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Hoepli Publishing Crisis: Liquidation Threat and Employee Redundancy Fund

Of Roberto Rizzo It is one of the symbols of Milanese culture: Mondadori and Feltrinelli had taken steps to purchase the company, but without completing the deal. Negotiations started with a fund for the sale of the school…

Hoepli Publishing Crisis: Liquidation Threat and Employee Redundancy Fund

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Roberto Rizzo

It is one of the symbols of Milanese culture: Mondadori and Feltrinelli had taken steps to purchase the company, but without completing the deal. Negotiations started with a fund for the sale of the school catalogue. Tensions between owners

The 89 employees facing redundancythe historic publishing house Ulrico Hoepli towards liquidation. A dramatic scenario, we learn from financial sources, for one of the symbols of Milanese culture. The company would communicate to the workers the start of the redundancy fundwhile negotiations are reportedly underway with a international fund for the sale of the publishing house, in particular the school catalogue, the most profitable onewhich holds a 5% market share.

On the future of the company they weigh, and not a little, the internal tensions within the Hoepli family: Ulrico Carlo Hoepli and his three sons hold 75% of the shares, the remaining 25% is in the hands of the Nava brothers. In the past, both Mondadori and Feltrinelli had taken steps to purchase the publishing house, negotiations which never reached a conclusion. An official decision on Hoepli’s future is expected on February 26th.





















































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February 11, 2026

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