founded 1991 headquarters cramlington northumberland united kingdom key people anthony wallett gary middlemiss directors products sports equipment and apparel number of employees 75 website www.startfitness.co.uk start fitness is a sports retailer founded in 1991 and is based in cramlington northumberland . it operates through catalogues retail shops and its website . it has two 1 retail stores in durham and newcastle upon tyne . it is a subsidiary of w & m wholesale limited and part of the start group including start cycles and start football . 2 start fitness supports many local running events such as the 3 blaydon race in 2010 and more recently the north east harrier league . 4 contents 1 operations 2 sponsorship 3 awards 4 references 5 external links operations edit today start fitness has two business units based in newcastle and durham with plans on opening more stores nationally . sponsorship edit start fitness sponsor a number of local and national running events from the yearly 3 blaydon races to english schools athletic association events . awards edit the journal fastest 50 businesses for 2014 5 references edit start fitness opens two new sports stores in newcastle . journal . 2012 07 05 . retrieved 2014 08 09 . start fitness . start fitness . retrieved 2014 08 09 . a b start fitness to back famous blaydon race . chronicle live . 2010 01 07 . retrieved 2014 08 09 . soaring entry numbers for start fitness north east harrier league . chronicle live . 2014 03 27 . retrieved 2014 08 09 . fastest 50 businesses for 2014 revealed . journal . 2014 09 24 . retrieved 2015 02 10 . external links edit official website this article about a retailer in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title start fitness & oldid 725611580 categories clothing retailers of the united kingdomcompanies based in northumberlandonline retailers of the united kingdomcompanies based in newcastle upon tyneretail companies established in 1991online companiessporting goods retailers1991 establishments in englandunited kingdom retail company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 june 2016 at 19 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view