On December 7, 1926, at the Bisbal d’Empordx, Fxlix Llaty sold the company to his young Josep Negre, in exchange for five thousand pesetas, three carriages, the storage facility, the factory and the commitment not to do business with the gases and siphons on the other hand.

They were difficult times, Joseph Negre was widowed too early and years later married Carme Reig, with whom he had a daughter, Dolors.

When the war broke out, the factory had to close. The only truck in the company was seized and Joseph had to go to the front. Upon his return, the factory had been destroyed by Republican bombs and although the truck returned from the battle, Joseph died of typhus and was unable to start the business again.

Carme Reig, like so many other post-war women, then threw off the company’s and family’s cart, a daughter then 7 years old, Dolors.

Amid so much misery, the recipe for a different gas came out and it is the same one still used today.

When Dolors was large, she married Salvi Buenaventura, who took over the business. From this marriage, two children were born: Joseph and Maria Rosa.

Around seventy, Joseph began working at the factory and years later married N casarria Saballs, who also decided to be part of the business and grow the company.

In 1983, they had a son, Louis, who is now in charge of business and the fourth generation of a company that continues to grow up in the hotel sector.