The group's principal activities are the provision of leisure and entertainment services to the film industry. Its leisure and entertainment activities include casinos and bingo clubs, hard rock cafes and global rights to the hard rock brand. The group also owns film processing and video and digital versatile disc duplication and distribution facilities. It operates primarily in the United Kingdom and North America, although it also has activities in continental Europe and other parts of the world. During 2003, the group acquired blue square ltd and distronics, an independent DVD and CD replicators in Europe and sold rank leisure machine services ltd and rank seasonal amusements ltd.