JUNE 2018
Anytime Fitness appoints new sales and marketing director
n Anytime Fitness has appointed Neil Randall as its new UK sales and marketing director as the gym brand aims to further grow its number of sites in the UK.
Neil, who has overs 15 years’ experience in the fitness industry with Virgin Active and LA Fitness, will play an important role in recruiting new franchisees to the Anytime Fitness network, which currently has over 140 clubs in the UK. Neil’s role will also see him be a key point of contact for Anytime Fitness’s current franchisees, as well as overseeing and deploying the company’s UK marketing budget and managing national partnerships.
He is the second addition to Anytime
Fitness’s UK senior management team in 2018, following Ben Dixon’s appointment
as commercial and property director, and will report to UK CEO Stuart Broster. Neil says: “I’m delighted to have joined Anytime Fitness and look forward to working alongside Stuart and Ben as part of a new team to help drive the company’s presence in the UK.
“My time in the fitness industry has
provided me with experience at front of house, on the floor and in head office, giving me an ideal background to support new and existing franchisees who are often not fitness industry specialists. “We’re in a great place to continue our
growth trajectory in the UK and I’m looking forward to supporting our ambitious network of fitness club owners.” Neil joins from his most recent role of chief operating officer at Go Mammoth, the UK’s largest provider of after-work
New owner at Wilkins Chimney Sweep
n Wilkins Chimney Sweep has been sold to Darren Taylor Holdings, the owner of StumpBusters UK. Peter and Louise Harris have sold
Wilkins as an ongoing operation and it will remain “business as usual”, with Louise as franchise manager and Peter continuing to act as a technical consultant. Darren Taylor was a franchisee with StumpBusters until he purchased the business in 2013, to which he now adds Wilkins. Louise says: “We are so pleased to have been acquired by Darren and his team. Darren fully understands the owner-operator business model and the challenges that our franchisees have in growing their businesses, as well as the franchising model as a whole.” Darren comments: “Louise and Peter
have created a strong foundation for Wilkins Chimney Sweep, with some very impressive systems and technologies. I’m really looking forward to working with the franchisees to build on their hard work and to bringing on new franchisees, who would also like to benefit from the dedication and commitment of their franchisors. “The unique nature of the chimney- sweeping business really attracted me
and gives me the opportunity to expand in the mobile franchise market and to grow the business.”
VAN FACTS
• Van activity is predicted to almost double between 2010 and 2040
• Vans are the fastest growing of all the vehicle groups
• Vans make up 14 per cent of all traffic on UK roads
• Goods deliveries by van contribute £27.5billion to the UK economy
• The commercial vehicle sector contributes £11billion to the UK economy each year, with the vehicles covering over 61 billion miles
• If you parked all the vans in the UK end to end, they would stretch 28 times the length of the A1
• The combined payload volume of all vans on UK roads adds up to 26.2 million cubic metres – the equivalent of 10,483 Olympic-size swimming pools
• More than half (57 per cent) of vans in the UK are white, with silver (11.4 per cent) and blue (nine per cent) the second and third most popular
• 1 in 3 van owners is female
To read more about running your own van-based franchise, turn to page 57
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sports and fitness activities. During his two-and-a-half years with the company, he oversaw a restructure of the business, as well as driving and creating bespoke IT and technology to help scale the business.
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