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NEW YORK -- Crunch will expand its reach in Miami as well as
its other primary markets around the country over the next several
months.
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TOLEDO, OH -- The owner of women’s fitness clubs in Ohio
pleaded no contest to one count of failure to remit sales
taxes.
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WASHINGTON, DC -- Most consumers use dietary supplements for
prevention purposes, according to a new survey by the Nutrition
Business Journal.
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NEW YORK -- Six manufacturers and suppliers to the fitness
industry made the Inc. 500 and 5000 lists this year. The lists,
which also include eight health club companies, appear in the September
issue of Inc.
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SILVER SPRING, MD -- Motionsoft Inc. received a $5.5 million
investment from Edison Venture Fund, Lawrenceville, NJ, earlier this
month. The money will go to expand sales, marketing and development,
according to a release from Edison Venture Fund.
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Have you ever seen Anytime Fitness CEO Chuck Runyon and the
company’s official mascot, Captain Running Man, in the same place at
the same time? Check out these photos, and see for yourself.
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Think you have good-looking calves? Well, check these out!
Pattie Mangone of Plum, PA, is the winner of the Life Fitness Search for
America’s Best Looking Calves contest.
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It appears LeBron James has been busy taking his talents to
the weight room. James, the NBA superstar who this season is “taking
his talents to South Beach” to play for his new team, the Miami Heat,
recently posted videos of his workouts on his King James Twitter
page.
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I called around to a few fitness centers in the Boulder, CO,
area last week to see if the fires in the canyon near the college town
were affecting them. The owners of each club I spoke with said that
their clubs were fine. The fire is in a rural enough area that no clubs
are near them.
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Save up to 25 percent on conference packages for the Club
Industry Conference and Trade Show, Oct. 6-8 in Chicago. You can
register for the All-Access Pass, including seminars in all slots, plus
the Luncheon Roundtables and Business Breakthrough Brunch, the
seven-pack including seven seminars or the four-pack that gives you four
sessions. All for a 25 percent savings—that’s anywhere from $70 to
$115 off regular prices. Register
here. You must use Promo Code DIS5 to take advantage of this
discount. All prices are for one person. No sharing, and not combinable
with other offers. This offer is good on new registrations only. If you
have already registered, please do not submit a second
registration.
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LA Fitness,
Irvine, CA, opened a new club last week in the Chicago suburb of
Broadview, IL. The 50,000-square-foot facility in the Broadview Village
Square is in the building formerly occupied by Target. A grand opening
party is scheduled for Oct. 16.
Anytime Fitness,
Hastings, MN, has signed an area development agreement with Wayzata
Poland, a subsidiary of Wayzata Capital, to operate clubs in Poland.
Membership fees at the Polish clubs are expected to be in the $30- to
$40-per-month range. Anytime Fitness previously
announced plans to open clubs in the United Kingdom and Ireland,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Japan.
My Gym Entertainment is producing
“The Activators,” an interactive series for preschoolers focused
solely on physical fitness. Created by screenwriter Gregg Lichtenstein,
the show is on The
Activators.net, with new installments rolling out this
fall.
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Cybex
International, Medway, MA, is the preferred fitness equipment
supplier to Troon Golf, which operates more than 200 high-end private,
resort and daily fee golf properties in 26 countries. Cybex Golf Fitness
is designed to drive year-round revenue for golf properties by enhancing
member retention and attracting new members.
iGo Figure, Houston,
announced that the iGo Figure Membership and Business Management
Software is now available in Mandarin and simplified Chinese. “We saw
the growth of the Chinese fitness market and started receiving more
requests to translate our software to Chinese,” iGo Figure CEO Kyle
Zagrodzky says. “With the iGo Figure Software already available in 14
other languages, it only made sense to also make it available to the
fastest growing economy in the world.”
The American Council on Exercise
(ACE), San Diego, has named Janet Frenkel its executive vice
president of sales and marketing, a newly created position. Frenkel
brings more than 10 years of experience in the health care industry to
the role, in which she will be responsible for developing and executing
business strategies that will maximize ACE’s sales and marketing
opportunities. Frenkel had served as CEO and founder of The Frenkel
Group Inc., a management consulting firm focused on the health care
sector.
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