Jones vs. Weider vs. Atlas vs. York vs. LaLanne
Senator Larry Gaye
The York barbell guy?
Charles Atlas?
Jack LaLanne?
Arthur Jones?
Joe Weider?
Arthur Jones must have made a ton of dough on the Nautilus machines. Jack
LaLanne made tons of money on his juicers, TV shows of the 1950s/60s, and
other crap he sold; Joe Weider has made millions off the IFBB magazines,
supplements, and weight sets. York was the old-time king of free weights,
they must have made a lot of money back in the day. Who is the champion of
fitness finance?
Curt
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> The York barbell guy?
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> Charles Atlas?
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> Jack LaLanne?
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> Arthur Jones?
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> Joe Weider?
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> Arthur Jones must have made a ton of dough on the Nautilus machines.
Well, there's always Wiki:
"The Nautilus machines and the company he formed to sell them made him
a multimillionaire and landed him on the Forbes list of the 400
richest people At one point, financial analysts estimated that
Nautilus was grossing $300 million annually. He sold Nautilus Inc. in
1986 for $23 million."
> Jack LaLanne made tons of money on his juicers, TV shows <snip>
Bally's much?
> Joe Weider has made millions off the IFBB magazines, supplements, and
> weight sets.
I wouldn't be at all surprised. Wiki offers that "Weider began his
publishing empire with $7 at age 17," and Googling further indicates
that American Media Inc. (AMI) and Evercore Partners acquired Weider
Publications Inc., publisher of Shape, Men's Fitness and other
magazines, in a $350 million deal.
http://www.answers.com/topic/weider-nutrition-international-inc-1?cat=biz-fin
aka http://tinyurl.com/384mds might also be of interest to you.
> York was the old-time king of free weights,
> they must have made a lot of money back in the day.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/recalls04/2006/york_weight_bars.html
aka http://tinyurl.com/2wog22
Ouch! But the company's still in operation and not far from where I
live. You want a Olympic set for $99?
> Who is the champion of fitness finance?
Barney Fife.
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Senator Larry Gaye
Weider
> Publications Inc., publisher of Shape, Men's Fitness and other magazines,
in a $350 million deal.
>
Jack LaLanne does not own Bally's. I thought that was owned by the Mafia.
Anyhow, it seems like Joltin Joe Weider is the richest guy in fitness. I
imagine he may have even more money than Arnold??
Curt
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> Jack LaLanne does not own Bally's.
I believe the phrase is "NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!"
At one time LaLanne had about 200 Jack La Lanne health spas. He
eventually licensed all his gyms to the Bally company. Unrelated to
finance, but still cool trivia: During a Larry King interview LaLanne
commented, "I invented a lot of the equipment you have in the gyms
today: the first weight selector, and a lot of the - the leg extension
machines, some of the pulley things. And I invented those things way
back there in the '30s, because there was nothing around."
[...]
> Anyhow, it seems like Joltin Joe Weider is the richest guy in fitness.
I don't think so.
http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml
> I imagine he may have even more money than Arnold??
You've got some imagination there.
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Curt
Bud Bungol
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Nike is not a fitness or bodybuilding personality. You seem to have your
fingers on the pulse of Google, so right now who is the richest person who
is or was involved in fitness as a bodybuilder or professional athlete?? Joe
Weider still counts because he claims he won Mr. Pasadena back in 1924.
Curt
> "Curt" <> I don't think so.http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml
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> Nike is not a fitness or bodybuilding personality.
No, but Philip H. Knight is.
> You seem to have your fingers on the pulse of Google,
You have a problem with information?
> so right now who is the richest person who is or was involved in fitness as
> a bodybuilder or professional athlete??
I bet you're going to tell me. (And, yeah, I have peripheral vision.)
> Joe Weider still counts because he claims he won Mr. Pasadena back in
> 1924.
Cool.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/YourPhysique.jpg aka
http://tinyurl.com/37cg62
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Curt