• Ethan Lewis and Brian Massoll inked a franchise development agreement to open SweatHouz locations along Florida’s western coast.
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Multi-concept platform companies and private equity firms are leading a flurry of M&A activity across the franchised home services and wel…
Jamie Weeks always had big plans. After his first transaction with Prospect Hill Growth Partners in 2017, when the private equity firm became …
“A lot of people went through the pandemic and had a reflective period of, if this maybe isn’t the path they want to be on,” said Jamie Weeks …
Orangetheory celebrates the opening of its 1,000th studio, this one in Portland, Oregon. Pictured, left to right, are Kevin Keith, Paul Reuter…
When I met Dave Long at one of Orangetheory's studios in Houston in November, the fitness franchise had just crossed the 800-unit mark and Long, its CEO, was talking about one week when the brand opened 11 locations, calling it “kinda crazy.” Ranked No. 1 on our 2018 Franchise Times Fast & Serious list of the smartest-growing brands, Orangetheory has kept up the pace, cutting the ribbon last week on its 1,000th location.
We're a nation of slugs. The Department of Health and Human Services, for example, reports just 5 percent of adults participate in 30 minutes of physical activity each day and only one in three exercises enough. The Centers for Disease Control claim 93.3 million adults in this country (or roughly 40 percent) are obese. And we haven't even mentioned children.