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As of December 2023, Bannatyne has 69 health clubs, 45 spas and three hotels across the UK. [6] On 9 August 2006, Bannatyne Fitness Ltd acquired the LivingWell Premier Health club chain from the Hilton Hotel UK Group. [7] The company also bought Clarice House and Xpect Leisure in 2015, growing its membership by 14% over the year to 186,456. [2]
Duncan Walker Bannatyne, OBE (born 2 February 1949) [1] is a Scottish entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author. His business interests include hotels, health clubs, spas, media, TV, and property. His business interests include hotels, health clubs, spas, media, TV, and property.
Bannatyne is a Scottish surname. It is also spelt Ballentine, Ballantyne, Ballantine, among others. It is also spelt Ballentine, Ballantyne, Ballantine, among others. It may refer to:
The Bannatyne Club, named in honour of George Bannatyne and his famous anthology of Scots literature the Bannatyne Manuscript, was a text publication society founded by Sir Walter Scott to print rare works of Scottish interest, whether in history, poetry, or general literature. The club was established in 1823 and printed 116 volumes before ...
Bannatyne helped organize the Winnipeg General Hospital and was involved in other business and philanthropic ventures in Winnipeg. [3] He was the first president of Winnipeg's Board of Trade and first president of the Manitoba Club. [2] After becoming a very rich man, Bannatyne was virtually wiped out when the land boom crashed in 1882. [1]
A page from The Bannatyne Manuscript.(National Library of Scotland)George Bannatyne (1545–1608), a native of Angus, Scotland, was an Edinburgh merchant and burgess. [1] He was the seventh of twenty-three children, including Catherine Bannatyne, born of James Bannatyne of Kirktown of Newtyle in Forfarshire and Katherine Tailefer. [2]
Bannatyne Cove is a Canadian fishing settlement in the Humber-Bay of Islands electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador. [1] It is slightly southeast of Sopers, Allens Brook, Mount Moriah , and Giles Point, and slightly northwest of Pleasant Cove, Petries, and Georgetown . [ 2 ]
The Bannatyne Manuscript is an anthology of literature compiled in Scotland in the sixteenth century. It is an important source for the Scots poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The manuscript contains texts of the poems of the great makars , many anonymous Scots pieces and works by medieval English poets.