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
Les Sages Poètes de la Rue Les Sages Poètes de la Rue Les Sages Poètes de la Rue (The Wise Poets of the Street): Dany Dan, Melopheelo and Zoxea, are a French hip hop band that has profoundly influenced and keeps influencing their musical genre as a band or through their solo career. Les Sages Poètes de la Rue made their first apparition on the hip-hop scene in 1993 on the "Cool Sessions" compilation and on the original soundtrack of the movie La Haine with "Bon Baiser du Poste" (With love from the Police station). Far from the hardcore trend, Les Sages Poètes de la Rue,