Better Health for All

The company's core products, such as banknotes, passports, and identity documents, have no direct positive or negative impact on public health. However, as a manufacturing entity, the company actively mitigates indirect health externalities through significant environmental remediation efforts. In 2024, a solar farm at one site generated 420.7 MWh, avoiding 155 MT CO2e and powering 52% of the site's electricity, with an expected increase to 90% in 2025.

Another site's solar panels reduce emissions by approximately 690 metric tons of CO2e annually. The company also offset over 5000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and reduced water consumption by 16% in the last four years. All other health-related KPIs are not applicable as the company's operations do not involve health products, services, or direct public health engagement. Employee health and safety initiatives, while present, do not fall under the scope of external health impact.

Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

De La Rue plc's core business is the production of banknotes, passports, identity documents, and brand protection products for governments, central banks, and commercial organizations

. The company does not offer consumer lending, deposit, or other direct financial services. Consequently, there is no evidence in the provided articles regarding metrics such as the share of underserved clients, pricing fairness of consumer loans, revenue from exploitative fees, financial inclusion initiatives, customer data accessibility for financial services, fair lending compliance, wealth building outcomes for consumers, profit reinvestment in community finance, financial literacy programs for the public, customer debt burden ratios, geographic inclusion for banking services, or product simplicity for consumer financial products. Information related to the company's internal diversity, environmental reporting, or corporate financial health does not apply to the specific criteria of this ethical value, which focuses on direct financial services to consumers.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

63% of the company's global employees are covered by collective bargaining agreements.

As of April 5, 2018, the median gender pay gap was 17.47%, indicating that women's median pay was 82.53% of men's median pay. The company reported zero prosecutions for infringing health and safety laws or regulations. Furthermore, a Serious Fraud Office investigation into suspected corruption in South Sudan operations was discontinued in June 2020.

Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

De La Rue reported no specific incidents of forced or child labour in its 2021 Annual Report, and no concerns or breaches of its Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy were raised during the year to March 2025.

The company maintains a zero-tolerance policy towards modern slavery within its supply chain and has management systems to protect human rights, including a new supplier onboarding process that considers modern slavery risk.

Honest & Fair Business

The company reported one financial restatement in FY23, specifically for net debt.

There is no further information available regarding regulatory fines, transparency index scores, whistleblower policies, audit coverage, ESG controversy scores, complaint resolution times, board conflict of interest percentages, anti-corruption policy strength, or the extent of third-party verification of ethical claims.

Respect for Cultures & Communities

De La Rue has 3 formal partnership agreements with unions in the UK (UNITE), Malta (General Workers Union (GWU)), and Sri Lanka (De La Rue Branch – Internal Company Employees Union (ICEU)).

No cultural appropriation incidents have been reported, and the company designs banknotes to reflect the cultural heritage of the issuing country.

Safe & Smart Tech

No specific, concrete evidence was found across the provided articles for any of the 'Safe & Smart Tech' KPIs. The articles primarily focus on financial performance and strategic updates. While one article mentions the Authentication division 'leveraging advanced digital software solutions and security labels to protect revenues and reputations from the impacts of illicit trade, counterfeiting, and identity theft,'

this is a general statement about product functionality and does not provide measurable data for internal company practices related to data breaches, cybersecurity investment, privacy certifications, AI ethics, or other specified metrics.