De La Rue then as a stationer and printer. In 1831 he secured his business a Royal Warrant to produce playing cards. In 1855 it started printing postage stamps and in 1860 banknotes. In 1896, the family partnership was converted into a private company. In 1921, the de la Rue family sold their interests. The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1947. Then called "Thomas De La Rue & Company, Limited", it changed its name in 1958 to "The De La Rue Company Limited". A takeover bid for De La Rue was made by the Rank Organisation plc in
Femme de la rue Femme de la rue Femme de la rue ("Woman of the street") is a 2012 Belgian documentary made by Sofie Peeters. It runs for 25 minutes and deals with the subject of sexual harassment against women in the city of Brussels. This documentary was broadcast by Canvas on 26 July 2012. It caused a lot of commotion in both Belgian and Dutch politics about penalizing the harassment of women. Sofie Peeters, the author of this documentary, was a student of audiovisual arts at (RITCS) at the time of filming. She had moved to Brussels for these studies, where she was