Mortensen and Runyon remained the company's primary holders and continued to run the business.Įxterior view of Anytime Fitness headquarters in Woodbury, Minnesota. Erik Morris and Steve Romaniello, two directors from Roark, joined the board at Anytime Fitness after the acquisition. Roark Capital Group acquired a large minority share in Anytime Fitness in March 2014. In December 2013, Anytime Fitness purchased a 38-acre site in Woodbury, Minnesota to build new company headquarters. The company will also reimburse anyone who submits a photo of their tattoo of the logo and describe why they wanted the tattoo.

Anytime Fitness provides a tattoo artist at its monthly training events and covers all expenses. Members and employees have a history of getting the logo tattoo, with an estimated 4,000 individuals inking their bodies, including CEO Chuck Runyon. In October 2013, the company hired celebrity tattoo artist and Anytime Fitness member, Jimmy Hayden, to tattoo its purple running man logo on nearly 200 franchisees, corporate employees, club managers, and personal trainers at an annual conference. Runyon and Mortensen converted Waxing The City into a franchise model similar to Anytime Fitness. In November 2012, Anytime Fitness bought Waxing The City, a small chain of waxing and hair removal salons. By 2012, the franchise had opened locations in Australia, Canada, Grand Cayman, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, New Zealand, Qatar, and the United Kingdom. In 2011, Anytime Fitness expanded into Qatar, Poland and the Netherlands. At that point, it had already expanded into Mexico and India. In mid-2010, the company announced plans to open clubs in Japan, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Chuck Runyon took over the role as CEO upon his departure. In December 2009, Jeff Klinger, who had been the company's CEO since inception, sold his shares in Anytime Fitness and stepped down from his role as CEO. īy October 2009, the company had more than 1,200 clubs with around 800,000 members. In January 2009, they opened their 1000th club in Wake Village, Texas. They also had 12 locations that they owned themselves. By 2008, the company had almost 700 franchisees in 45 U.S. In February 2005, Anytime Fitness opened its first club outside of the United States in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 2005-2010: Growth and international expansion Runyon, Mortensen and Klinger sold 29 franchises before they opened their own corporate-owned location in Bemidji, Minnesota. Shortly after, two more locations were opened by former Southview Athletic Club employees in Duluth and Albert Lea, Minnesota. 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. The first franchise location opened in Cambridge, Minnesota later that year. They provided Keller with support in choosing a site location, marketing strategies, equipment selection, and membership sales. 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.

Runyon, Mortensen, and Klinger founded Anytime Fitness in 2002. They developed the idea for Anytime Fitness after surveying the expectations that long-term members of large gyms had for their fitness clubs. During their ownership of Southview Athletic Club, they worked for a consulting firm focused on improving under-performing athletic clubs across the United States. During their ownership of the club, its membership rose from 500 to 4000. In 1995, they jointly purchased and ran Southview Athletic Club for seven years. Anytime Fitness co-founders Chuck Runyon and Dave MortensenĬhuck Runyon, Dave Mortensen, and Jeff Klinger first met in the early 1990s while working for a fitness club in St.

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