De La Rue

De La Rue plc
Company typePublic limited company
LSEDLAR
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IndustryPrinting
Founded1821; 203 years ago (1821)
FounderThomas de la Rue
HeadquartersBasingstoke, Hampshire, England
Key people
  • Clive Vacher (CEO)
  • Clive Whiley (Chairman)
RevenueDecrease £349.7 million (2023)[1]
Decrease £(20.3) million (2023)[1]
Decrease £(57.2) million (2023)[1]
Number of employees
2,042 (2023)[1]
Websitewww.delarue.com Edit this at Wikidata

De La Rue plc (UK: /ˈdɛlər/, US: /ˌdɛləˈr/) is a British company headquartered in Basingstoke, England, that produces secure digital and physical protections for goods, trade, and identities in 140 countries.[1] It sells to governments, central banks, and businesses. Its authentication division provides government revenue technology, brand protection, and ID security, such as polycarbonate data pages for passports. Its currency division designs and produces banknotes, secure polymer substrate and banknote security features. This includes security holograms, security threads and security printed products for central banks and currency issuing authorities. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. It is the world's largest commercial printer of banknotes.[2]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Annual Report 2023" (PDF). De La Rue plc. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  2. ^ Newcomb, Alyssa (3 December 2019). "World's largest printer of money is running out of money". nbcnews.com. Retrieved 11 February 2023. It is the largest commercial printer in the world, produces passports for 40 countries, and has designed 36 percent of all banknote denominations in circulation...