On the 24 May 2016 British commercial banknote printer De La Rue plc announced its 2015/2016 full year results. The announcement came just two days after the company announced the sale of Cash Processing Solutions Limited (CPS) to CPS Topco Limited, a company owned by UK based private equity firm Privet Capital. De La Rue Results: Read…
The Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA), the country’s Central Bank, has issued a new commemorative banknote printed on De La Rue’s Safeguard® polymer substrate. The 5,000 Rufiyaa note, which is a new high value denomination, was issued on Monday the 27th July 2015. It is issued to mark the 50th Anniversary of independence of Maldives. The…
De La Rue plc. announced yesterday that it had joined forces with Japanese printing company Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP) to collaboratively develop anti-counterfeit technologies for secure identity documents. The announcement said that the agreement was signed earlier this month and that the partnership will: “centre on the development and delivery of sophisticated new…
The Maldives Monetary Authority, the country’s Central Bank, has announced that its next series of banknotes will be printed using De La Rue’s Safeguard® polymer substrate. The new family of notes will consist of denominations currently circulating (10, 20, 50, 100 and 500 Rufiyaa), the new 1,000 Rufiyaa note which is due to be issued in…
De La Rue has reported that it’s SafeGuard® polymer substrate has been selected by the Central Bank of The Gambia for its new 20 Dalasi banknote denomination. The new banknote is being issued into circulation to commemorate 20 years of governance by the President His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Abdul-Azziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh. De…
Yesterday’s announcement from De La Rue (DLR), a large commercial banknote printer and passport manufacturer based in the United Kingdom, has confirmed that they have signed a new 10 year contract with the Bank of England. The contract is to print sterling GBP banknotes at the Bank’s note printing facility in Debden, Essex, UK, and will…
UK based banknote printer De La Rue has seen its shares drop 30% after it issued a profits warning, with this year’s profits expected to be £20m lower than the previous financial period. The company, which produces the UK’s biometric passports and prints banknotes for countries worldwide, warned that industry trading conditions had “deteriorated” causing prices…
It has today been announced that the Bank of England (BoE) has selected De La Rue as the preferred bidder in the tender for its banknote printing contract starting in April 2015. The BoE advised that De La Rue had been awarded the contract “as a result of scoring highest in the Bank’s evaluation process for…
This morning De La Rue plc (DLR) reported its full year results for the 2013/2014 period. The largest commercial producer of banknotes and security documents, which has a market capitalisation of around £880 million, has reported a 37% increase in pre-tax profits for the year to March 29 2014, showing continued recovery from the paper production…
The Banque du Liban has launched a new commemorative polymer banknote produced on De La Rue’s Safeguard™ polymer substrate. The 50,000 LBP note has been issued to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Banque du Liban. The note includes a clear window which incorporates De La Rue’s SPARK® Orbital™ feature in the…