California Fitness: Fitness Chain Staff in Thailand Claim Firings Unfair
Mar. 26 Twenty former employees of California Fitness Centres Co have filed a suit with the Labour Court against the fitness chain, seeking compensation for unfair termination. But Eric Levine, chief executive of California Fitness, said the dismissed staff members had seriously violated company regulations, as well as engaged in "fraud, forgery and negligence".The 20 former personal trainers are seeking up to 900,000 baht per person in compensation. All the...
Exodus from California,
Shock resignations of nine senior personal trainers from California Fitness leave 200 clients in a fix
IN A shock move, nine personal trainers, including two bodybuilding champions, have left the Republic Plaza branch of fitness chain California Fitness.The mass exodus has affected an estimated 200 clients.Among those who quit the club in March are veteran bodybuilder Augustine Lee, who picked up a national bodybuilding title at the age of 51 last month, two-time Asian women's bodybuilding champion Joan Liew and four other senior trainers.Each trainer had a portfolio of...
CHAIN SET FOR HEALTHY EXPANSION,
California Fitness to add two central Ohio locations, move into other markets
California Fitness, central Ohio's most popular chain of health centers, is about to flex its muscles.The 3-year-old chain is opening its fifth and sixth clubs and wants to build several more. The company, based in Columbus, is opening California Fitness centers in the former Lazarus store on Henderson Road and in Grove City.President Greg Rowe said he is interested in opening four or five more California Fitness centers in the Columbus area. He is considering sites in...
California Fitness: Thai Cinema Group Takes Stake in Fitness Centers
Sep. 10 Major Cineplex Group Plc, the country's largest cinema chain, has acquired a 49 percent stake in California Fitness Centers in Bangkok for 139 million baht to support its expansion plans. Major purchased the 303,800 shares from Ortica Co, the local licensee of US-based California Fitness. To maintain an equity interest of 49 percent, Major will purchase another 176,400 shares at 100 baht each, totalling 17.64 million baht.Ortica Co is jointly owned by Singaporean...
California Fitness: Asia Cashes In on the Cachet of 'California'
The giant billboard promises sunshine, palm trees and muscular bodies.This is the California Fitness Center, one of three multistory exercise clubs in Hong Kong that push the idealized California dream of the perfect body: washboard abdomen and bulging pectorals.The club members, seemingly mustered day and night in frenetic columns several rows deep, are part of the display, clearly visible through plate-glass windows astride or atop their computerized machines. In busy Hong Kong,...