De La Rue PLC

LSE:DLAR

De La Rue Plc engages in the business of providing commercial security printing and papermaking services. The company is headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire and currently employs 2,181 full-time employees. The firm operates through two segments: Currency and Authentication. The Currency segment provides printed banknotes, polymer substrates and banknote security components. The Authentication segment is engaged in supplying a range of physical and digital solutions, such as tax stamps and supporting software solutions, authentication labels and associated brand protection digital solutions, cheques and bank cards, and identity document (ID) security components including polycarbonate. The firm manufactures banknote paper for use by central banks, state printworks, commercial print and paper mills. The company is a producer of polymer substrate. The company offers diverse portfolios in the market (covering threads, applied features, print features and convert features, encompassing colourshift, holographics and microoptics technologies).