The largest fitness chain in Denmark has been bought by the british fitness chain PureGym. It shall notify the PureGym in a message on the website, and it is confirmed by the Fitness Worlds press.
the Message returned nothing about the price of the acquisition.
– I am thrilled to be a partner with PureGym – a company that in just ten years has fundamentally changed the fitness industry in the Uk, says Fitness Worlds director, Steen Albrechtslund, in the message.
Their decision to invest in the Fitness World, testify what is the business we have built.
In the communication from the PureGym says director Humphrey Cubbold that the deal must make PureGym to a world-leading player in the market for fitness fitnesskæder.
the Fitness World is a business that we know and have long admired, he says in the message.
the Fitness World in addition to Denmark centers in Poland and Switzerland.
In total, the Fitness World over 230 training centres and more than 600,000 members. Of them are 170 of the centres in Denmark. Here there are around 4300 instructors, personal trainers, nutritional advisors and other employees.
so Far, the Fitness World has been owned by the Lego-pengetanken Kirkbi and private equity fund FSN.
To erhvervsmediet the stock Exchange confirms the leading partner in FSN Thomas Broe-Andersen deal.
– Pure Gym is a good buy, and the Fitness World fits well into their plans. So it was a perfectly natural place to deliver the Fitness World, says Thomas Broe-Andersen to the Exchange.
He refuses to tell anything about the price of the deal, but calling its ownership of the Fitness World for ‘a good investment’.
the Deal is expected to be completed in the beginning of next year.
In the course of its 15 years, the Fitness World has now reached a turnover of 1.5 billion crowns. The company’s headquarters is located in Rødovre, and in addition to the Fitness World, owner of the company chain Urban Gym.
