With its principal place of business in Sta. Mesa Heights, Quezon City, Rex Book Store, Inc. (RBSI) has risen from its humble beginnings on Azcarraga Street (now Claro M. Recto Avenue) to become one of the country’s biggest publishers of textbooks and related educational materials and proud of the slogan “The most comprehensive education provider in the Philippines.”

 

It is likewise the place where REX BOOK STORE (RBS) has its new beginning when the previous store was razed to the ground after a conflagration destroyed everything except for the one unblemished prayer book Jesus, Save me, which gave the Fontelera’s and Buhain’s the will to go on.

 

The year 1950 marked the conversion of Rex Book Store (RBS) in to Rex Book Store, Inc. (RBSI). After starting out by importing books from foreign publishers for local distribution, it ventured into publishing law books in 1950.

 

Three years later, they joined textbook publication starting with high school titles and thereafter elementary and pre-elementary textbook publications. A sister company, Rex Printing Company, Inc. (RPCI) was established in 1973 to cater to the printing needs of the ever-growing RBSI Publications.

 

Over the year, RBSI has put up branches nationwide. These are strategically located in the following key areas: Cebu (1986), Shaw (1989), Makati , Davao (1991), Iloilo (1993), Cubao (1994), Cagayan De Oro, Pangasinan (1997), Legaspi City (1998), Rockwell, Cavite (1999), General Santos City (2000), Cabanatuan, Pampanga (2001), Tacloban (2002), Naga, Dasmariñas (2003) and Tuguegarao (2004).

 

Now steadily, in the millennium, RBSI operates extensively on seven different publication domains manned by highly skilled and competent marketing associates who take care of the company’s diverse clientele. These divisions are as follows: The Educational Materials Division (EMD) for Private School Textbooks, The Government Materials Division (GMD) for Public School Textbooks and Reference Materials, The Tertiary Materials Division (TMD) for College Textbooks, the Legal Materials Division (LMD) for Law books, and the Rex Crown Publications for Instructional Materials, Journals Materials Division (JMD) and Marketing Services Division (MSD).

 

To date RBSI is a happy fusion of an innovate management team and topnotch production, marketing, operations professionals, and FILIPINO authors and writers who ceaselessly reinvent themselves for the further improvement of the company’s product lines and services. The end result is empowered educators, learners and readers in all over the archipelago.

 

In 1973, within Rex Printing Company, Inc. (RPCI), the Rex Commercial Division was organized to respond to the printing needs of its quality-conscious clientele. In 1994, the Rex Oasis of Arts and Culture (ROAC) Foundation was established not only to help develop and preserve our cultural heritage but also to provide outreach programs with preferential attention to depressed areas necessitating educational materials assistance.

 

Rex Crown Publications, Inc. (RCPI) was established in October 2003 and became fully operational in February 2004. The new corporate entity was formed with the objective of coming up with curricula-based non-textbook materials.