Summary
With New Year's resolutions in full swing, Will Bain hears from The Gym Group CEO about the surge in memberships and how his company is meeting the demand.
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| 0:05.2 | My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland. |
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| 0:44.1 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello, morning, a very happy New Year and welcome back to Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:51.1 | New Year, New Year, New You. |
| 0:52.6 | We chat to the boss of the gym group, |
| 0:54.6 | who's expecting strong demand for fitness centres like theirs in 2025. That's despite those |
| 0:59.9 | continuing cost of living pressures. Also on the programme today, another blow for the London Stock |
| 1:04.5 | Exchange is an electric battery firm's plans to quit. We hear from one of the bosses of DG |
| 1:09.9 | innovate as to why, And we've got some |
| 1:12.2 | stark, perhaps unsurprising figures out this morning from the world of retail. |
| 1:17.4 | Wake up to Money with Will Bain. Yeah, morning. Welcome back to Wake Up to Money, the very first |
| 1:23.2 | live one of 2025. It's Thursday, the 2nd of January, just gone 5 o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:29.0 | We'll be able to be with you as we kick off another year here on the program. Great, as always, |
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