Fitness firm eye a million-pound expansion of HQ

Date27 November 2020
Published date27 November 2020
Publication titleCoventry Telegraph
Indigo Fitness moved to the former former Co-operative Society distribution centre on Whitacre Road Industrial Estate in 2018 and has gone from strength to strength.

After spending £700,000 on refurbishing the centre, the business is seeking planning approval to spend a further £1million on building two more units for warehousing and assembly work plus extra car-parking - and create more jobs.

The ambitious company is a supplier of strength and conditioning equipment to many elite sports teams including those in Premier League football, Premiership Rugby and national sporting bodies.

'It is great business and if these passed, it Indigo grow even Gary

They have also secured a contract with the Ministry of Defence and has supplied fitness equipment to the military across the UK, to international bases, and installed on board Royal Navy ships.

Nearer to home, Indigo Fitness has provided the sound-proof flooring for the gyms at the £36million Wave water park, pictured below, and the Alan Higgs Centre in Coventry.

Phil Littlewood, director at Indigo Fitness, explained that the expansion plans have been drawn up as they are running out of space despite having moved into their new home just over two years ago.

"We would like to develop on space in the yard to create a one-way system so that lorries don't have to turn around," he said.

"We need more space because we are already overflowing which is preventing us from being as efficient as we would like to be. We want to increase capacity so that when we get large orders, usually from the Ministry of

Defence, we have enough room to prepare them without interfering with the current space used for...

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