De La Rue 1968, but this was rejected by the Monopolies commission as being against the public interest. In 1991 the company's name was changed again – this time to "De La Rue plc". In 1965 De La Rue established a joint venture with the Italian printer and inventor Gualtiero Giori called De La Rue Giori. Based in Switzerland, the company specialized in building banknote printing equipment. The company printed banknotes for the Central Bank of Iran during the 1960s. In 1995, the company acquired Portals Limited which had been listed on the London stock market since 1904. For almost 300 years Portals
Rue de la Loi Rue de la Loi Rue de la Loi (French) or Wetstraat (Dutch) is a principal road running through central and eastern Brussels (Belgium) which is famous due to the presence of several notable governmental buildings (of Belgium and the European Union). The road, whose name translates into English as "Law Street", runs from Rue Royale/Koningsstraat ( ), almost in the centre of Brussels, to Schuman roundabout (), in its European quarter. It forms the first (westerly) part of the N3 motorway that runs to Aachen, Germany. The term "Rue de la Loi" or "Wetstraat" is often used in the Belgian