General News

Shanghai – October 06, 2026 -- YR Fitness has supplied commercial-grade equipment to 34,950 gyms across more than 110 countries since 1997, marking nearly three decades of operation in the commercial fitness-equipment segment.

YR Fitness equipment underpins multi-location chains from China to Australia

In China, Lefit has expanded to over 2,300 locations across 60 cities, operating a 24-hour access model with monthly memberships and digital management tools. In Japan, chocoZAP runs more than 2,000 sites under a convenience-fitness format. Sri Lanka's Power World Fitness Centres, active for over 30 years, now operates more than 20 locations, while Australia's Peak Fitness runs three 24/7 Gym & Recovery Centres in Melbourne combining training and recovery facilities.

Portland – October 06, 2026 -- Headlands Research - Summit Portland is marking 50 years of operation in 2026, having contributed clinical research to every FDA-approved class of Alzheimer's disease medication brought to market since 1993. The site, founded in 1976, has conducted more than 500 clinical trials in partnership with pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs).

Los Angeles – – October 06, 2026 -- Vision To Learn has provided 300,000 children in California with free glasses, a milestone marked today at 24th Street Elementary School alongside the launch of a new initiative to outfit every child in Los Angeles Unified's Community Schools.

Nonprofit marks 300,000-glasses milestone with LA Unified officials

Founder Austin Beutner, California Teachers Association President David Goldberg, and LA Unified Superintendent Andrés E. Chait joined the event. Vision To Learn operates mobile vision clinics staffed by licensed eye care professionals, delivering screenings, exams and glasses directly at schools in low-income communities at no cost to families.

Houston – October 06, 2026 -- Logisnext Americas hosted a wish-reveal event on Sept. 30 at its newly built Customer Experience Center in Houston, surprising six-year-old Elena, who lives with leukemia, with news that her family vacation wish will be granted this fall.

Logisnext Americas extends second-year sponsorship of Make-A-Wish Texas Gulf Coast and Louisiana

The material handling and automation manufacturer is continuing as a corporate sponsor of the regional Make-A-Wish chapter for a second consecutive year, funding wish experiences for children in the communities where its employees work.

Fort Myers – October 06, 2026 -- Eightpoint Interactive, Inc. has secured the 32nd spot on the 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Advertising & Marketing List, marking its second appearance on the ranking. The Fort Myers, Florida-based unit of global technology group Eightpoint has now held Great Place To Work Certification for three consecutive years, spanning 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Scottsdale, Ariz. – October 06, 2026 -- Kaelin Poulin, the entrepreneur who grew LadyBoss into a company serving more than 700,000 women and ranking No. 4 on the 2019 Inc. 5000, has rejoined the health and fitness industry as Head of Supra Woman, the women's division of Supra Human.

Poulin built LadyBoss into the No. 1 B2C company in America before stepping away

Alongside her husband, Brandon, Poulin co-built LadyBoss into a business that reached No. 4 on the 2019 Inc. 5000 and ranked No. 1 among B2C companies in the United States that year. After selling the company, she left the industry to homeschool her children.

New Orleans – October 06, 2026 -- A 15,000-ton shipment of primary aluminum arrived at the Port of Avondale in New Orleans, marking the first delivery of Venezuelan aluminum to the United States in nearly eight years. Heeney Capital, a U.S. private investment firm focused on critical minerals and industrial supply chains, organized the shipment and hosted U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana), and Representative Julia Letlow (R-Louisiana) to mark the arrival on Monday, October 06, 2026.

Wilmington, N.C. – October 05, 2026 -- 101 Mobility has secured rank No. 296 on the 2026 Franchise Times Top 400, marking its second consecutive year on the list of largest U.S.-based franchise systems ranked by global systemwide sales.

101 Mobility grows to over 150 locations nationwide

The home accessibility and mobility franchise now operates more than 150 U.S. locations, with owners providing stairlifts, wheelchair ramps, patient lifts, bathroom safety equipment, and elevators through sales, rentals, installation, and service.

Franchise Times ranking draws on five-month sales research

The Franchise Times Top 400 ranking results from an annual five-month research and reporting process that the publication positions as the most credible and objective franchise sales ranking available.

TOCCOA – October 05, 2026 -- Connor Wallace, a senior at Stephens County High School working at ASI Southeast, has been named Georgia's 2026 Work-Based Learning Student of the Year, an award he received September 24 at the Governor's Workforce Summit in Atlanta from Governor Brian Kemp. The recognition caps a nine-year partnership between the commercial manufacturer and Stephens County Schools that now supplies roughly 10 percent of ASI's Georgia workforce.

Georgia's work-based learning pipeline enrolled 32,518 students across 24,582 employers in the latest school year

ASI Southeast, which makes commercial toilet partitions and lockers for ASI Global Partitions and ASI Storage at its Toccoa plant roughly 90 miles northeast of Atlanta, built its own program as a direct response to a tight skilled-labor market in northeast Georgia.

Florham Park, N.J. – October 05, 2026 -- Reworld employees collected 84 bags of garbage during a September cleanup of Newark, New Jersey streets, earning the company first place and the Gold Broom Award at the city's Slam Dunk the Junk community event.

Reworld deploys employees across six U.S. regions for World Cleanup Day

The waste management company organized volunteer efforts in Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania in September to mark World Cleanup Day. In Derwood and Dickerson, Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia, staff joined the Friends of the Mount Vernon Trail to clear trash and invasive vegetation at Gravelly Point. Rahway, New Jersey employees worked at Rahway Riverfront Park, while the Newark team cleared litter from the facility's access road in addition to its award-winning citywide effort.