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
Rue de la Huchette no less than four pubs and several bars. The rue de la Huchette existed as early as 1200 as the "rue de Laas", a road running adjacent to a walled vineyard property known then as the "clos du Laas". The property was sold and divided for urban development in the early 13th century, grew many noble properties in the centuries following, but from the 17th century the "rue de la Huchette" was known mostly for its taverns and "rotisseries" ("meat-roasters"). The inhabitants of the "rue de la Huchette" in the period leading up to the Second World War are portrayed