Below is a copy of my low-cost gym presentation to delegates attending the IHRSA Convention in Los Angeles during March 2012. Please do leave a comment on the presentation or general comments on low-cost (budget) gyms. What is driving the global low-cost gym sector? View more presentations from Ray Algar
I am presently scoping out a new report that investigates the European health club franchising industry. The key report sections are: 1 Strategic analysis of the franchising business model. 2 Interviews with out of industry franchising experts. 3 Interviews with health club franchise CEO's. 4 Detailed club franchise case study. 5 Consumer research. 6 Index of ...
Shortly, I will be publishing my new report that investigates the international growth of the low-cost gym sector. The full report is available free of charge, thanks to support from Precor. The report will be available to download from the Think Tank. The Think Tank requires a quick, one-time registration, after ...
The UK-based National Heart Forum has recently published a report outlining obesity trends for the period to 2020. You can read the full report here. Or, you can read my quick summary below: UK National Heart Forum Report February 2010 View more presentations from Ray Algar
I’ve crawled all over the web to get a sense of how people and exercise are likely to connect as we enter a new year . What follows is a number of ‘trending’ themes and then my interpretation of why people will be attracted. Clicking on a red word will take you ...
I was in a recent meeting with a representative from one of the UK's largest health club chains and discussion moved on to the average weekly attendance of their members. This is where the 0.8 figure comes from. This represents the average weekly attendance by all members over the course ...
Have just returned from meeting Jon Moody from Asomo in Bilbao. Asomo has developed a system that allows on-line comments on web logs and discussion forums to be analysed - quite an achivement when you consider there are presently 55 million web logs! This allows company's to understand what people ...
Mastering Health Club Management is now being furiously despatched to all corners of the globe. I was delighted this week when our first order arrived from a health club owner in Australia, while another company is reviewing it for distribution in New Zealand. To take a peep at the first ...
Good meeting held with Neil Burton of Deloitte last week where I found out more about their new Health Club Benchmark Survey. Most of the largest UK club chains are submitting monthly data, which then allow them to compare operational performance against a pre-determined set of competitors or an entire ...
For those health clubs in the weight loss business, you'd better watch out. The UK firm, Alizyme, has reported good results from trials involving 612 clinically obese patients and its obesity drug, Cetilistat, for diabetics. Patients involved in the trials lost significant amounts of weight and their diabetes became less ...
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