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Dynamic Duo
Dynamic Duo: 11/2004 John Atwood and Beth Wald by Kristen A. Walsh Driving down Chestnut Street in Needham, Massachusetts, it’s easy to blink and miss HealthFit. The small club is tucked 50 yards back from the main street in the quaint New England town. Other than a small, understated sign, [...]
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Financial Tool Adds Advantage
Financial Tool Adds Advantage 7/2004 Club Advisor By Jon Feld The IHRSA Advantage program offers club owners the opportunity to purchase a wide, and ever-expanding, range of products and services from office supplies, to electricity, to prepackaged sales seminars at remarkable prices. Among the newest and most exciting Advantage product [...]
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Flex Space
Flex space: ad firm HCMN has been pumping up sales with its network of digital video screens and posters in gyms. By JOEL RUSSELL Staff Reporter AD lineage is way down at newspapers. Glossies like Vanity Fair are far skinnier than they once were. Even local television stations are laying [...]
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IHRSA Releases New and Improved Financial Management Tool
IHRSA Releases “New & Improved” Financial Management Tool (FMT) for Health Club Operators BOSTON-December 10, 2007- The International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) announced today the release of the Financial Management Tool (FMT), a strategic resource for health clubs. The FMT is an Excel -based package that was originally [...]
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Shaping Up at the Pop-Up - Wall Street Journal 10-19-2011
By GABRIELLE BIRKNER Chelsea Market, home to Fat Witch brownies, Lucy’s Whey cheeses and Nutella-stuffed crepes at Bar Suzette, is among New York City’s premier locales for consuming calories. For the next two weeks, a pair of entrepreneurs hope the fancy-food market will become a destination for burning them, too. [...]
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LA Times Article 12/10/2011 LA Fitness Acquires 171 Bally's clubs
Bally Total Fitness in Inglewood along with 170 more Bally locations nationwide… (Anne Cusack, Los Angeles Times) December 10, 2011|Ricardo Lopez LA Fitness, one of the largest gym chains in the country, has become an even more dominant player in the health club industry. The Irvine company last week took [...]