Holding in Company

De La Rue PLC
23 August 2000



De La Rue plc
25p Ordinary Shares

The Company on 23 August 2000 received the following notification from FMR
Corp dated 23 August 2000:

Notifications under sections 198 to 202, Companies Act

1.  Company in which shares are held:   De La Rue plc

2.  Notifiable interest:         Ordinary Shares

    (A)     FMR Corp.
            82 Devonshire Street
            Boston, MA 02109

    Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO),
    investment manager for US mutual funds. (See Schedule A for listing of 
    Registered Shareholders and their holdings.)
   
    (B)     Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
            PO Box HM 670
            Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

    Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, 
    including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd (FISL), Fidelity Pension 
    Management (FPM), and investment managers for various non-US investment 
    companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for listing of   
    Registered Shareholders and their holdings).

3. The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:

           Mr Edward C. Johnson 3d
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           Principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International  
           Limited.

4.  The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorised  
    unit trust schemes in the UK, notwithstanding the exemption from 
    reporting pursuant to Section 209(1)(e) of the Companies Act 1985.

5.  These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate 
    notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for the 
    purposes of clarity. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate that 
    FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Fidelity
    International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries or Mr 
    Edward C. Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of the 
    disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these 
    notifications on a joint basis.

5.  The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4)(b) of the Act, namely
    where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled to exercise
    a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to control the exercise 
    of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act respectively.

    Schedule A

    Shares held  Management company  Nominee/registered name
       100,000         FMRCO         Lloyds Bank Nominees Limited
     8,080,621          FISL         Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) 
                                         Nominees Limited 
       734,270          FPM          Bankers Trust
        78,880          FPM          BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
        97,715          FPM          MSS Nominees Ltd
       893,895          FPM          Chase Nominees Ltd
       547,697          FIL          Clydesdale Bank (Head Office) 
                                        Nominees Limited
       564,295          FIL          Nortrust Nominees Ltd
       758,290          FIL          RBS Trust Bank
       161,160          FIL          Morgan Stanley
        74,391          FIL          Bankers Trust
       126,745          FIL          BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
       602,400          FIL          Chase Nominees Ltd
     2,127,700          FIL          MSS Nominees Ltd
        68,600          FIL          Bank of New York Europe
       171,900          FIL          Northern Trust
    __________

    15,188,559
    __________

The total number of shares held under this notifiable interest is    
15,188,559 which represents 7.91% of the number of shares in issue.


Enquiries: Paul Hollingworth, Finance Director        01256 605321