Welcome to our newest gym owner business profile. Offered up once a month, these profiles are created to share ideas and challenges between gym owners. Each privately owned gym fuels from a unique set of circumstances. Hopefully, you will find inspiration in their experiences. Gym owner profile: MorGainz Fitness, Pennsylvania It started as a retirement plan. After careers in nursing and police work, Kelly and David Morgan were ready to switch tracks. Always total gym people, they dusted off a business plan written for a college nursing course, and decided to fix a problem. Their small Richland, PA, community did [...]
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The UFC has made a name for itself in the field of mixed martial arts (MMA). They have taken that success and ambitiously turned it into a familiar label onto a new big-box gym franchising operation that puts a body lock on their opponents. They are stable-mates with some of the big national brands but with the ability to leverage an entire menu of unique merchandising. Still, the question remains: What are the chances of this athletic-entertainment powerhouse muscling in on the gym arena? It turns out that its customers and employees have something to say about that. A Short [...]
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The largest fitness franchise in the world, Curves International, has listed close to 3,500 locations in the United States, where the health club first originated in 1992.[i],[ii]. The fitness franchise was co-founded by Gary and Diane Heavin in the year 1995,[iii] and has grown to an approximate 10,000 location worldwide.[iv] Today it is present in over eighty-five countries, and has helped millions of women worldwide.[v] The owners of the health club, husband and wife, have their headquarters in Waco, Texas. Although it is specifically for women, some Curves centres allow male members as well. Their competition in this field includes [...]
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