American Banknote Corporation - ARBN- Profile

American Banknote Corporation. The Group's principal activities are to provide secure printed documents, printed and personalized secure and non-secure transaction and identification cards and systems and a wide array of document management and transaction services and solutions. The Group designs and manufactures products that incorporate anti-fraud and counterfeit resistant technologies. The principal product lines of the Group are transaction cards and systems, printing services and document management and security printing solutions. The Group operates in following segments: United States, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, France and Argentina, serving financial institutions, governments and corporations. On 26-Apr-2004, the Group discontinued the business of its former Australian subsidiary ABN Australasia Limited (trading as the Leigh Mardon Group). Security Printing Solutions acctd for 44% of 2004 revs; Transaction Cards & Systems, 38% and Printing Services & Doc Mgmt ,18%