym Names 2020 Winners In Its Annual 12-Week Challenge
Posted: June 10, 2020 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - Gold’s Gym, a trusted fitness authority, has selected 30 national winners in the annual Gold’s Gym Challenge, its signature 12-week body transformation competition offered exclusively to Gold’s Gym members. These Gold’s Gym Challenge national winners received a total of $100,000 in cash prizes for their incredible and inspiring results. The Gold’s Gym Challenge is a collaboration between Gold’s Gym and the Gold’s Gym Franchisee Association. 2020 Gold’s Gym Challenge sponsors included Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, A.B.B. , Lenny & Larry’s and Matrix Fitness. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Commitment To Equality and Change
Posted: June 8, 2020 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - A message from Adam Zeitsiff, Gold’s Gym President and CEO - Racism has no place in our gyms, our communities or in our country. At Gold’s Gym, we don’t care what color your skin is. We don’t care where you were born. We don’t care who you love. We care that you’re on a journey toward making fitness and wellness an important part of your life. Racism in any way, shape or form is not tolerated at Gold’s Gym. Read More...
Gold’s Gym and PUMA Join Forces to Introduce Limited-Edition Performance Wear Line
Posted: May 27, 2020 in Chains
BOSTON, MA - Gold's Gym, one of the world's trusted fitness authorities, and global sports brand, PUMA, have partnered to create a performance wear collection designed for working out anywhere with street-ready style and features. The PUMA x Gold's Gym limited collection brings together PUMA's legacy in sports performance with the rich heritage of Gold's Gym in an exclusive men's, women's and unisex apparel line that includes high-intensity training footwear along with retro-inspired apparel and accessories. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Launches Upgrades to its Popular Fitness App GOLD’S AMP
Posted: May 12, 2020 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - GOLD'S AMP, a digital personal training app from a brick-and-mortar gym, has revamped and launched an upgraded version for seamless user experience. The results-driven app, introduced initially by Gold's Gym in 2017, will be available for free until May 31, 2020, to U.S. and Canada-based members and nonmembers looking for an elevated, at-home exercise option. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Chapter 11 Restructuring: Official Statement
Posted: May 4, 2020 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - GGI Holdings, LLC and its affiliates (“Gold’s Gym”) filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 in an effort to facilitate the financial restructuring of the company. This pre-negotiated filing will enable us to emerge stronger and ready to grow, and it is our intent to be on the other side of Chapter 11 by August 1, if not sooner. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Temporarily Closes All Company-Owned Locations Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Posted: March 17, 2020 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - Gold's Gym has made the decision to temporarily close all company-owned Gold's Gym locations in the U.S., including Texas, Oklahoma, St. Louis and Carolina gyms through March 31, 2020, to do its part in slowing the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Privately-owned franchised gyms will make their own determinations on when and whether to close and are watching this situation very closely. All Gold's Gym locations have focused on stepping up all sanitary procedures and practices to protect their members and team members in response to the public health crisis. Read More...
Former Gold’s Gym Executive Turns Franchisee with Acquisition of 24 Company-Owned Locations
Posted: March 3, 2020 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - Gold's Gym, a trusted fitness authority, has announced that former Senior Vice President of Eastern U.S. Operations and longtime Washington D.C. resident, Matt Clifford, along with Gold's Gym corporate veterans, Brenda Jorgensen and Josh Fuglsby, has purchased the franchise rights to 24 company-owned gyms throughout the D.C. area. CFJ Holdings is the newest addition to the brand's portfolio of area franchisees, which now collectively covers more than 40 Gold's Gym locations across D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Opens in Oxnard, California
Posted: January 22, 2020 in Chains
LOS ANGELES, CA - Gold's Gym, the world's trusted fitness authority, is set to open its latest state-of-the-art gym in Oxnard on Febuary 1, 2020. As the 20th facility opened by Gold's Gym franchisees Angel and Willy Banos (CEO and COO respectively of Gold's Gym SoCal), the new facility is poised and ready with the highest quality of amenities to help Oxnard locals continue pursuing their 2020 fitness goals. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Celebrates Strongest Year of Worldwide Growth in Company History
Posted: January 15, 2020 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - Gold's Gym, one of the world's trusted fitness authorities, finished 2019 with a record-setting 22 U.S. franchise agreements finalized and a total of 35 grand openings worldwide in the year. Also throughout 2019, Gold's Gym worked to consolidate and optimize brand ownership through franchisee acquisition of company-owned clubs. Gold's Gym SoCal franchise group acquired two facilities, and Gold's Gym Tennessee acquired eight. Read More...
Gold’s Gym Names Restorative Fitness 2020’s Top Fitness Trend
Posted: December 2, 2019 in Chains
DALLAS, TX - Gold's Gym, a trusted fitness authority since 1965, has identified restorative fitness as the top fitness trend for 2020 that will shape how America works out in the next year. Restorative fitness will bring a welcome balance to gymgoers who dove headfirst into 2019's HIIT (high-intensity interval training) trend and are currently experiencing burnout and overtraining injuries. Restorative fitness centers on the idea that the body goes through a cycle of stress and recovery, and high-intensity workouts aren't effective when the body is stressed, as from an intense workout. Read More...
