Bally Total Fitness Holding Corporation, 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.