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Bata India was incorporated as Bata Shoe Company Pvt. Ltd in 1931 [15] and went on to become Bata India Ltd. in 1973. The Batanagar factory was the first Indian shoe manufacturing unit to receive the ISO 9001 certification in 1993.
Baťa held a meeting in East Tilbury near London, and the decision was taken that Bata Development Limited in England would become the service headquarters of the Bata Shoe Organization. In 1946, Bata operated 38 factories and 2,168 company shops; they produced 34 million pairs of shoes and employed 34,000 people.
Ouderland was born in Amsterdam on 6 December 1917. He left his studies when he was 17 to work as a shoe-shiner and later joined Bata Shoe Company.In 1936, Ouderland enlisted in the Dutch National Service before the Nazi invasion in Netherlands.
He successfully expanded into new markets throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Under his leadership, the Bata Shoe Organization had unprecedented growth. It became the world's largest manufacturer and marketer of footwear selling over 300 million pairs of shoes each year and employing over 80,000 people. [citation needed]
After the 1932 death of his half-brother Tomáš, who had founded the company, Jan Antonin became the head of Bata Corporation which had been converted to a joint stock company, Baťa a.s., a year prior, [citation needed] and was based in Zlín. At the time, the organization employed 16,560 workers that maintained 1,645 shops and 25 enterprises.
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It is one of the places named after the multinational shoe company Bata. There is a plant of the Bata company here. The employees mostly reside in Batanagar. Shoe-making is a predominant cottage industry in Batanagar, with houses and families dedicated to manufacturing shoes from leather, PVC, jute, etc. for shoe brands in India.
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