Who owns Bio Ritmo?
Bio Ritmo is owned by Smartfit (Brazil, B3: SMFT3).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Smartfit Escola de Ginástica e Dança S.A. — Demonstrações Financeiras Padronizadas 31/12/2025, 11 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Smartfit Escola de Ginástica e Dança S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇧🇷 Brazil, São Paulo
- Origin
- 🇧🇷 Brazil, São Paulo
- Founded
- 1996
- Category
- Sport & fitness › Fitness › Gyms & fitness brands
- Parent ticker
- B3: SMFT3
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Bio Ritmo
Bio Ritmo is the premium gym brand of the Smart Fit group, and the brand under which the company opened its first gym in 1996. It had 34 clubs at the end of 2025. Its first club outside Brazil opened in Panama in 2024, and in 2025 it added Chile and Peru. The single O2 gym in Chile was converted to Bio Ritmo that year. Its top Infinity membership, priced at R$1,800 to R$2,000 a month, includes a concierge and personal-training sessions. The company began repositioning the brand and redesigning its clubs in 2025.
Ownership timeline of Bio Ritmo
Where Bio Ritmo sits in Smartfit
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Smartfit
Smartfit controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in sport & fitness.
Also in sport & fitness
- Nation CT (2024)
- Queima Diária
- Smart Fit (2009)
- TotalPass (2016)
- Velocity
Other brands in gyms & fitness brands, and who owns them
Smartfit has more brands in gyms & fitness brands on Brandtree than any other owner: 6 of 11.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Club Lime | Viva Leisure | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| GROUNDUP | Viva Leisure | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Hiit Republic | Viva Leisure | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Plus Fitness | Viva Leisure | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Zoo Fit | Viva Leisure | 🇦🇺 Australia |
About the owner: Smartfit
Smartfit is a publicly listed company headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 1996. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as B3: SMFT3.
Smartfit Escola de Ginástica e Dança is the São Paulo company behind the Smart Fit chain of low-price gyms and the premium Bio Ritmo clubs. It was founded in 1996, when the first Bio Ritmo gym opened, and its shares have traded on B3 as SMFT3 since 14 July 2021. At the end of 2025 it had 2,084 gyms in 16 countries, 1,683 of them company-owned and 401 franchised, and 5.2 million gym members, and its 2025 net revenue was R$7.2 billion. It also runs the TotalPass corporate fitness benefit, a group of studio brands including Velocity, and the Queima Diária online workout service. By 30 June 2026 the network had grown to 2,170 gyms.
🇧🇷 Bio Ritmo and other Brazilian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 177 brands that began in Brazil. 32 of them (18%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Bio Ritmo is not one of them.
- Adria — M. Dias Branco 🇧🇷
- Aena Brasil — Aena 🇪🇸
- Alexandre Birman — Azzas 2154 🇧🇷
- Arteris — Abertis 🇪🇸
- Ashua Curve & Plus Size — Lojas Renner 🇧🇷
- Assaí Atacadista — Assaí 🇧🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Bio Ritmo?
The parent company of Bio Ritmo is Smartfit, a publicly listed company headquartered in Brazil.
Is Bio Ritmo Brazilian?
Yes. Bio Ritmo originated in Brazil in 1996 and its owner, Smartfit, is also headquartered in Brazil.
Is Bio Ritmo still owned by Smartfit?
Yes. As of 22 October 2026, Bio Ritmo is still owned by Smartfit. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Smartfit Escola de Ginástica e Dança S.A. — Demonstrações Financeiras Padronizadas 31/12/2025 — Smartfit Escola de Ginástica e Dança S.A., Stock exchange filing, published 11 March 2026; retrieved 22 October 2026.
- [2] Smartfit Escola de Ginástica e Dança S.A. — Formulário de Referência 2026 — Smartfit Escola de Ginástica e Dança S.A., Stock exchange filing, published 22 September 2026; retrieved 22 October 2026.
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