In a trading statement to accompany its year-end preliminary results to 26 March 2005, the firm said the payout would be equivalent to 38p a share.
This will be accompanied by a share consolidation, which will reduce the number of shares in issue by 10%.
In March De la Rue predicted that results would be ahead of market forecasts, and it was proved right as it posted a pre-tax profit of 66.5m, 13.3% up on the previous year. The strong profit came despite a 5.8% fall in sales to 643.2m.
Chairman Nicholas Brookes said the performance had been achieved despite a 9.1m adverse impact from currency exchanges, in particular the weakness of the US dollar throughout the year.
A strong operating result for its security paper and print division, where operating profit was up 7.5% to 45.6m, was helped by a delay in currency orders from the previous year, and the success of the 2bn Iraq bank note contract in 2003.
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