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De La Rue PLC

  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Banknote maker De la Rue agrees £263mn takeover by US buyout group Atlas

    All-cash offer faces competing interest from entities owned by City financier Edi Truell

    The De La Rue logo is displayed on a beige wall at the company’s Malta facility
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    De La Rue in talks over stake with Edi Truell-backed investors

    Disruptive Capital and Pension Superfund looking to acquire as much as 40% in banknote publisher

    Staff manufacturer £10 Sterling Banknotes for the Bank of England at the De La Rue production facility
  • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
    De La Rue slashes forecasts as banknote demand tumbles

    UK currency and passport printer warns of low order volumes for coming year

    A woman holds Indonesian rupiah banknotes
  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    De La Rue warns on profits after restructuring charges

    Auditors of British banknote printer disclose ‘material uncertainty’ of the group as a going concern

    De La Rue’s production facility in Essex
  • Monday, 12 September, 2022
    Lex
    De La Rue: cash printer needs to do the same for its shareholders Premium content

    The company would need to pay regular dividends to regain its lost status as a UK mid-cap

    The corporate logo of De La Rue
  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    De La Rue shares fall after banknote maker issues profit warning over rising costs

    M&S and Purplebricks among other UK companies under pressure from inflation and economic uncertainty

    £10 notes at the De La Rue production facility in Essex, UK
  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    De La Rue investor calls for sale or break-up after profit warning

    Activist Crystal Amber says banknote maker has focused on volume sales rather than profit

  • Monday, 24 January, 2022
    De La Rue shares plunge as banknote maker warns on profit

    UK group says rising costs, chip shortages and staff absences will hamper full-year earnings

    British £5 and £10 notes
  • Saturday, 22 May, 2021
    News in-depth
    Inside the UK’s moneymaking factory where cash is still king

    Bank of England site is increasing production despite pandemic spurring digital payments

    Production of £10 notes at De La Rue’s facility in Debden, Essex
  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    De La Rue in talks over Covid immunity certificates

    British moneymaker announces sevenfold increase in first-half adjusted operating profits

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    De La Rue to halt Gateshead factory production after passport contract loss

    Company plans to raise £100m through share placing to complete turnround

    De La Rue will now print banknotes for the UK and other countries from only one British site, at Debden in Essex
  • Tuesday, 16 June, 2020
    SFO ends probe into banknote printer De La Rue

    Investigation into business in South Sudan closes due to insufficient evidence

  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2020
    LombardCat Rutter Pooley
    In barmy world of fintech, $5.5bn for Revolut is not so bonkers

    Neobank’s funding round sets new valuation parameters; De La Rue battles to last a decade

    Smartphone with Revolut logo is placed on the U.S. dollar banknotes in this illustration taken February 4, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2020
    De La Rue announces cost cuts to revitalise business

    Banknote manufacturer enjoys share price surge as focus switches to polymer currency printing

    FILE PHOTO: The corporate logo of De La Rue at a new 27 million euro product authentication facility at De La Rue Malta in Zejtun, Malta, April 24, 2018. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/File Photo - RC1234FE8A60
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2019
    News in-depth
    This company can print money but not make it

    After losing UK passport contract, De La Rue is more reliant on exotic currency customers

  • Monday, 2 December, 2019
    Activist fund set to double stake in banknote maker De La Rue

    Crystal Amber’s move shows sign of confidence in struggling UK group

    The Elizabeth Tower, also known as Big Ben, is seen on a British five pound banknote, in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. The U.K. currency is getting harder to trade, and to predict, because the nation’s exit from the European Union has changed the rules of engagement. Photographer: Miles Willis/Bloomberg
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2019
    LexUK companies
    De La Rue: the folding stuff Premium content

    The king of cash is not dead yet. But he is very poorly

  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2019
    De La Rue shares plunge on warning about its future

    UK group points to ‘material uncertainty’ if a turnround plan does not tackle debt pile

    FILE PHOTO: British five pound banknotes.November 14, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    De La Rue’s past failings are tearing up a £500m British business

    Printing group’s polymer banknotes may be hard to rip, but its share price is not

    The Elizabeth Tower, also known as Big Ben, and a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II are seen on a British five pound banknote, in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. The U.K. currency is getting harder to trade, and to predict, because the nation’s exit from the European Union has changed the rules of engagement. Photographer: Miles Willis/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2019
    De La Rue shares tumble 20% after second profit warning this year

    Banknote printer has been hit by host of setbacks, including SFO investigation

    FILE PHOTO: The corporate logo of De La Rue at a new 27 million euro product authentication facility at De La Rue Malta in Zejtun, Malta, April 24, 2018. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/File Photo - RC1234FE8A60
  • Monday, 7 October, 2019
    Banknote printer De La Rue appoints new chief executive

    Turnround specialist Clive Vacher joins group as it faces challenges on a number of fronts

    New plastic notes...File photo dated 18/12/13 of examples of polymer banknotes, as De La Rue have been chosen by the Bank of England as its preferred bidder to print the country's first plastic bank notes. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday September 8, 2014. The Basingstoke-based firm, which has produced bank notes since 1860, is expected to sign an extended 10-year contract that will see it print standard notes from next year, as well as the plastic notes from 2016. See PA story CITY DeLaRue. Photo credit should read: Dylan Martinez/PA Wire
  • Monday, 2 September, 2019
    LombardKate Burgess
    Dechra gallops ahead of its rivals by not frightening the horses

    Small but resilient, this Cheshire company has in five years doubled revenues and tripled earnings

    RD1NMJ cropped view of veterinarian microchipping black cat in latex gloves on grey background
  • Monday, 2 September, 2019
    De La Rue picks Micro Focus executive as new chairman

    Kevin Loosemore will join banknote printer as it struggles with crises

    FILE PHOTO: The corporate logo of De La Rue is seen at De La Rue Malta at Bulebel Industrial Estate in Zejtun, Malta April 24, 2018. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/File Photo
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2019
    De La Rue suffers shareholder revolt over executive pay

    Rebellion over chief’s pension is latest blow to banknote printer

  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2019
    Serious Fraud Office opens investigation into De La Rue 

    Shares in UK banknote printer tumble after disclosure of probe tied to South Sudan

    FILE PHOTO: The corporate logo of De La Rue is seen at De La Rue Malta at Bulebel Industrial Estate in Zejtun, Malta April 24, 2018. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/File Photo
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