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02 Nov 2026, 11:43 AM	Vulcan Post	1.0	While S’pore gyms shut down, UFIT is making up to S$18M a year with just 4 outlets UFIT, a Singapore gym brand founded in 2009 by Dean Ahmad and James Forrester, reports S$15–18 million in annual revenue every year since 2023 with roughly 10% year-on-year growth across just four outlets; it opened its first physical site at 87 Amoy Street in August 2011 with about S$300,000 in seed funding and five staff. Its model sells appointment-based personal training plus in-house nutritionists and physiotherapists rather than plain membership access, and growth came mainly from word of mouth. The piece carries a sponsored tag and is a founder profile, not independent reporting. Why: There is no concrete takeaway here for developers, AI/ML learners, or SaaS founders — it is a sponsored profile of a Singapore fitness business with no product, policy, pricing, funding, or tooling change that alters what this audience builds or buys. The only portable idea is positioning against incumbents by selling measured outcomes instead of access, but the article gives no numbers on margins, churn, or unit economics to make that actionable. sponsored-content singapore business-profile not-dev-relevant

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02 Nov 2026, 11:43 AM

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While S’pore gyms shut down, UFIT is making up to S$18M a year with just 4 outlets

UFIT, a Singapore gym brand founded in 2009 by Dean Ahmad and James Forrester, reports S$15–18 million in annual revenue every year since 2023 with roughly 10% year-on-year growth across just four outlets; it opened its first physical site at 87 Amoy Street in August 2011 with about S$300,000 in seed funding and five staff. Its model sells appointment-based personal training plus in-house nutritionists and physiotherapists rather than plain membership access, and growth came mainly from word of mouth. The piece carries a sponsored tag and is a founder profile, not independent reporting.

Why: There is no concrete takeaway here for developers, AI/ML learners, or SaaS founders — it is a sponsored profile of a Singapore fitness business with no product, policy, pricing, funding, or tooling change that alters what this audience builds or buys. The only portable idea is positioning against incumbents by selling measured outcomes instead of access, but the article gives no numbers on margins, churn, or unit economics to make that actionable.