All Fitness articles – Page 13
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News briefsSportsArt announces worldwide fitness partnership with Accor Group
Source: SportsArt Ruben Mejia, executive vice president, SportsArt Americas SportsArt, a U.S. provider of fitness solutions, has been chosen by Astore – the French multinational hospitality company Accor Group’s procurement organization – as a global preferred vendor outfitting their fitness centers with SportsArt’s patented ECO-POWR cardio equipment. ...
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ArticleGarmin’s Q2 revenues hurt by another double-digit drop for fitness
Garmin experienced a double-digit decline in revenues from its fitness segment for a second consecutive quarter. That decrease was the primary contributor to an overall 6 percent sales decline to $1.24 billion from nearly $1.33 billion for the period ended June 25. Overall, double-digit sales improvement for its outdoor and ...
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News briefsSports Alliance: Fitness industry is male-dominated
The international fitness industry is male-dominated, and leadership positions are mainly held by men. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by Sport Alliance and Women in Fitness Association (WIFA). A total of 679 participants from the fitness industry took part in the (non-representative) global online survey. The results ...
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News briefsBH Fitness posts double-digit growth in the professional channel
Exercycle, the company behind Spanish fitness equipment company BH Fitness, saw global sales in the professional channel increase by 20 percent in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of last year, CMD Sport reported. The company would normally expect sales in the professional channel to account ...
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AnalysisHow COVID-19 has impacted the Fitness Market – Insights and Trends 2023
Thanks to vaccination and a bit more harmless variants of COVID-19, the fitness market is on the rise again. Booming for years before the pandemic caused a sudden halt, the branch is rearranging itself. In our fitness insights, we take a look at the situation before Corona hit, the changes ...
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News briefsEverlast launches mobile fitness app for assisted home boxing workouts
New York-based boxing specialist Everlast is aiming for the home fitness community with the launch of Everlast Fitness, the only platform exclusively dedicated to boxing to date. Users have access to HIIT, cardio, core, plyometrics, strength and boxing workouts within the platform. These can be done with or without equipment ...
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News briefsAltamont Capital Partners exits investment in Excel Fitness
After a six-year partnership with Excel Fitness, a Planet Fitness franchise group, California-based Altamont Capital Partners has exited its investment with the sale of the company Olympus Partners from Connecticut. As part of the transaction, which closed last month, Excel’s management team and founders worked with Altamont to establish a ...
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News briefsFitnessConnected show in Munich moves to ICM
The FitnessConnected show (planned for Nov. 28-30, 2022) is moving from Hall C1 of the Messe Munich exhibition center to the International Congress Center (ICM). This brings the show into the immediate vicinity of the Therapie München exhibition, which will remain in Hall B0 as initially planned. In addition to ...
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News briefsLacoste opens largest flagship store on Champs-Elysées
Lacoste opened a 1,600-square-meter store at 50 Champs-Elysées in Paris, at the corner of rue du Colisée, on May 20. The new retail space – dubbed Lacoste Arena – is the brand’s largest flagship store globally. Tennis takes center stage in the new store, alongside the brand’s collections for golf ...
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News briefsPlanet Fitness expands into New Zealand
Planet Fitness, an American franchisor and fitness center operator based in Hampton, New Hampshire, signed a territory development agreement with Castle Point Fitness NZ Ltd. to expand the brand into New Zealand. Castle Point is a joint venture between the founder of The Fresnel Companies, a U.S. investment firm with ...
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ArticleXponential Fitness signs multi-brand master franchise agreement for Mexico
Xponential Fitness, Inc., the world’s largest franchisor of boutique fitness brands headquartered in California, announced the signing of a master franchise agreement in Mexico for its StretchLab, Rumble and AKT brands. The agreement provides the master franchisee with the ability to license at least 60 studios of the three brands ...
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News briefsAmer completes sale of Suunto
Amer Sports and Liesheng have completed the transaction in which Amer sold Suunto to the Chinese technology company, first announced in January. Suunto will continue to focus on high-end outdoor wearables under its new ownership, the participating parties said. Rothschild & Co acted as financial advisor and Avance as legal ...
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ArticleGarmin reports record first quarter revenue, growth in all segments except fitness
Garmin reported total revenue of $1.17 billion in Q1 2022. Strong double-digit growth in the outdoor, marine and automotive segments was primarily responsible for the nine percent year-over-year increase. Only the fitness segment saw double-digit declines, and aviation grew by 1 percent. The gross margin was 56.5 percent, while the ...
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News briefsWahoo acquires RGT Cycling and launches Wahoo X subscription service
U.S. company Wahoo Fitness has added the virtual cycling platform RGT Cycling (now Wahoo RGT) to its ecosystem of training and community connection solutions. Wahoo RGT is a virtual cycling simulator platform using detailed virtual roads, to be cycled alone or with others. Routes can be picked either from a ...
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ArticleFIBO is back and the fitness industry is moving again
51,270 visitors attended the world’s largest fitness trade show, FIBO in Cologne, from April 7 to 10, according to the organizers. Internationally, the show was able to attract experts from 109 countries, including Italy, Spain, France, the U.K. and Poland, South Africa, Australia and Brazil, and from Israel and the ...
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Centr, Inspire Fitness merger has Hollywood, Amazon components
The Aussie actor who plays Thor and the brother of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have teamed up to create a new health and wellness platform with global aspirations. HighPost Capital, a private equity firm led by David Moross and Mark Bezos, has acquired Centr, a digital fitness platform founded by ...
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News briefsSuuntoPlus Guides bring new, dynamic features to Suunto watches
About ten years after Suunto’s first app platform, Suunto AppZone, the Finnish GPS sports watch and dive computer specialist is now bringing the new SuuntoPlus Guides to its Suunto 9, Suunto 5 and Suunto 3 watch models. The new SuuntoPlus Guides provide athletes with personalized real-time guidance from their favorite ...
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News briefsAsics researches impact of physical exercise on mental state
In the ongoing Asics’ Uplifting Minds study, research conducted over a period of eight months and with thousands of participants so far, the brand has found a significant impact of physical inactivity on the participants’ minds. Part of the study was the ”Mind Race”, an experiment for which regular exercisers ...
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News briefsFitnessConnected, therapie München and ISPO Munich cooperate
In November, FitnessConnected and therapie München will coincide at the same time as ISPO Munich. The cooperation of the three trade shows includes clear focal points: FitnessConnected will concentrate on the topic of “commercial fitness” in a dedicated trade show hall, ISPO Munich will feature the topic of “home fitness” ...
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News briefsTrue Fitness with changes in sales and marketing leadership
True Fitness, a manufacturer of commercial cardio and strength equipment under the True and Octane brands since 1981, has announced changes to its leadership structure. Through these changes, the company aims to improve its North American and international sales position and continue its growth. David Trulaske has been named the ...
