IHRSA UPDATE WORLD LEADERS
The IHRSA Global 25 provides a stat-based snapshot of the leading 25 health club operators around the world. Jon Feld takes a look at the 2014 figures
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ast month, IHRSA announced the release of The IHRSA Global 25, which lists the top 25 health club companies worldwide in terms of revenue, memberships and units. This
prestigious list of club operators is based on The 2015 IHRSA Global Report, which profiles nearly 400 club businesses worldwide. Last year, one of the key points we made
when reporting on The IHRSA Global 25 was that it appeared operators had put the recession behind them, and were sorting out the keys to successful performance going forward. Based on the numbers produced by the Global 25 for 2014, it seems they’ve decoded the riddle, resulting in uniform growth across all categories.
Club count In a macro sense, the ‘number of facilities owned’ chart (Figure 1) reveals both stability and expansion. The top six companies for 2014 are LA Fitness International, 24 Hour Fitness USA, HealthCity/Basic-Fit, GoodLife Fitness and Énergie Cardio, Fitness First Finance Ltd, and Virgin Active. The list is nearly identical to that of 2013, with a bit of jockeying between positions three and five. The remaining roster includes some
newcomers, like b-fit Health and Sports Inv and Trading Corp, McFit, Groupe Moving, Clever Fit, and Actic. Meanwhile stalwarts Holmes Place and David Lloyd Leisure have disappeared from the list, as have Pure Gym and LA fitness (UK). In addition SATS, Elixia and Fresh Fitness (Norway and Sweden) merged, becoming Health & Fitness Nordic. Nearly every existing player from the 2013 list has grown in terms of number of facilities owned. Again using the top six as an example, their combined number grew from 2,206 to 2,349 year-on-year. Others experienced significant growth: ClubCorp expanded from slightly more than 150 units to 200; Gold’s Gyms International scaled from 110 to 148; and BioRitmo/SmartFit grew from 120 clubs to 186.
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Fig 1 Number of facilities owned (2014) The BioRitmo and SmartFit portfolio grew from 120 to 186 clubs in 2014
Rank & Company
1 LA Fitness International 2 24 Hour Fitness USA, Inc 3 HealthCity/Basic-Fit
4 GoodLife Fitness and Énergie Cardio 5 Fitness First Finance, Ltd 6 Virgin Active
7 b-fit Health and Sports Inv. & Trading Corp 8 McFit
9 ClubCorp
10 Groupe Moving 11 Clever Fit
12 Health & Fitness Nordic 13 BioRitmo/SmartFit
14 Town Sports International Holdings, Inc 15 Fitness World
16 Talwalkers Better Value Fitness, Ltd 17 Gold’s Gym International 18 Actic
19 Snap Fitness
20 Central Sports Co., Ltd 21 Life Time Fitness, Inc 22 Nordic Wellness 23 Renaissance, Inc 24 Fitness Time 25 Bodytech S.A.
Number owned 630
450 350 327 325 267 235 223 200 198 192 188 186 158 154 150 148 144 128 116 113 109 108 100 97
Units run by Town Sports International Holdings (NASDAQ: CLUB) fell from 162 to 158, but this drop was an anomaly.
Amassing members In keeping with this across-the-spectrum growth, the data shows a similar trend for
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Other units N/A
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Franchised: 45 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Franchised: 25 Managed: 10 N/A N/A
Franchised: 541 N/A
Franchised: 1,306 Managed: 67 N/A N/A
Managed: 11 N/A
Franchised: 32
Total units 630
450 350 327 370 267 235 223 200 198 192 188 211 168 154 150 689 144
1,434 183 113 109 119 100 129
membership numbers. The top five (Figure 2) remain identical in rank from 2013 to 2014 – Planet Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness USA, Gold’s Gym International, Anytime Fitness and Virgin Active – but their overall membership numbers grew from around 14.8 million in 2013 to 16.7 million in 2014.
July 2015 © Cybertrek 2015
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