The Sanctuary Group plc is the one of the world's leading developers of intellectual property rights (IPR) in the fields of music, television and entertainment.Sanctuary Records operates from offices in the UK, US and Germany and has distribution arrangements worldwide. The recorded music catalogues now contain over 130 000 tracks, making Sanctuary the world's largest independent owner of music IPR, with labels ranging covering most genres of music from classical to country and reggae to rock.Sanctuary Artist Services comprises 3 main areas:Sanctuary Artist Management manages over 50 acts including Guns N' Roses, Wheatus, Iron Maiden, Pet Shop Boys, Elaine Paige, Adam F, Buddahead and Mull Historical Society as well as some of the world's top producers including Ethan Johns, Bob Ezrin, Chris Neil, Pat Leonard and John Alagia.Bravado, a major international visual rights licensing company was acquired in January 2002 and is focussed on the acquisition and exploitation of intellectual property rights within the entertainment industry. rights acquisition, product design, distribution, publishing and licensing. Current clients include Robbie Williams, Gorillaz, Celine Dion, Craig David, Oasis, Iron Maiden and Depeche Mode.Helter Skelter is the largest live agency outside North America with a roster of over 350 artists including Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eminem, Robbie Williams, Marilyn Manson and Anastacia.Sanctuary's Screen division creates and produces music programming for DVD and television as well as international family television programming. The fast growing DVD market has already helped this division to achieve great success.