Vicente Lladró, one of the three founders of the decorative porcelain firm Lladró, has died this Friday at age 86, as sources from the family have confirmed to Europa Press.

The businessman, along with his brothers Juan and José, already deceased, raised the emblematic Valencian firm in Tavernes de la Valldigna in 1953 .

The hall of the Municipal Tantatory of Valencia where Vicente's body rests will be open from 11 am on Saturday and at 5 pm a mass will be offered in his memory .

Juan, José and Vicente began to elaborate their pieces in their native house near Valencia. Over the years, the lawsuit caused the Lladró to move their family workshop to a ship in the neighboring town of Tavernes Blanques, future headquarters of the current company in the so-called 'City of Porcelain' of 100,000 square meters .

The Valencian firm - currently in the hands of the PHI Industrial group - made the leap abroad in 1986 when it landed in Asia, with subsidiaries in Japan and China , and two years later it opened its first museum and gallery in the 'Big Apple', in full Fifth Avenue.

After a process of expansion and diversification of products, in 2007 the family decided to break the society , distributed to 33% by the three branches. Juan and his four daughters went on to assume 70% of the historical division Lladró Comercial, which groups both the porcelain business, with its brands Lladró and Nao, and the jewelry store with Carrera y Carrera. José and Vicente shared the remaining 30%.

A decade later, in January 2017, the company's Extraordinary General Meeting agreed to accept the purchase offer on Lladró , made by PHI Industrial, after Lladró's parent company, Sogidei, published the call to authorize the sale of 100 % of actions. On December 16, 2017, Juan Lladró died at 91, and two years later, last June, José died, also at the same age.

Last April, the Lladró management informed the company committee and the unions of a collective dismissal procedure , which finally affected a total of 76 workers in the four companies that make up the group.

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