ElevateOS Acquires RightFit Personal Training

Echelon Fitness Acquires FORTË and Rebrands It as ELEVATE by Echelon

July 21, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Echelon Fitness has acquired FORTË, a B2B fitness streaming SaaS platform, and will relaunch the business as "ELEVATE by Echelon" to expand its enterprise and commercial fitness offerings. The acquisition brings FORTË's live and on‑demand streaming technology, proprietary hardware, and a global customer footprint (457,000 users across 39 countries) into Echelon's portfolio to accelerate capability and market expansion in SaaS and commercial fitness.

TSG Consumer Partners to Acquire EōS Fitness

May 12, 2025

Healthcare Services

TSG Consumer Partners has signed a definitive agreement to acquire EōS Fitness, an operator of High Value. Low Price. (HVLP) gyms in the United States. The deal will keep EōS CEO Rich Drengberg and its tenured leadership team in place, with a focus on expanding the gym footprint and accelerating innovation.

LifeFit Group Acquires FIT/One Group

March 12, 2025

Healthcare Services

LifeFit Group has agreed to acquire FIT/One Group, adding 45 studios (33 in Germany and 12 in Austria) and roughly 220,000 members to its portfolio. The deal — between two companies within Waterland's portfolio — is an add-on consolidation to strengthen LifeFit's position in the DACH region and support international expansion into Austria; completion is subject to regulatory approvals and financing.

EoS Fitness Acquires Texans Fit Gym Chain

April 7, 2023

Healthcare Services

EoS Fitness has acquired Texans Fit, a Houston-based five-gym chain founded by the Houston Texans and M6 Football, expanding EoS’s footprint to 75 open gyms nationwide. The deal brings five new EoS locations to the Houston area, preserves approximately 120 gym-level jobs with the option to remain employed by EoS, and accelerates the company’s Texas expansion plans.

Xponential Fitness Acquires Body Fit Training for $44M

October 13, 2021

Healthcare Services

Xponential Fitness, Inc. acquired Australia-based fitness franchisor Body Fit Training (BFT) for $44 million in a mix of cash and debt. Xponential acquired BFT's intellectual property, will support nearly 130 open franchised studios (and ~150 obligated to open) across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore while expanding the brand into the United States and Canada; BFT's co-CEOs will remain as master franchisors in APAC.

OT Growth Partners Acquires FIT Enterprise (Orangetheory Fitness Iowa Area Developer)

January 24, 2019

Restaurants & Hospitality

OT Growth Partners, a portfolio company of Kian Capital, has acquired FIT Enterprise, the Orangetheory Fitness area developer for Iowa. The deal brings seven operating studios (with additional studios under development) into OT Growth Partners' platform and expands its footprint in the Midwest; terms were not disclosed.