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
Gervais de La Rue d'Agriculture de Caen", and in other periodical collections, he published separately "Essais historiques sur les Bardes, les Jongleurs, et les Trouvères normands et anglo-normands" (3 vols., 1834), and "Recherches historiques sur la Prairie de Caen" (1837); and after his death appeared "Mémoires historiques sur le palinod de Caen" (1841), "Recherches sur la tapisserie de Bayeux" (1841), and "Nouveaux Essais historiques sur la ville de Caen" (1842). In all his writings, he displayed a strong partiality for everything Norman, and rated the Norman influence on French and English literature as of the very highest moment. Gervais de La Rue Gervais de