Manuel Milà de la Roca pronto cedió la dirección del periódico a Lluís Maria Llauder, nuevo propietario y director del diario hasta su muerte en el año 1904. Desde entonces un grupo de accionistas, formado por sacerdotes, alta y media nobleza española, propietarios, comerciantes e industriales, crearon una empresa editora con el nombre de Fomento Press Traditionalist SA
A year before the onset of the sports daily El Mundo Deportivo, El Correo Catalán in 1905 launched the first sports page in a general journal. It also created new sections on literature and agriculture.
Beginning in 1912, joined Solidarity Catalan Carlist continued to maintain its trend and started a bilingual stage he had written in Catalan and Castilian.
In the Civil War began on 20 July 1936, it stopped publishing and was seized by the Paritdo Workers Marxist Unification (POUM) to edit your body "Battle." Its director, Joan Soler i Janer, was forced to leave the address after you have done for years. Of the eighteen existing newspapers in the city and Barcelona on July 19, 1936, could only return four. And writing workshops were attacked and burned. El Correo Catalán
spontaneously brought a number the day after the fall of Barcelona, \u200b\u200band reappeared on February 14, 1939.
the late fifties came into the company that publishes a group of shareholders linked to the Catalan bourgeoisie. Andreu is the time Escofet Rossello and Manuel Ibanez, with whom the newspaper conducted a course for the moderate Catalan and democratic between 1958 and 1963.
Since 1964, adopts an "open" and "county", reaching more than 100,000 copies, and revamped its format full color graphics supplements coming out on Sunday. In 1965 he became a favorite newspapers opposed Franco and becoming the second largest in Catalonia, behind English La Vanguardia and ahead of El Noticiero Universal. Ibanez Escofet left the newspaper in 1968. In those years came to an occasional paper edited in Catalan, particularly in the color Sunday supplements including collectible booklets various topics.
In 1974 the board changed. According to the Office of Justification and Diffusion in just three years declined from 67,000 copies to 38,000, coming in a deep economic crisis in 1982. In November 1985, motivated employees strike over unpaid payroll precipitated the ultimate demise of the newspaper.
