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An Analysis of the U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004 and the Role of Bally Total Fitness

"LA Fitness grew out of three clubs, each owned by one of the founders. In 1990 Fred Turock, Jeremy Taylor and David Turner decided to get together to jointly manage these clubs, with the aim of building up a network of gyms with first class facilities. In 1996 they created the LA Fitness brand and the following year they joined the top ten health and fitness club operators, catering to a wide variety of people of all shapes and sizes and with a huge range of goals. In 1999 the growth and success of the LA Fitness group led to a listing on the London Stock Exchange. In 2005 the team decided they needed more control - they wanted to make sure LA Fitness could continue to provide affordable membership and a fun environment for its growing

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Bally Total Fitness is a public firm in the U.S. health club industry. Since 1962, the company had developed into a large and nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers in the Unite States. But with the increasingly fierce market competition and the internal management problems such as poor accounting standards, the stock price of the company collapsed. Some shareholders had lost faith in the company. A major shareholder of the company was urging the CEO to sell the company. So the company faced two alternatives, one alternative was to sell the company to meet the demand of shareholders; the other alternative was to strengthen its internal control system to remedy the management fault. In this way to restore the

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Children of anxious parents are at greater risk for developing anxiety disorders (Schrok 2010). High parental control, insecure attachment and the parental modeling of poor coping strategies have been identified as parent-related risk factors that may contribute to the development and maintenance of childhood anxiety disorders. In response to the growing research on the influence of parental factors, a number of child-parent interventions have been developed to integrate parents into their child’s therapy. A popular child-parent intervention, Family Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (FCBT), addresses common parental factors that have been associated with the development and maintenance of childhood anxiety disorders including parental control,

Bally Total Fitness is the largest, and only nationwide, commercial operator of fitness centers. Bally's has approximately four million members and 420 facilities across the United States and around the globe. (ballyfitness.com, 2004) A marketing audit was performed on the company in order to assess their total marketing program to see what was and was not working to increase business. The following will summarize key findings of environmental aspects and marketing. Finally, any recommended actions that may be considered for future planning will be discussed.

PESTLE stands for Political, Economy, Social, Technology, Legal and Environmental (PESTLE analysis, 2014). The importance of PESTLE analysis comes when, firstly, there’s a demand to analyse the specific issues on the country such as race and religion difference, to guide the company to enter the market without offending any race and religion. Secondly, to find out how the government policies works in the country and how to make deals accordingly based on it. (Partridge, 1999). Thirdly, to identify the economy of the country, such as the income levels of the people and the standard of living to decide whether the products offered is at the same standard, and worth the expenditure.

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• Mr. Sean V. Phillips M.Sc. joined Fitness First PLC in 1993 as General Manager and was appointed to the Board as Director in 1996. Mr. Phillips also serves as Sales and Fitness Director, Mr. Phillips has an MSc in Exercise Science and a BSc Hons in Health and Physical Education. He has been involved in health club management since 1986 including as General Manager of a number of major LivingWell Health Clubs in the UK.

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Sustainability is regarded as a goal of any business. The accounting framework, to support sustainability goal is called as the triple bottom line (TBL).It focus on performance of an organization with the interrelated dimensions of profits, people and the planet.