PA Awards 2021 November 8, 2021 Behind every great business person is an exceptional PA, EA or VA. City A.M. is once again celebrating those Personal, Executive and Virtual Assistants in a unique ceremony at Bob Bob Ricard in the heart of the Square Mile on Tuesday 7th December. This year’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever, with more [...]
London needs micro-homes to solve the housing crisis January 21, 2019 Size doesn’t matter. When it comes to property at least, it’s all about location, location, location. Everyday, thousands of city workers (yes, I’m talking about you) are forced into excruciatingly long commutes from the outskirts of London, because living in the city centre – and, frankly, most of the capital – is simply unaffordable. Micro-housing would [...]
The Gym Group says it could outrun a post-Brexit vote recession July 5, 2016 Pay-as-you-go fitness provider The Gym Group has said business would not be affected by Britons' penny-saving in the event of a post-Brexit vote recession. "We started The Gym Group in 2008 at the start of the last recession so it's difficult to forecast, particularly as we're a low-cost business, that there would be a bad [...]
Weapon of choice: How nutrition brand Grenade has exploded into the market November 12, 2018 Grenade is the kind of brand that just appears out of nowhere – you blink and suddenly the products are a staple stock in shops around the country. For those who have somehow missed the craze, Grenade is a food company specialising in healthy snacks – and now you’ve heard the name, you’ll probably start [...]
Our broken university system is setting future Britain up to fail November 30, 2018 Two news stories this week should strike terror into the hearts of anyone concerned with the British higher education system. First, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) released figures on the impact of a university degree on earning potential, and found that sometimes it just isn’t worth it. By the age of 29, men who studied [...]
Fitness advice: How to get back into a lapsed gym routine and reclaim your lost mojo June 13, 2018 If you haven’t exercised for a while, it can be difficult to get back into the swing of things. It happens all too easily: you have an intense few days at work, drink too much at the weekend, have a couple of big meals out, and suddenly your energy levels are low, you’re sleeping badly [...]
Gym Group’s share price falls as losses widen following last autumn’s IPO March 15, 2016 The Gym Group sweated out revenue growth of over 30 per cent last year – but the company's share price fell as losses widened. The figures The pay-as-you-go fitness company registered revenues of £60m in 2015, up 32 per cent on the £45.5m recorded in 2014. However, pre-tax losses widened to £12.4m, up 32 per cent on last [...]
January gym bunnies have sent visits to this budget chain soaring February 26, 2017 One of the UK's fastest-growing budget gym chains received a massive boost during January, as exercise enthusiasts bent on achieving their New Year's resolutions went crazy for cardio and whacky for workouts. Pay-as-you-go The Gym Group said the number of people with visiting its branches rose 21 per cent in the year to January – that's [...]
Central London bulked up on budget gyms last year with 46 per cent of new openings in the low-cost sector January 5, 2017 Londoners may want to get healthy (especially after the Christmas and New Year excess fest), but they also don't want to break the bank while they do it. Almost half (46 per cent) of the new gyms that opened in Central London last year were budget gyms, classed as having membership plans costing less than [...]
Fitness advice: My favourite gym stories, from epic #gymfails to overzealous grunters October 19, 2017 This Saturday marks our ninth year anniversary at our City gym No1 Fitness. I’ve now been in the fitness industry for over 12 years, and during that time I’ve seen that the gym isn’t only a place to burn calories: it’s somewhere to make life-long friends, to feel better about yourself, to clear your [...]