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Article: Stress fuels healthy results at LA Fitness
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- March 28, 2001
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HEALTH club operator LA Fitness has reported a 65 per cent hike
in profits after benefiting from higher levels of stress in the
workplace.
LA Fitness saw its membership shoot up 68 per cent last year to
64,000 as it opened two new gyms in England. The company's portfolio
in the UK now stands at 26.
Chief executive Fred Turok explained that more people were
turning to fitness clubs as a way to combat the stress caused by the
increasing pressures they were facing in the workplace.
"People now feel exercise is a better way of combating stress
than any number of pills and potions," he said.
LA Fitness reported pre-tax ...