Private company
Les Mills International
Logo: lesmills.com3
Athlete and businessman from New-Zealand
Phillip Mills (born 13 February 1955) is a New Zealand former track and field athlete and businessman. He is the founder and executive director of Les Mills International and a co-founder of Pure Advantage, a green business lobby group.2 It is headquartered in Auckland.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- HeadquartersAuckland1
- Websitewww.lesmills.com
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Phillip Mills (born 13 February 1955) is a New Zealand former track and field athlete and businessman. He is the founder and executive director of Les Mills International and a co-founder of Pure Advantage, a green business lobby group.2
Leadership
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Products and brands
After returning to New Zealand in 1979, Mills took an increasing role in the Les Mills fitness club business founded by his parents, Les and Colleen Mills, in 1968. The Les Mills business launched onto the stock market in 1984 and was taken over by an investment company in 1987. After the share market crash that year, Mills bought the business back.
In the early 1980s, Mills developed an exercise-to-music choreographed set of exercises and commercialised them based on licensing instructors to lead classes.
As of March 2015, there were 18 different programs distributed across 100 countries and by 2023, the workouts were being delivered to 21,000 gyms and clubs across the world. Phillip Mills has also developed a group fitness management system for maximising the commercial benefits of the Les Mills programs.
Mills’ views on fitness industry trends and the secrets of the most successful fitness facilities are regularly shared across the fitness industry.
From Wikipedia’s article on Les Mills International, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
Timeline
- 1968Founded Founded1
Links
- Websitewww.lesmills.com1
- X (Twitter)x.com/LesMills1
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/lesmillsus1
- Instagramwww.instagram.com/lesmills1
- YouTubewww.youtube.com/channel/UChJHUmT_EREEs4WV6jpmnBw1
- LinkedInwww.linkedin.com/company/les-mills-international1
- WikipediaLes Mills International
- WikidataQ2758951
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- 2WikipediaLes Mills International on Wikipedia
- 3Company websiteLes Mills International logo
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