company overview
Klink Fitness
Welcome to the Business Owners Magazine quick interview – conducted in a very socially distanced fashion! Here we try and get an insight into a company leader and their industry to find out what makes them tick and how their challenges and lessons could help you in your business. - Name
Graeme McCoy
- Company
Klink Fitness
- Position
Founder
- Industry
Fitness
What does your company do? Klink specialises in the Manufacture of premium modular dumbbells. We have just recently launched our patent pending Fitlok Dumbbells in January of this year. Tell us a bit about the background of the founders of the company? I (Graeme) am the co-founder and managing director of Springfort Precision Engineering along with my brother-in-law. We started this business in 2018 and we have been growing steadily and have enjoyed taking on the challenge of growing a business. Nikita is a staff nurse who specialised in Pancreatic and Liver services from 2009, and now works for Springfort (officially since October 2020) to assist in the running of the family business. Nikita was always involved in the business, but it has been great to have a role for her officially. How did the idea for the product come about? The idea for Klink Fitness came about during
the Covid19 pandemic. With a lot of fitness clubs and gyms closing during the first lockdown, myself and my wife hired fitness equipment from our local gym. Unfortunately, we felt frustrated with the amount of equipment lying around. During the summer months we both enjoy getting outdoors for a workout but having to move 4 or 5 sets of dumbbells was always a chore. My wife felt it would be fun to design a new concept of adjustable dumbbell. We undertook some market research and saw there was only a small variety of adjustable dumbbells on the market, with all them being very similar and for us, not that pleasing to the eye. We thought it was a great opportunity to create something compact, modern and innovative that could be stored away very easily in the home. We believe we have achieved this as our dumbbell kit can easily be stored away in a neat transportable case to allow for workouts outdoors, meeting up at fitness
