Health

In Shape Health Club Corporate Office

Paul Rothbard founded In-Shape Health Clubs in 1981. The company operates a chain of gymnasiums, mainly in California.

The company offers the usual workout equipment, most locations have swimming pools and private instructors.

The company had financial problems before the Covid pandemic of 2020-2022. Despite having outdoor facilities, many users opted to stay home or find other resources for exercise.

In-Shape filed for bankruptcy at the end of 2020. Former CEO and son of founder Morton Rothbard, Paul Rothbard, purchased half of the company in early 2021, along with help from Aquiline Capital Partners.

In January 2023, Perpetual Capital Partners, who also owns California Family Fitness, acquired In-Shape for an undisclosed amount.

Under the merger agreement, both fitness clubs will retain their own names.

In Shape maintains a corporate office in Stockton, California.

MedHaul Corporate Office

Founder Erica Hemphill, a diabetic and double amputee, was frustrated by her inability to get to medical appointments due to a lack of proper transportation.

MedHaul was founded in 2017. A Certified B Company, MedHaul enables healthcare providers to find and schedule transportation to care destinations for patients who have special in-transit support needs, as well as those who can travel independently.

Individuals don’t call for rides, but rather, the patient’s healthcare provider will book the appointment. While the company’s current outreach is for Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, northern Mississippi, and eastern Arkansas, they hope to expand to other areas of Tennessee and perhaps even other states.

For many people, including the elderly and low-income patients, MedHaul has been extremely helpful.

In the first two years of operation, MedHaul assisted with 9,000 rides.

Hemphill is among some of the biggest tech innovators when it comes to improving the lives of others in the community.

MedHaul maintains a corporate office in Memphis, Tennessee.

Lloyds Pharmacy Online Corporate Office

Allen Lloyd purchased his first pharmacy in 1973 in Polesworth, Warwickshire, England, UK. The pharmacy grew rapidly; today, there are 1,351 locations around the UK.

Lloyds Pharmacy acquired Sainsbury Pharmacies in 2015 for an estimated $125 million. All Sainsbury Pharmacy locations have since been rebranded as Lloyds Pharmacies.

In 2019, Lloyds acquired Echo, an online prescription fulfillment center located in the UK. The price of the sale was not disclosed.

As Covid cases began to rise again, Lloyds Pharmacies once again began offering in-home test kits.

In August 2022, Lloyd Pharmacies temporarily stopped automatic refills due to a staffing shortage.

The company has partnered with Deliveroo for home delivery services at more than 150 locations.

Lloyds Pharmacy maintains a head office in London, UK.

Puritan’s Pride Vitamins Corporate Office

In 1971, Authur Rudolph began a mail order company selling vitamins and nutritional supplements. The name of the company originally was Nature’s Bounty.

In 2010, the Carlyle Group purchased the company for $3.8 billion and took the company private.

In 2021, the company was sold to business giant Nestle for $5.75 billion.

The Bountiful Company sells products under a wide range of names including Puritan’s Pride, American Health, Pure Protein, Osteo Bi-Flex, Nature’s Bounty, Sundown Naturals, and others.

In 2022, the company joined others in creating personalized vitamin packs via a subscription service.

The vitamin, minerals, and dietary supplement market is expected to grow at about 6 percent each year starting in 2023.

In March 2022, Forbes listed the company as one of the 10 Best Vitamin brands according to nutritionists.

Puritan’s Pride maintains a corporate office in Oakdale, New York.

Gravity Diagnostics Corporate Office

When Tony Remington and Julie Brazil opened Gravity Diagnostics, this pharmacogenetics company mainly focused on toxicology testing.

The pandemic of 2020 brought this company to the forefront, allowing them to be the go-to lab not just for Kentucky, but many other states as well. The unprecedented demand for Covid-19 testing became a boom and the boom resulted in 2,767% revenue growth from 2018 to 2020.

It’s estimated that the company processed 2.4 million Covid tests in a short two-year period.

In 2021, an employee of the company told his boss that he did NOT want a birthday celebration. He explained that he suffered from anxiety and couldn’t deal with being the center of attention. His request was not taken seriously and a party was held for his birthday. The employee had an acute anxiety attack and spent most of the day locked in the bathroom. He was fired.

The employee sued and won $450,000. Gravity Diagnostics says that it plans to appeal the decision.

The company has a second testing location in Cincinnati, Ohio, which was named the Fastest Growing Company in Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier for the second year in a row in 2022.

Gravity Diagnostics maintains a corporate office in Covington, Kentucky.