Industry Partners

The companies that supported EHFA were listed by the level of support they had committed to, and each was recorded with the role it played in the sector: employer, meaning an operator of clubs; supplier, meaning a manufacturer or service provider to them; or training provider. The names below are as the association published them.

The vanguard level included one national association, recorded at that level as a national body rather than as a company: the Fitness Industry Association (FIA) of the United Kingdom.

• Fitness First Plc / Employer
• Johnson Health Technology Co. Ltd / Supplier
• Life Fitness / Supplier
• Power Plate International Ltd / Supplier
• SATS Holding AG / Employer
• Technogym S.p.A / Supplier
• Virgin Active / Employer

• Curves International / Employer
• Lifetime Fitness / Supplier

• Cybex International / Supplier
• HealthCity / Employer
• Les Mills International / Supplier
• Pellikaan Construction BV / Supplier

• Aspria Holdings BV / Employer
• Achmea Health / Employer
• Optisport / Employer
• Precor / Supplier
• Reebok EMEA / Supplier
• SportCity Holding NL / Employer

• David Lloyd Leisure Ltd / Employer
• Premium Certification Solutions Ltd / Supplier
• TWID / Supplier

• High Five Health Promotion / Intenz / Employer
• Human Kinetics / Supplier
• Maxinutrition / Supplier
• Milon / Training Provider
• Octane Fitness / Supplier
• VNU Exhibitions Europe BV / Supplier
• Yango / Supplier

The levels described what each company had committed to the association, and the list was published so that the sector could see who was paying for the work. The larger commitments were what allowed the association to run work that subscriptions alone would not have funded, and they brought the suppliers into the same forum as the operators.

The list also shows what the sector was made of. It contains employer groups running clubs in several countries, equipment manufacturers whose products stood in those clubs, a construction company that built fitness premises, a supplier of group exercise programmes, and one training provider. The standards had to serve all of them at once: an employer needs a qualification it can trust when it recruits, a supplier needs the training it delivers on its own equipment to be recognised in the same terms, and a provider needs a syllabus it can teach and assess.

The association's supporter page carried a link across to its national association partners, and the two lists belong together: the companies supplied and operated the sector, and the national bodies represented it in each market. That roster is on the association partners page, the member categories are under national associations and membership, and what the partner organisations said about the association is collected under partners about EHFA. The supporter structure in the round is described on the partners page.