Getty Images Inc. The Group's principal activity is to provide e-commerce visual content and related products and services to businesses worldwide. It provides a variety of visual content products including creative imagery (both still and moving images), news and sports photography, archival imagery, illustrations and related products and services. The Group provides imagery products through its creative photography collections (The Image Bank, Photodisc, Photographer's Choice, Stone and Taxi), Getty Images Film, Getty Images Editorial and Hulton or Archive. The products and services are provided through the website, CD-ROMs, catalogs and international distribution network of offices in approximately 20 cities, and through agents and distributors in approximately 55 countries. The Group's customers include advertising and design agencies, publishing and media companies and corporate communications departments. During the year 2003, the Group acquired ImageDirect, Inc.