De La Rue on March 2005 Sequoia was sold to Smartmatic, a multi-national technology company which had developed advanced election systems, voting machines included. In 2003, the company acquired the Debden-based banknote printing operations of the Bank of England. In 2003 and 2004 the company supplied banknotes to Iraq. The company was recognised by Hermann Simon as a role model for other small- to medium-sized businesses in his book "Hidden Champions". The Highest Perfection, a history of De La Rue was published in 2011. Written by Peter Pugh for De La Rue, it covered the years 1712–2003. In August 2014, the company announced
Rue de la Petite-Truanderie Rue de la Petite-Truanderie Rue de la Petite-Truanderie ("street in Little Truanderie") is an old path, in the 1st District of Paris , in France. The exact origin of the name is not known, but there are two thesis: In 1817, the "Rue de la Petite-Truanderie", a length of 52 meters, began at number 16-18 rue Mondétour and finished at number 13-18 rue de la Grande-Truanderie. It was located in the former 5th district in the Montorgueil. The numbers in the street were black one. The last number were odd number 15 and the last was the even number number