All the countries of the world have their own printing presses to print notes. But today we are going to tell you about a printing press located in England, where currencies of all the countries of the world are printed. Not only this, the name of this company is also registered in the London Stock Exchange. ‘De La Rue’ is the world’s largest currency printing company. The big company is ‘De La Rue’. Let us tell you that this is a British company. Its headquarters is in Basingstoke, England. Apart from notes and stamp papers of many countries, it also works in printing papers, passports and security products. According to the information, separate units of its big factories do the work of printing currency notes and stamp papers of countries, apart from passports, chequebooks, postage stamps and security printing. Let us tell you that all these works are done here under very high security.
How did the company start?
This company started in a very modest way. It happened from. According to the information, earlier this company had its own small printing press, on which it used to print and sell playing cards. Along with this she used to make hats. This company was started 200 years ago in 1821. At that time the company had started its work from Guernsey. But then he took his work to London. Let us tell you that this company was first known as a hat maker. But then he started printing playing cards under Royal Warrant License. Because in those days companies could not print playing cards like this. For this they had to obtain proper rights from the government.
How the company progressed
According to the information, when the company started printing playing cards At that time, I had also started looking at other options for printing. Under this, he started printing stamp tickets in 1855. Although postage stamps in those days were a matter related to security printing. After this the company felt that it could enter the business of currency printing. Because at that time very few countries had advanced type of printing presses. For this reason, the company first got the order to print currency from Mauritius and then from Iran in 1955. After this the company had moved ahead. After this, other countries also started coming to him for everything from currency printing to postage stamp printing. The logo of this company has the picture of its founder Thomas de la Rue. Its headquarters is located in Basingstoke, England. Many printing units of this company are present.
Note printing work
According to the information, in 2003 this company started printing notes of England, Iraq. Was. At the same time, this company had prepared big security standards in currency designing. However, after the arrival of the digital era, the functioning of the company has also been affected. Today the company has work in 70 countries. In which most of the small African countries are. But earlier this company also had work for many big countries. According to the information, high security paper was supplied by this company for a long time in India. But now India makes currency paper itself.
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