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The Bata Corporation (known as Bata, and in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, known as Baťa, IPA: [ˈbaca]) is a multinational footwear, apparel and fashion accessories manufacturer and retailer of Moravian (Czech) origin, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. The corporation is one of the world's leading shoemakers by volume with 150 million ...
Jan Antonín Baťa. Jan Antonín Baťa (7 March 1898 – 23 August 1965) (also known as Jan Antonin Bata or Jan Bata, called the King of Shoes) was a Czech-Brazilian shoe manufacturer from Uherské Hradiště (southeastern Moravia ), half-brother of Tomáš Baťa . Together with American experts, he participated in the First Prague ...
Tomáš Baťa ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈtomaːʃ ˈbaca]) (3 April 1876 – 12 July 1932) was a Czech entrepreneur and founder of the Bata shoe company. His career was cut short when he died in a plane accident due to bad weather. Baťa's half-brother Jan Antonín Baťa took over his company, expanding it during the Great Depression.
Thomas J. Bata. Tomáš Jan Baťa, CC ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈtomaːʃ jan ˈbaca]; anglicised to Thomas J. Bata; September 17, 1914 – September 1, 2008), also known as Thomas Bata Jr. and Tomáš Baťa ml., was a Czech-Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He ran the Bata Shoe Company from the 1940s until the 80s.
Bata Shoes was founded in 1894 by Tomáš Baťa in Zlín (then Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the Czech Republic). [3] After the plea of a Tilbury clergyman to alleviate unemployment during the Great Depression [4] and in part to overcome customs tariffs on foreign products, [3] construction began in 1932 on the Bata shoe factory in East Tilbury.
Bata Shoes Head Office. Coordinates: 43.723471°N 79.333316°W. The Bata Building. The Bata Shoes Head Office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was Bata Shoes ' former headquarters. The white, pavilion-like building, designed by architect John B. Parkin and completed in 1965 was considered by many as an example of the Modern Movement in architecture.
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