Open 24/7
The newest player in the gym industry in Australia is
Anytime Fitness and at membership fees of $50 a month
and being open 24 hours a day 365 days a week is certainly
going to appeal to alot of people.
Fitness First charges approx $80 month and has had alot of
problems with unhappy customers so its good to see some new
competition out there.
With Virgin Health clubs launching ins Australia this year as well
its going give consumers alot more choice !
Dean Piazza
Your Online Personal Trainer
www.getfit.com.au
Anytime Fitness, the largest co-ed fi tness
club franchise in the world with nearly 1000
clubs now open, has opened its first two
Australian clubs and has 20 more scheduled
to open in 2009.
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‘Our goal is to open 350 clubs in Australia
and New Zealand within the next fi ve
years’ said Jacinta McDonell Jimenez who,
along with her brother Justin McDonell, is a
master franchisee for Anytime Fitness; ‘We
recognised that this business model was
fulfi lling an important need in the United
States.
We want to do the same thing here’.
The need being met, according to
Jimenez, is clean, safe and relatively
inexpensive fi tness clubs, featuring top-ofthe-
line equipment, located in medium and
small-sized communities that don’t have a
lot of other fi tness options.
‘Our clubs are friendly and nonintimidating.
We cater to people who are
looking for a nice, neighborhood fi tness
club, but who don’t necessarily want to hang
around the gym because they simply don’t
have the time’ said McDonell.
Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,
Anytime Fitness has 800,000 members and
expects to achieve system-wide sales in
excess of US$100 million in 2008. In February
2008 Entrepreneur magazine ranked Anytime
Fitness the 13th fastest-growing franchise
of any type in America and Franchise Times
magazine ranked Anytime Fitness 35th on its
‘Fast 55’ list of new franchises. For the fourth
year in a row, Fitness Business Review has
given Anytime Fitness its top rating and an
FBR 50 Franchisee Satisfaction Award.
The Anytime Fitness club in Gunnedah
(population 7,000) signed up over 200
members within two weeks of opening,
and franchisees have purchased the rights
to open 20 additional Anytime Fitness
clubs in Australia. More clubs are slated
to open in the coming months in Sydney
City, Muswellbrook (NSW), Belmont
(NSW), Braybrook (VIC), Mandurah (WA),
Campbelltown (NSW) and Adelaide (SA).
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http://www.anytimefitness.com.au/en-au