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 La Boétie la Charte" (Street of the Charter). It then udertook a quick succession of names, becoming "rue Lapeyrouse", "rue d'Angoulême à nouveau" (1852), "rue de Morny" (1863), "rue de la Commune" (1871), rue Mac-Mahon and finally "rue Pierre-Charron" in 1871. The area between the place Saint-Augustin and the place Chand-Goyon was called "rue de la Pépinière" until 1868, and then "rue Abattucci". The street took its current name in 1879, throughout its length, in honour of Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563), friend moralist of Michel de Montaigne. Rue La Boétie The rue La Boétie is a street in the 8th arrondissement