As previously announced, Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire will request delisting of Oberthur Technologies' shares on Euronext Paris right after the AMF issues the results of the tender offer.
The French buyer, Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire, has 11pc of the global card market and is paying [pounds sterling]170m and taking on [pounds sterling]30m debt.
Cheques and banknotes printer De La Rue is to return at least pounds 100 million to shareholders after selling its plastic cards division to Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire of France for pounds 200 million.
A Year of Strong Growth for Oberthur Technologies: +14% Increase in Sales +13% Increase for Card Systems +17% Increase for the Fiduciary & Cash Protection Activities PARIS, January 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oberthur Technologies today announces its revenue for 2007, the first to consolidate the Card Systems activity, previously Oberthur Card Systems and the activities of its parent company, the fiduciary activities, previously Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire (FCOF) and Oberthur Cash Protection, previously Axytrans, following the execution of the merger on December 27th, 2007.
The new company is majority owned by Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire, which is the largest instant lottery producer and one of the top security printers of bank notes, checks, passports and identity cards world-wide.
PARIS, October 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Oberthur Card Systems (OCS) and Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire (FCOF) announce their plan to regroup their businesses under OCS with a view to creating a world leader in secure technologies, to be named Oberthur Technologies.
The new company is majority owned by Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire, which is the largest instant lottery producer and one of the top security printers of bank notes, checks, passports and identity cards worldwide.
PARIS, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Francois-Charles Oberthur Group announces transfer of the scratch cards activity of its subsidiary Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire to its subsidiary Oberthur Card Systems.