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Product launches and "networked fitness" drove fourth quarter and 2017 year-end growth for Precor.

Fitbit's purchase of Twine Health, a health platform founded in 2013, will allow the company to expand its health coaching offerings in other areas to its 25 million users.

MINDBODY CEO Rick Stollmeyer called 2017 the company's most successful year ever, on the heels of announcing the company had acquired Atlanta-based tracking company FitMetrix.

Technogym's new technological initiatives in addition to sales growth in Latin America (26 percent) and North America (13 percent) led to a successful year for the Italian-based equipment manufacturer.

The Life Fitness Division of Brunswick Corp., which includes Life Fitness, reported a 5 percent increase in its 2017 earnings and a 5 percent increase in fourth quarter 2017 earnings.

In a Jan. 30 letter, Owl Creek managing partner Jeffrey Altman suggested Brunswick's board of directors take "immediate" action to separate its Life Fitness Division. Owl Creek currently owns 2.8 percent of Brunswick's outstanding common equity.

Club Automation's full staff, including CEO Jeff VanDixhorn, has been retained and will continue to operate out of the brand's still-growing Chicago office.

Life Time Athletic at Sky will be the first health club to offer GymKit integration on Technogym products, and Equinox clubs opening in 2018 will be the first to offer it on Life Fitness products, according to the two vendors.

The lawsuit settlement by Fitbit and Jawbone comes more than a year after the United States International Trade Commission terminated its investigation into whether Fitbit Inc. and its manufacturer, Flextronics International Ltd., misappropriated...