Sports Direct parent company Frasers Group has bought the gyms business of DW Sports out of administration for 37 million and will rebrand them as Everlast Fitness Club.
The company – full name Dave Whelan Sports – was declared insolvent in August and BDO appointed to manage its assets.
It had DW Fitness premises in Aberdeen, Coatbridge, Dundee and Inverness, some of which were acquired as part of Fitness First in 2016, but it is not clear whether its shops including Dunfermline, Kilmarnock and Kirkcaldy form part of the deal.
Frasers’ chain of Everlast-branded gyms includes venues at East Kilbride and Glasgow Fort and it also has clubs branded as Sports Direct Fitness.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct bought much of Whelan’s previous bu…
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