What do rampant inflation, a change in the head of state and the birth of a new country have in common? They are all good news for bank note printers. Unfortunately the past year afforded few such instances. As a result, flat volumes drove revenues at De La Rue, the world’s largest commercial bank note printer, down 8 per cent over the year that ended in March. Only cost cutting helped the 200-year-old company to keep operating profit flat at £63m.
物價瘋漲,國家元首換人,一個新國家誕生,這三件事有何共同之處?答案是:這三件事對印鈔者而言都是好事。不巧的是,過去的一年裏沒有多少這樣的好事。因此,世界最大的商業印鈔廠——德納羅(De La Rue),在截至3月的一年中鈔票印量同比持平,導致營收下降8%。通過削減成本,這家200歲的企業才得以實現跟上年持平的營業利潤——6300萬英鎊。
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