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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 ...
Thomas J. Bata. 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 ...
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.
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 ...
Architect (s) Vladimír Karfík. Baťa's Skyscraper ( Czech: Baťův mrakodrap ), also known as Building No. 21, is a skyscraper in Zlín, Czechia. It is 77.5 metres high and has sixteen floors. It was the administration building of the Bata Shoes factory, a company that was based in the city. Now it is headquarters of the Zlín Region .
Tomas Bata University in Zlín (TBU), ( Czech Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně ), is a Czech public university in the Moravian city of Zlín, comprising six faculties offering courses in technology, economics, humanities, arts and health care. [4] The university was named after the entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa, the founder of the shoe industry ...
The Bata shoe factory in East Tilbury is what remains of an industrial estate in Essex, England, which produced shoes for over 70 years. Founded in 1932 by Tomáš Baťa, the factory was "one of the most important planned landscapes in the East of England" in the 20th century. [1] [2] The factory closed in 2005.
Thomas Bata. Thomas Bata may refer to: Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), founder of Bata Shoes. Thomas J. Bata (1914–2008), Tomáš's son who led the corporation through the 1980s. Thomas G. Bata (born 1948), Tomáš's grandson who currently leads Bata Shoes.