News: Finance
Ardent Leisure acquires Seven Zest Clubs in WA
The Ardent Leisure Group (ALG) is to acquire a portfolio of seven fitness clubs in Perth from Zest Health Clubs. The seven clubs include five purpose built facilities and two...
Jan 21, 2010
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Royal Botanic Garden Sydney becomes BGCI Patron Member
The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney has become a Patron member of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), joining the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; the Royal...
Jan 12, 2010
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WA Sports Clubs Hit by Griffin Collapse
Sports clubs and community groups in Western Australia are set to lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of funding as a result of the collapse of coal giant Griffin. Griffin...
Jan 12, 2010
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AOC Ends Year With Crawford Attack
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has ended the year with a substantive criticism of the Crawford Report, saying it lacks a "broader vision" for the future of Australian...
Dec 31, 2009
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Club Physical's Richards Named NZ Marketeer of the Year
The Sales and Marketing Institute of New Zealand (SMI) has named Paul Richards, Chief Executive of Auckland's Club Physical, as New Zealand Marketing Professional of the Year....
Dec 24, 2009
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Finance
Free Swimming: An End or a Beginning?
The just published November/December 2009 issue of Australasian Leisure Management includes a feature on the free swimming program run by the Manukau City Council (New Zealand)....
Dec 15, 2009
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Athletics 'cannot compete' with professional sport
Athletics Australia President Rob Fildes says the claim in the Crawford Report that Olympic success does not equate to increased participation at the grassroots level is a...
Dec 14, 2009
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Nautilus sells StairMaster and Schwinn Assets
US-based fitness equipment maker Nautilus, Inc. has announced that it has entered into definitive agreements for the sale of certain assets of its commercial business to Fit...
Dec 10, 2009
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Fitness
Melbourne Aquarium owner reduces losses
Living and Leisure Australia, owner of Melbourne Aquarium and the Otway Fly and Illawarra Fly treetop walks, has announced that it has reduced debt and losses during 2009 and is...
Dec 10, 2009
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Rival Codes Highlight Negative Impact of World Cup Bid
With officials of the Football Federation Australia (FFA) set to guarantee that Australia will be able to satisfy the technical requirements for hosting a future FIFA World Cup,...
Dec 9, 2009
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AFL to move to redeveloped 50,000-seat Adelaide Oval
The world famous Adelaide Oval will undergo a $450 million redevelopment which will see the iconic field transformed into a 50,000-seat world-class stadium. In an agreement...
Dec 3, 2009
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Dubai World Projects in Doubt
Dubai World, the Dubai Government investment company, has sent global financial markets into turmoil by seeking to delay repayments on its $US59 billion of debt. State-owned...
Nov 30, 2009
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Finance
World Cup Boost for NZ Grassroots Football Coaching
Junior football teams around New Zealand are to be backed by 3,500 newly trained coaches for the 2010 winter season. New Zealand Football (NZF) aim to achieve the ambitious...
Nov 27, 2009
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Exercise Australia in administration
Exercise Australia Pty Ltd, distributors of SportArt Fitness and Body Solid fitness equipment, and former distributors of Hoist, Monark and FitVibe products, have entered...
Nov 26, 2009
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Fitness
End of Free Swimming at Shellharbour
Shellharbour City Council has ended its long-held tradition of free access to its swimming pools. Despite strong opposition from swimming clubs, surf clubs and the broader...
Nov 25, 2009
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Aquatics
Australian Olympic Committee challenges role of gemba consultancy
The Australian Olympic Committee's campaign to challenge the recommendations of the Crawford Report has moved focus to industry consultants the gemba Group. Moving to question...
Nov 24, 2009
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SPARC Increases Investment in High Performance Sport
New Zealand's sport and recreation agency SPARC is to invest a record $6.3 million in 19 national sport organisations' high performance programmes and projects following the...
Nov 19, 2009
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Singapore Sports Hub Consortium launches competition to raise funds
The Singapore Sports Hub Consortium has launched a financing competition to help raise funds for the project, estimated to cost S$1.87 billion (AUS$1.44 billion). Last month,...
Nov 19, 2009
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Cultural Policy must move beyond funding disputes
Federal Arts Minister, Peter Garrett believes that Australia's first national cultural policy in more than a decade must move the arts beyond disputes over funding and...
Nov 16, 2009
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Auckland super city plans could end free swimming
Olympic athlete and sports administrator Sir John Walker has voiced fears that thousands of children could lose free access to Manukau swimming pools under plans for the new...
Nov 12, 2009
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Aquatics
Direct debiting aids fitness businesses' cashflow
Almost 1,200 health and fitness centres, personal trainers, swim schools, sporting clubs, dance studios and other niche fitness businesses across Australia have rapidly...
Nov 11, 2009
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Elite sports leaders converge on Canberra
Australia's leading sports scientists, clinicians, technologists, coaches and high performance managers have converged on the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra for the...
Nov 11, 2009
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West Wave Aquatic Centre named Waitakere's best large business
Waitakere City Council's West Wave Aquatic Centre has been named the city's best large business at the 2009 Westpac Waitakere Business Awards. West Wave Assistant Manager Mary...
Nov 10, 2009
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School Swimming Pool Closures Rising
Hundreds of school swimming pools have closed in New Zealand in the past five years, due to schools having no room in their operational grants to maintain them. With 80 school...
Nov 4, 2009
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