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[6] [11] By 2003, the company had 10 clubs nationwide with 60,000 members in Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Boston and Miami. [10] This increased their revenues and their share prices stood at $9.
Barry’s was founded in West Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1998 by Barry Jay, along with his partners, John and Rachel Mumford. [4] The company opened its first studio outside of the United States in 2011, when it debuted in Bergen, Norway . [1]
24 Hour Fitness is a privately held and operated fitness center chain headquartered in Carlsbad, California. It is the second largest fitness chain in the United States based on revenue after LA Fitness , [ 3 ] and the fourth in number of clubs (behind LA Fitness, Anytime Fitness and Gold's Gym ), [ 4 ] operating 287 clubs across 11 U.S. states.
LA Fitness in Markham, Ontario, Canada. LA Fitness was founded in 1984 by founder Chinyol Yi and Louis Welch in Covina, California. [1] Through the mid-1990s, the company expanded by acquiring under-performing fitness clubs in Southern California, and by developing, opening and operating newly constructed properties.
World Gym International LLC is an American fitness center founded in 1976 by Joe Gold during the glory days of "Muscle Beach" in Venice Beach, California. Joe Gold is also the founder of Gold's Gym , another unaffiliated gym chain, which he sold in 1973. [ 1 ]
In Los Angeles, structural engineers have long warned about the risk of concrete buildings collapsing during a major quake, as happened during the 1971 Sylmar and 1994 Northridge quakes.
On 1 March 1979, the Coordination Council for North American Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China established the Los Angeles Office of the Coordination Council for North American Affairs. On 10 October 1994, it was renamed the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles. [4] [5]
California Fitness was a fitness company based in Hong Kong. It opened its first club in 1996 at the business district of Hong Kong near Lan Kwai Fong. There were 16 clubs in Hong Kong, Singapore and China. California Fitness was acquired in 1999 by 24 Hour Fitness Worldwide, which sold it to the Ansa Group in 2012. [1]