The story
Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe was founded in 1991, initially publishing a series of mathematics textbooks and notebooks. In 2014, it opened its offices in Alchemia, a complex of buildings in Oliwa, taking up more than 2,500 square metres (27,000 ft2) of floor area. In 2020, a controversy erupted over the words of the disco polo song "Przez Twe oczy zielone" by Zenon Martyniuk appearing in a textbook for Polish class published by GWO.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland, GWO was one of the publishers supported by the city government of Gdańsk. In March 2020, the company gained a new owner, Ewa Makowska-Smolińska, although the former owner, Małgorzata Dobrowolska, remained in majority control of the company along with her two sons.
From Wikipedia’s article on Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3