INTRODUCTION

ABnote's Australian origins date back to 1837 when John Sands & Co began business, supplying specialist stationery and engraving printing plates for secure documents. With the discovery of gold in Victoria in 1848, John Sands became Australia's earliest supplier of security transaction documents.

The business emerged in its current form in the early 1990s, when Amcor acquired the John Sands cheque printing business and integrated it with its DataCard, Fortronics and Leigh Mardon divisions, trading under the Leigh Mardon brand.

In 1996, Amcor sold Leigh Mardon to the ABnote Global Group (ABN), one of the largest private sector security printers in the world. Today ABN operates through its subsidiary companies in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.

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