BFTH — Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp (fka BFTH)

[goldencalf]

Should be interesting today, considering they claim to be a private company, but are still having to show up in BK court.

Thursday , December 27, 2007 09:48ET

Dec 27, 2007 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today that these select companies have been on the NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE naked short threshold list for 13 consecutive trading days: Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. (OTC: BFTH).

Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. (OTC: BFTH) through its subsidiaries, operates fitness centers in North America. The company's fitness centers offer personal training, specialty exercise programs, fitness apparel, drinks, nutritional products, and nutrition and weight management program. Its nutritional products include protein powders, energy drinks, energy bars, snack bars, high protein bars, weight loss products, multivitamins, and meal replacement powdered drink mixes. The company, through its 350 retail locations, sells nutrition supplements, basic workout apparel, packaged drinks, and other fitness-related convenience products. As of December 31, 2006, it operated approximately 375 fitness centers located in the United States and Canada. Bally Total Fitness, through franchisee and joint venture agreements, operated 35 clubs in the United States, Asia, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of October 1, 2007, Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. was taken private. With 41.22 million shares outstanding and 954,900 shares declared short as of November 2007, the failure to deliver in shares of BFTH has not been resolved and a buy-in is imminent.

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