DE LA RUE LIMITED
De La Rue Limited (company number 03834125) is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, incorporated on 31 August 1999 and currently recorded with an active status at Companies House. It traded as Precis (1809) Limited on incorporation, was renamed New De La Rue PLC in November 1999 and De La Rue PLC in February 2000, and re-registered under its current name, De La Rue Limited, on 7 July 2025. Its registered office is De La Rue House, Jays Close, Viables, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 4BS.
De La Rue Limited is the former parent holding and operating company of the De La Rue group, a currency and security print business. Companies House SIC codes registered against the entity cover printing not elsewhere classified, activities of other holding companies, and other service activities not elsewhere classified. Through its operating subsidiaries the group designs, prints and supplies banknotes and related security features to central banks and currency-issuing authorities, and provides authentication and product-security solutions used to help protect brands, documents and government products against counterfeiting.
Until 2 July 2025 the company was De La Rue PLC, listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker DLAR. On that date a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement completed the all-cash acquisition of De La Rue PLC by ACR Bidco Limited, an acquisition vehicle reported in press coverage as managed by Atlas Holdings LLC, at GBP 1.30 per ordinary share. De La Rue PLC’s shares were cancelled from trading on the London Stock Exchange, and the company subsequently re-registered as a private limited company under its current name.
For the financial year ended 29 March 2025, while still publicly listed as De La Rue PLC, the group reported consolidated revenue of approximately GBP 217.5 million, up from GBP 207.1 million in the prior year, across its Currency and Authentication divisions. These are consolidated group figures reported under the company’s former public listing rather than standalone results for De La Rue Limited alone; no separate company-level financial results for De La Rue Limited have been identified in the sources reviewed.
De La Rue Limited’s most recent confirmation statement was filed on 3 July 2026, and its last annual accounts were filed for the period ended 29 March 2025. Companies House records also show a change to the entity’s persons-with-significant-control registration on 6 March 2026, when DLR Debtco Limited replaced ACR Bidco Limited as the registered controlling shareholder, consistent with an internal restructuring within the acquiring group following completion of the 2025 acquisition.
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Shareholders
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De La Rue Limited is a private limited company, and UK company law does not require private companies to publish a full shareholder register with exact percentage holdings; disclosure is instead made through the persons-with-significant-control (PSC) regime, which records banded ownership ranges. On that basis, Companies House records one active person with significant control: DLR Debtco Limited (company number 16828547), holding 75 percent or more of De La Rue Limited’s shares, 75 percent or more of its voting rights, and the right to appoint or remove directors, notified 6 March 2026. DLR Debtco Limited replaced ACR Bidco Limited (company number 16379363) in that role; ACR Bidco Limited had held the equivalent 75 percent-or-more interest from 2 July 2025, when it completed a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement to acquire the company (then De La Rue PLC), until its PSC entry ceased on 6 March 2026. Before 2 July 2025, as De La Rue PLC, the company’s shares were publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and beneficially owned by a dispersed base of institutional investors; that public shareholder base is no longer current, since the shares were cancelled from trading on completion of the acquisition.
Ultimate beneficial ownership
No natural-person ultimate beneficial owner is confirmed from the sources reviewed. The registered person with significant control, DLR Debtco Limited, is itself a corporate entity, and Companies House filings reviewed for it did not surface a named natural-person controller. Press reporting on the 2025 acquisition associates the ACR Bidco Limited vehicle with Atlas Holdings LLC, a US-based investment firm, as manager of the acquisition, but no complete, officially filed ownership chain from De La Rue Limited to a named individual was verified in the course of this research, so no UBO or effective percentage is reported.
Data availability
Classification: Major shareholders only. Companies House publishes the identity of the person with significant control and a banded ownership/voting-rights range (75 percent or more) for De La Rue Limited, but not an exact percentage shareholding or a full shareholder register. Historical internal records associated with this profile reference publicly traded institutional and mutual-fund shareholdings (for example, Dimensional/DFA funds); that data reflects the company’s former public shareholder base as De La Rue PLC before its shares were cancelled from trading on 2 July 2025 and has not been treated as current for this profile.
