Oxygen News
Below you will find a selection of recent press releases and news from Oxygen Consulting.
Archived news articles can be accessed by using the left hand menu.
The Oxygen blog is regularly updated, sometimes daily, so take a look if you are searching for 'breaking' news and leisure insight.
September 2008
Swedish Health and Fitness Conference, Gothenburg
Ray has been invited to speak at the Swedish Healthy Business Conference to be held in Gothenburg during December 2009. Ray delivered two presentations to Scandinavian delegates at the 2007 conference. You can view the presentations by browsing over to conference presentations.
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September 2008
IHRSA European Congress – Lisbon, Portugal
IHRSA's (International Health Racquet and Sportsclub Association) European Congress is nearly upon us. This year's event is being held in beautiful Lisbon.
The 2008 Congress features keynote presentations on 'Ryanair: Leading a Business Revolution” by Kell Ryan, Co-Founder of Ryanair; 'From Tennis Ace to Ace of Clubs: Playing to Win' by David Lloyd, Founder of David Lloyd Leisure; 'The European Business Climate in 2028' by Mike Rosenberg, Director of International Executive Education at IESE Business School and 'Managing a Brand' by Gene LaMott, Former President & CEO of Gold’s Gym International. Oh, and Ray is speaking as well. His topic is creating a purpose-driven health and fitness club: 'What does your club stand for?'
The IHRSA European Congress is an event you should consider attending if you are currently working in or running one or more Europe-based fitness facilities. Ray has attended for the past two years and always finds it incredibly useful to listen to insightful presentations and network with delegates from all parts of Europe and North America.
Those nice people at IHRSA are giving Oxygen Consulting contacts a EUR50 discount (that's the equivalent of 25 cappuccinos, which is not be to be sniffed (or sipped) at! Browse over to www.ihrsa.org to see the full programme and quote RAlgar 08EC to qualify for your discount.
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September 2008
New online web portal for health club members
We have been making very good progress on developing a new online web portal that is designed to encourage more people to join health and fitness clubs. Given the growing availability of open source software and web 2.0 tools, the project is becoming much simpler to execute. Once the actual system specification is signed off, we can begin the fun part; building the website.
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August 2008
Developing a new business for a UK sports personality
Discussions are underway for us to assist one of Britain’s most popular sports stars to develop a new health-related business as part of their 'second career' when they decide to retire from top-flight sport.
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July 2008
Ray re-appointed as Deputy Chairman of Wave Leisure Trust
Ray was re-appointed as Deputy Chairman of Wave Leisure Trust/ at the recent board meeting. Ray will be working closely with Claire Mingay, the newly appointed Chair along with Peter Crowley, Managing Director.
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June 2008
UK Private Health and Fitness Club Timeline
Leisure Report Journal commissioned Oxygen Consulting to research and produce a visual timeline for the UK private health club industry. This illustrates how the industry has evolved since 1979. You can view the article here.
The reaction to this article has been very positive. Health and fitness publishers in Germany and Sweden are presently translating the timeline to enable their readers to see how their own gym industries may evolve.
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April 2008
The Sport and Fitness Sector - New Book
Ray has been working closely with the Open University to assist with the development of a new book which supports their 2-year foundation degree, Sport, Fitness & Management. The Sport and Fitness Sector includes three chapters from Mastering Health Club Management.
The book comprises 24 chapters and covers themes such as: health club industry trends, why government supports sport/physical activity, sports participation surveys and lots more. Ben Oakley and Martin Rhys have done a great job in pulling this book together.
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March 2008
Pole Passion expand group instructor network
Pole Passion creates and delivers innovative and empowering group exercise classes for women. For the past three years, we have been advising the company as it expands its UK and overseas activities. We have been commissioned to produce a document describing a licensing opportunity for fitness professionals to deliver group exercise programmes to UK health and fitness clubs.
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February 2008
Oxygen Consulting forges alliance with Spain's, Socialware
 why internet is the media
We are now working with Socialware, the company that developed ASOMO to develop an understanding of what consumers are saying online about the health club experience. Recently, we commissioned the UK's largest-ever study into the online sentiment of UK consumers towards the 'gym experience', which will shortly be published as a research bulletin.
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February 2008
Strategy workshop for Wave Leisure
Wave Leisure is a relatively young trust operating five leisure centres in East Sussex. Ray was invited to become the Deputy Chairman of Wave back in 2006. Ray has a non-executive role with day-to-day management of the trust led by Peter Crowley, the Managing Director. Peter recently asked Ray to lead a strategy workshop, which focused on discussion around Wave's growth aspirations. The workshop was designed to ensure that there was consensus among Wave's trustees and management team regarding Wave's plans for growth. Peter had this to say about Ray's contribution:
"I would just like to say thank you for facilitating the strategy meeting yesterday, for giving up your time and the amount of work that went into the excellent presentation. It was a very interesting morning with worthwhile contributions from all the team. This has now given us the steer and something to work towards. Once again many thanks."
Peter Crowley, Managing Director
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January 2008
MiLife Coaching Personal Trainer Trial
MiLife Coaching is an extremely clever personalised online coaching system, which enables individuals to get in, and stay in, shape. We have been commissioned to project manage a system trial with invited UK personal trainers and their clients to assess how the system can help individuals achieve health and fitness objectives.
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January 2008
Momentum Business Development, led by Duncan Green, is a leading provider of growth services to both independent and club chains across the UK. Presently, the company is developing a nationwide network of regional directors to support its growing client base. Ray was invited to deliver an insightful presentation to new Regional Directors on the theme: Health clubs are stronger with partners. Duncan Green, Chief Executive comments:
"A fascinating presentation on the future of health clubs which left no one doubting the challenges and opportunities facing the industry. Delivered in an entertaining and informative style, the clever use of multimedia drew upon examples from a wide range of sectors to drive home your message in a thoroughly entertaining 60 minute session"
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