California Fitness

JV Fitness
California Fitness
Company typePrivate
IndustryFitness
Founded1996, Hong Kong

California Fitness was a fitness company based in Hong Kong. It opened its first club in 1996 at the business district of Hong Kong near Lan Kwai Fong. There were 16 clubs in Hong Kong, Singapore and China. California Fitness was acquired in 1999 by 24 Hour Fitness Worldwide, which sold it to the Ansa Group in 2012.[1]

California Fitness was the trading name of JV Fitness;[2] it was the second largest gym operator in Hong Kong with nine locations.[3]

The first California Fitness club opened in 1996 in Wellington Street, Hong Kong (relocated to Queen's Road Central[4] in 2011). Former club entrance in 2005.
California Fitness Tsim Sha Tsui club
  1. ^ "24 Hour Fitness Sells Asia-based California Fitness, Focus on U.S. Operations". Business Wire. 6 August 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  2. ^ "California Fitness staff 'told Hong Kong man he looked like a frog' after he intervened in acts of racial discrimination towards friend". South China Morning Post. 9 May 2016.
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  4. ^ "Central club". California Fitness. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.