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Anytime Fitness is a 24-hour health and fitness club. The company operates over 2700 franchised locations in 19 countries. The gym facilities are open 24 hours a day, 365 days out of the year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Anytime Fitness )〕 Chuck Runyon, Dave Mortensen, and Jeff Klinger founded Anytime Fitness in 2002. Runyon is the CEO of the company.〔 Anytime Fitness is based in Hastings, Minnesota.〔 According to ''Forbes'', Anytime Fitness was the fastest growing health club franchise in 2014. ==History== Runyon, Mortensen and Klinger first met in the early 1990s while working for a fitness club in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1995, they jointly purchased and ran Southview athletic club for seven years.〔 During their ownership of the club, its membership rose from 500 to 4000. They sold the gym in 2001.〔 During their ownership of Southview athletic club, they worked for a consulting firm focused on improving underperforming athletic clubs across the United States.〔 They developed the idea for Anytime Fitness after surveying the expectations that long-term members of large gyms had for their fitness clubs.〔 Chuck Runyon, Dave Mortensen, and Jeff Klinger founded Anytime Fitness in 2002.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Anytime Fitness )〕 Eric Keller, a former employee of Southview athletic club was interested in their business concept and agreed to become the first franchise owner of Anytime Fitness.〔 they provided Keller with support in choosing a site location, marketing strategies, equipment selection, and membership sales.〔 The first franchise location opened in Cambridge, Minnesota later that year. They chose the site because of the lack of other fitness clubs in the immediate area and a population large enough to support a fitness club.〔 Shortly after, two more locations were opened by former Southview athletic club employees Duluth and Albert Lea, Minnesota.〔 Runyon, Mortensen and Klinger sold 29 franchises before they opened their own corporate-owned location in Bemidji, Minnesota.〔 In February 2005, Anytime Fitness opened its 77th club, the first location outside of the United States, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. By 2012, the franchise had opened locations in Australia, Canada, Grand Cayman, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, New Zealand, Qatar, and the United Kingdom.〔 Jeff Klinger left Anytime Fitness in 2009 to pursue other interests.〔 In November 2012, Anytime Fitness bought Waxing the City, a small chain of waxing and hair removal salons. Runyon and Mortensen converted Waxing the City into a franchise model similar to Anytime Fitness.〔 The company hired celebrity tattoo artist, Jimmy Hayden to tattoo its purple running man logo on nearly 200 franchisees, corporate employees, club managers, and personal trainers at an annual conference in 2013. Hayden is also a Anytime Fitness member. The company estimates that approximately 1200 people have the tattoo, including Runyon.〔 Mike Gelfgot, a personal trainer, received the first tattoo when he accepted a dare to get the purple running man logo tattooed on him permanently at a conference. Anytime Fitness provides a tattoo artist at its monthly training events and covers all expenses.〔 The company will reimburse anyone who submits a photo of their tattoo of the logo and describe why they wanted the tattoo.〔 The tattoo typically costs around $100.〔 In December 2013, Anytime Fitness purchased a 38-acre site in Woodbury, Minnesota to build new company headquarters. Roark Capital Group acquired a large minority share in Anytime Fitness in March 2014.〔 Erik Morris and Steve Romaniello, two directors from Roark, joined the board at Anytime Fitness after the acquisition.〔 Mortensen and Runyon remained the company's primary holders and continued to run the business. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anytime Fitness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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