Today we announced the acquisition of PR Direct - a French based distributor of royalty free photos. PR Direct is a small, but powerful distributor with a long history in France. One terrific benefit for Jupitermedia is that many of our wholly owned brands have robust sales in France through the PR Direct sales operation. Also several months ago we purchased Goodshoot - a French company that produces its own royalty free photos. Thus the marriage of our other brands, Goodshoot and a pure distribution business makes for a solid foundation to build out our French operations.

I am writing this post from Sydney, Australia. Which brings me to another one of our foreign operations. Our primary business here is distribution, but we are starting to create wholly owned royalty free Australian-oriented imagery. We have a small, but once again thriving distribution business in Sydney. We have just added several sales people and are continuing to add staff over the next few weeks.

Look for our JupiterImages division to continue to gain ground outside the United States through organic and acquisition growth.