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
L'Église de la rue Belliard 1973 to become "L’Église Protestante Bruxelles-Botanique". The church building on "rue Belliard" was sold in 1974 and a new building on "boulevard Bisschoffsheim" dedicated in 1977. Succession of pastors at "L’Église de la rue Belliard" L'Église de la rue Belliard L’Église de la rue Belliard was a Brussels-based evangelical Protestant congregation, started in 1837 when a group left the Temple de l'Observatoire Protestant church. "L’Église de la rue Belliard" originally met on "rue du Jeu de paume" under pastor Denis Lourde-Laplace, then on "24 rue Ducale" under the ministry of pastor Edouard Panchaud (1839–1862). In 1851 the congregation built an