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ANYTIME FITNESS FRANCHISE DISCLOSURE DOCUMENT

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We may negotiate preferred vendor contracts with approved vendors. The preferred vendor contracts will<br />

usually provide favorable pricing to our franchisees and may provide payments to us based on the<br />

quantity and cost of products and services purchased. A list of current preferred vendor contracts will be<br />

available to you from us at any time. Generally, we do not require you to purchase goods or services<br />

from our preferred vendors. However, in order to keep the integrity ofthe reciprocity system that is<br />

integral to the Anytime Fitness system and the benefits we provide to our members, we do require you to<br />

obtain all billing and payment processing services from a preferred vendor. We currently designate one<br />

preferred vendor for these services. The preferred vendor is not an affiliate of ours, but we may receive<br />

payments from that vendor if the total dollar volume of processing that vendor does for all our franchisees<br />

exceeds certain aggregate negotiated levels.<br />

If you want to purchase other items for your Anytime Fitness center that we have not previously<br />

approved, or from suppliers that we have not approved, you must notify us in writing. If we request, you<br />

must submit samples and other information we require for testing or to otherwise determine whether the<br />

product, material or supply, or the proposed supplier, meets our specifications and quality standards. If<br />

you seek approval of a new supplier (or if the supplier applies directly to us for approval), we will require<br />

the supplier pay us a nonrefundable fee of $250 before we will consider approving their application. This<br />

fee is intended to defer our cost of reviewing the supplier. (We do not require you to pay any fee.) We<br />

may also require the supplier to sign a supplier agreement with us. In reviewing prospective suppliers, we<br />

consider how they and/or their products or services would enhance our brand and make it more attractive<br />

to members or franchisees, how they would improve the workout experience of a member, how they<br />

would increase revenue of a franchisee's club, and how they would increase the efficiency of a franchisee.<br />

(That criteria is posted on our website for potential vendors.) We also consider whether the product or<br />

service is already available through other sources, and whether the approval of another vendor would<br />

enhance competition, or dilute our ability to maximize our potential with our existing vendors. In<br />

addition, we consider demand from franchisees, the need for the vendor based on business trends, and the<br />

ability of the vendor to serve franchisees throughout the United States. We will generally notify you and<br />

the supplier of our approval or disapproval within 45-60 days of our receipt of all the information and<br />

samples we request. If we revoke approval of any supplier or any item offered by a supplier, we will send<br />

you written notice of our revocation of an approved supplier or item. We also may have some items for<br />

which there is only 1 approved supplier.<br />

We receive rebates from many of our preferred vendors. Those rebates generally range from 2% to 5% of<br />

the purchases you make from the vendor, but in the case of certain fitness equipment, they can increase to<br />

as much as 8% based on sales volume increases. There are also some vendors who pay us fixed rebates<br />

on supplies and services.<br />

During our fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, we did not receive any revenues from the direct sale of<br />

goods and services to our franchisees. During its fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, Apex<br />

Management Services, Inc. ("Apex") received $2,909,039 in revenues from the sale of goods or services<br />

to our franchisees (but it no longer sells goods or services to our franchisees), Provision received<br />

$10,223,389 in revenues from the sale of goods or services to our franchisees, and Vantage Point received<br />

$9,227 from the sale of goods to our franchisees. While FFI, FRE and Healthy Contributions did not<br />

receive any payments from franchisees for the purchase or lease of goods or services, FFI received<br />

$336,539 from lenders that was based on financing provided to our franchisees, FRE received $1,388,607<br />

in commissions from property owners who leased to our franchisees, and Healthy Contributions received<br />

$11,380 from health maintenance and other organizations based on the participation of club members in<br />

their programs.<br />

We do not provide benefits to any of our franchisees for purchasing goods and services from any<br />

particular suppliers. We also have not arranged any purchasing cooperatives among our franchisees.<br />

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