{"id":777259,"date":"2026-07-22T05:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777259\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:27:36","slug":"japans-chocozap-gym-chain-bulks-up-in-hong-kong-to-lift-asian-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777259\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s chocoZAP gym chain bulks up in Hong Kong to lift Asian growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/companies\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">No-frills operation aims for 150 overseas locations by March 2027<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260710 chocozap 1\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">ChocoZAP has 23 gyms in Hong Kong and aims to expand its network in the city to 100 by the end of this year. (Photo by Anne Chan)<\/p>\n<p>ANNE CHAN and KENSAKU IHARA<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; Japanese fitness club operator Rizap Group is expanding its budget gym business in Hong Kong as it strives to reinforce its regional presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies No-frills operation aims for 150 overseas locations by March 2027 ChocoZAP has 23 gyms in Hong Kong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[54010,331356,53813,331355,337,15207,1100,97,69413,73821,309380,196402],"class_list":["post-777259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-asian","tag-bulks","tag-chain","tag-chocozap","tag-fitness","tag-growth","tag-gym","tag-health","tag-hong","tag-japans","tag-kong","tag-lift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}