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
Femme de la rue about a cultural border which was not the intent of the author but showed to be important to consider. This documentary also features women of both autochthone and allochthone backgrounds who talk about their experiences while walking the streets of Brussels. 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