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Giesecke & Devrient: It’s a family affair
Wednesday, March 19 2008

Company takes pride in its 155-year history, as well as its bright future

By Andy Williams Contributing Editor

G&D prides itself on being the world’s number two producer of smart cards. But G&D is about more than just smart cards. For one, its genealogy dates back to 1852 when two men first created the company. For another, it prints banknotes, a lot of them for a lot of countries throughout the world. And for many, like the Federal Reserve in the U.S., it delivers the systems used to count and sort those banknotes and to weed out counterfeits.


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