My Business Podcast

While a business model may work well overseas, there’s no telling how well it will work here in Australia. Justin McDonell, co-founder of Anytime Fitness Australia, faced this concern in 2008. Since then, Anytime Fitness Australia has grown to 450 locations nationally, with ambitious plans for ongoing growth. “The franchise relationship, it’s like a marriage. There’s good and bad times, but generally, it should be good,” says Justin. Justin shares how he launched and grew the Anytime Fitness franchise in Australia and helped adapt the 24-hour gym concept to the local market, his plans to diversify the business using multiple sub-brands, and how the prominent business has achieved such rapid expansion in a highly competitive industry. Find out all this and more on this episode of the My Business Podcast! http://www.mybusiness.com.au