Business
Yum Brands is offering customers at its chains four-week memberships to Bally fitness clubs.
Dec. 30, 2004
Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. is preparing a possible “poison pill” takeover defense because it says two of its largest shareholders may be acting in collusion.
Dec. 28, 2005
Stock Exchange lets readers listen in as Times staff writers James Peltz and Michael Hiltzik debate the merits of individual stocks.
Dec. 14, 1999
Nationwide gym operator Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. is whipping its business into better shape, but that’s nothing compared with its stock’s calisthenics this year.
Sept. 19, 1998
Six Flags Magic Mountain near Valencia is being sold, along with the rest of the Six Flags amusement park chain, to a private investment firm headed by former Treasury Secretary William E.
April 22, 1987
Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp., North America’s biggest operator of health clubs, agreed to buy Crunch Fitness for about $90 million in stock and cash to increase its appeal to young, urban clients.
Oct. 16, 2001
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Dec. 21, 1998
Two activist hedge funds succeeded Thursday in electing three candidates to the board of Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. but failed in a bid to remove Paul Toback as chairman and chief executive, the company said after its annual meeting.
Jan. 27, 2006
Shares of Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. plunged 62% after the struggling fitness center operator said it might seek U.S.
March 17, 2007
When Rachel Hobbs, a West Los Angeles resident, joined Bally Total Fitness last April, she says, she made it clear she wanted only a one-year contract.
Nov. 23, 2000