Sources
- Companies House, persons with significant control filing for De La Rue Limited (company 03834125), retrieved September 2026
- Companies House, company filing for DLR Debtco Limited (company 16828547), retrieved September 2026
- Companies House, company filing for ACR Bidco Limited (company 16379363), retrieved September 2026
- Investegate / National Storage Mechanism, “Scheme of Arrangement becomes effective”, 2 July 2025
- TipRanks, “De La Rue Shareholders Approve Acquisition by ACR Bidco Limited”, 2025
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Companies House, including entries the profile above does not cover.
| Shareholder | Type | Holding | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSIONS GROUP INC-Intl Core Eqy. 2 PORT. | 34.9% | Companies House | |
| DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSIONS GROUP INC-DFA Intl Small Cap Value PORT. | 7% | Companies House | |
| DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSIONS GROUP INC-World ex U.S. Core Eqy. PORT. | 3.4% | Companies House | |
| -SSgA SPDR ETFS Europe I-SPDR FTSE UK All Share ETF | 2.7% | Companies House | |
| DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSIONS GROUP INC-Intl Sustainability Core 1 PORT. | 2.4% | Companies House |
Officers
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Companies House records three active directors for De La Rue Limited and 51 resigned officers spanning the entity’s history since 1999, reflecting substantial turnover in governance roles, including through its period as a publicly listed company. The current directors are Michael James Aumann (appointed 7 July 2025, nationality Australian), Ruth Corrina Euling (appointed 1 April 2021, nationality British) and Clive Graham Vacher (appointed 7 October 2019, nationality British). Mr Aumann’s appointment took effect the same week the acquisition of the company completed and its shares were cancelled from trading. No company secretary is currently shown as an active appointment; UK private companies have not been required to have one since the Companies Act 2006. The officer information reviewed is dated September 2026.
Recent officer changes
- Michael James Aumann appointed Director, effective 7 July 2025 (source: Companies House officer filing).
- Nicholas Paul Seaton Bray resigned as Director, effective 2 July 2025, the date the scheme of arrangement completed (source: Companies House officer filing).
- Peter Alexander Bacon resigned as Director, effective 28 January 2026 (source: Companies House officer filing).
Data availability
Classification: Full. Companies House publishes current and historical officer appointments with appointment and resignation dates for this entity. Nationality is disclosed for current directors as shown above; occupation is not separately confirmed in the sources reviewed and should not be assumed to be “Director” merely because that is the person’s legal role. Correspondence addresses shown in filings are service addresses only and are not evidence of an officer’s nationality or country of residence.
Sources
- Companies House, officers filing for De La Rue Limited (company 03834125), retrieved September 2026
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Companies House, including entries the profile above does not cover.
Group Structure
De La Rue Limited, formerly De La Rue PLC, is part of a private corporate group following its acquisition on 2 July 2025. Its immediate parent, independently verified through De La Rue Limited’s own Companies House persons-with-significant-control filing, is DLR Debtco Limited (company number 16828547), which holds 75 percent or more of its shares and voting rights, notified 6 March 2026. DLR Debtco Limited replaced ACR Bidco Limited (company number 16379363) in that role; ACR Bidco Limited had held the equivalent interest from 2 July 2025, when it completed the scheme-of-arrangement acquisition of the group, until 6 March 2026. Internal group records associate DLR Debtco Limited with a further intermediate holding company, DLR Debtco Holdco Limited, and treat ACR Bidco Limited as the ultimate parent; these upper-tier links were not independently re-verified against a PSC filing naming them directly as De La Rue Limited’s parent and are reported here as unverified but plausible, consistent with a typical private-equity acquisition holding structure. On the subsidiary side, De La Rue Limited is independently verified as the person with significant control of DLR (No.2) Limited (company number 06554391), a relationship notified 6 April 2016 that long predates the 2025 acquisition. Internal group records show further downstream entities beneath DLR (No.2) Limited, including DLR (No.1) Limited and De La Rue Holdings Limited, consistent with the group’s long-established operating structure; these further links were not each individually re-verified in this review. The information below is dated September 2026.
Verified corporate relationships
| Entity | Country | Registration number | Relationship | Ownership | Status | Information date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DLR Debtco Limited | GB | 16828547 | Immediate parent (verified) | 75% or more of shares and voting rights | Active | 6 March 2026 |
| ACR Bidco Limited | GB | 16379363 | Former immediate parent (historical, verified) | 75% or more of shares and voting rights | Ceased 6 March 2026 | 2 July 2025 – 6 March 2026 |
| DLR (No.2) Limited | GB | 06554391 | Direct subsidiary (verified) | 75% or more of shares and voting rights | Active | 6 April 2016 |
Recent structural changes
- Acquisition of De La Rue PLC by ACR Bidco Limited via court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement, completed 2 July 2025, at GBP 1.30 per ordinary share; shares cancelled from London Stock Exchange trading.
