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Gladstone bags Aussie health club deal

12 November 2008 11:18:00

Management systems provider Gladstone has won a contract to supply its Plus2 membership relationship management software to Virgin Active's first health club in Australia.

Virgin's foray into the Australian health club business starts in Sydney and is expected to open next month. A second club will open in Melbourne during the first quarter of 2009.

"Through our sales and marketing drives and strong international networks we are perfectly placed to reinforce our market-leading position in health and leisure software solutions space and introducing our future products to territories beyond the UK, Ireland and Australia," said Gladstone's chairman and chief executive Said Ziai.

Mark Blackman, Virgin Active Australia's CEO and General Manager, said: "Gladstone's MRM software is ideally suited to the needs of our first Australian facility."

Gladstone has stepped up the newsflow in the past week as it looks to fight off a hostile bid from Canada's Constellation Software worth £13.54m, or 25p a share in cash.

The UK firm says Constellation's offer undervalues the company and its future growth potential.

It has urged shareholders to take no action and not to sign any form of acceptance that constellation or its advisors send.

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