Pere Vicens Rahola buys 75% of the shares of Vicens Vives from his siblings, waiting for SEPI funds to re-emerge.

The leading publisher in our country of educational texts, Vicens Vives, founded by Roser Rahola de Espona and his son Pere Vicens Rahola in 1961, rewrites its history after the struggle that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on hundreds of publishers. In addition to the problems that the pandemic has left - and continues to cause - in January 2020 the co-founder - widow of the humanist Jaume Vicens Vives, founder of the also historic Ediciones Teide publishing house- died, leaving 75% of her shares to her children Roser, Adela, Anna and Albert, who were not shareholders. A few weeks later the State of Alert was imposed, leading to the collapse of the business.

With almost 60 years of operation at that time, Vicens Vives occupied a very relevant position in the publishing of educational textbooks, mainly in Spain, but also in Latin America. The year before the pandemic, sales were over 30 million Euros and had 400 employees.

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