- Re-registration and renaming from De La Rue PLC to De La Rue Limited, effective 7 July 2025.
- Change of registered person with significant control from ACR Bidco Limited to DLR Debtco Limited, effective 6 March 2026, consistent with an internal reorganisation of the acquisition group.
Data availability
Classification: Partial. The immediate parent and one direct subsidiary are independently verified through Companies House PSC filings. The wider group tree, including the claimed ultimate parent and lower-tier subsidiaries such as De La Rue Holdings Limited and further operating entities, is drawn from internal group records reflecting the historical De La Rue group structure; it has not been individually re-verified against Companies House for each entity and may not fully reflect the group’s reorganisation around the 2025 acquisition and the March 2026 PSC change.
Sources
- Companies House, persons with significant control filing for De La Rue Limited (company 03834125)
- Companies House, persons with significant control filing for DLR (No.2) Limited (company 06554391)
- Companies House, company filings for DLR Debtco Limited (16828547) and ACR Bidco Limited (16379363)
- Investegate / National Storage Mechanism, “Scheme of Arrangement becomes effective”, 2 July 2025
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Companies House, including entries the profile above does not cover.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does DE LA RUE LIMITED do?
De La Rue Limited (company number 03834125), formerly De La Rue PLC, is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, incorporated 31 August 1999, and is the former parent of the De La Rue currency and security print and authentication group, headquartered in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Who owns DE LA RUE LIMITED?
Companies House records DLR Debtco Limited as holding 75 percent or more of De La Rue Limited's shares and voting rights, notified 6 March 2026, having replaced ACR Bidco Limited, which held the equivalent interest from the 2 July 2025 acquisition until that date; no exact percentage or full shareholder register is publicly disclosed for this private company.
Who is DE LA RUE LIMITED's UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No natural-person ultimate beneficial owner is confirmed from the sources reviewed; the registered person with significant control, DLR Debtco Limited, is a corporate entity, and press reporting links the acquiring group to Atlas Holdings LLC without a verified, complete ownership chain to a named individual.
What is DE LA RUE LIMITED's company registration number?
DE LA RUE LIMITED's registration number is 03834125, filed with Companies House in United Kingdom. Its current status on the register is active.
Is DE LA RUE LIMITED still an active company?
DE LA RUE LIMITED's status on Companies House is listed as active.
When was DE LA RUE LIMITED incorporated?
DE LA RUE LIMITED was incorporated on 31 August 1999, according to Companies House.
What is DE LA RUE LIMITED's registered address?
The registered address on file for DE LA RUE LIMITED is Basingstoke, United Kingdom.
What legal structure is DE LA RUE LIMITED registered as?
DE LA RUE LIMITED is registered as a Private limited company (Ltd.) in United Kingdom.
What is DE LA RUE LIMITED's revenue?
For the financial year ended 29 March 2025, while still publicly listed as De La Rue PLC, the group reported consolidated revenue of approximately GBP 217.5 million, up from GBP 207.1 million the prior year, across its Currency and Authentication divisions; these are consolidated group figures, not standalone results for De La Rue Limited.
Is DE LA RUE LIMITED listed on a stock exchange?
De La Rue Limited traded on the London Stock Exchange as De La Rue PLC, ticker DLAR, until 2 July 2025, when a scheme-of-arrangement acquisition by ACR Bidco Limited completed at GBP 1.30 per share and the shares were cancelled from trading; the company is no longer publicly listed.
Who are the officers/directors of DE LA RUE LIMITED?
De La Rue Limited has three active directors as of the sources reviewed: Michael James Aumann (appointed 7 July 2025, Australian), Ruth Corrina Euling (appointed 1 April 2021, British) and Clive Graham Vacher (appointed 7 October 2019, British); Companies House records 51 resigned officers for this long-established entity.
Does DE LA RUE LIMITED have a parent company or subsidiaries?
De La Rue Limited's Companies House-verified immediate parent is DLR Debtco Limited, holding 75 percent or more of shares and voting rights, notified 6 March 2026, and its verified direct subsidiary DLR (No.2) Limited has been linked to it since 6 April 2016; wider group-tree entities beyond these two verified links are drawn from internal records and have not been individually re-verified.
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Where does this company information come from, and how current is it?
This record is sourced directly from Companies House and was last synced on 8 September 2026.