By Tony Stiff
With business leaders needing to know what technological innovation is on the horizon to take advantage of, Tony Stiff, CEO Flowgroup, provides some guidance on the most exciting advancements in transport, the home and fitness.
User Replay is a digital customer experience management business based in Reading and San Francisco – as a fast-growth company, the management is eager to encourage activity among staff, which has been helped with a “magic desk”.
The fitness sector isn’t immune to change, but Real Business found the weapon used to challenge large gym chains is to keep things small and simple with a “boutique” approach.
With a fair share of Brits looking back with guilt at their indulgence over the festive season, we find out how IsosHealth founder Abigail Wilson created the company to deal with just this kind of thinking.
British retail giant Sports Direct, which is owned by billionaire boss and Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, has made “strategic US investments” in two American sporting businesses, opening the door to brands including rapper Jay-Z’s Rocawear.
By Simon Brooke
Justine Roberts, the founder and chief executive of Mumsnet, the networking site for parents, wrote an article in October complaining about how much time women spend getting ready for work. But fitness specialist Julie Creffield has hit back at the claim to defend female leaders.
Quorn Foods, maker of protein-rich meat substitutes, has been sold by owners Exponent Private Equity and Intermediate Capital Group to a Philippines-based food business for £550m.
Connected health business Fitbit has achieved a 253 per cent revenue growth year-on-year, which highlights consumers’ increasing desire for fitness and wearables.
Private equity firm Livingbridge has sold its stake in 12-year-old fitness clothing company inov-8, following a £13.5m investment back in May 2012.
An increasing number of independent gyms, otherwise known as boutique studios, are opening across the UK and a report has warned big chains including Fitness First, Virgin Active and Sports Direct to sit up and listen.
