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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.
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.
By 1936, the plant was phased out. In May 1931, Baťa sold his business interests to his brother Jan Antonín Baťa, who founded Batanagar, Bata's first permanent shoe factory in India. The Bata brand was launched on 24 August 1894 in Zlín, then in Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic). The company first established itself in India in ...
The brand thrived alongside, and fought head on with the market leader Bata. The shops and the products between the two brands were extremely similar. When Bata launched one style, Carona quickly followed suit. Both Bata and Carona were instrumental in popularizing canvas shoes in India, which were popular among younger children at that time. [2]
Bata India Limited’s (NSE:BATAINDIA) latest earnings announcement in March 2018 showed that the business gained from a robust tailwind, eventuating to a double-digit earnings growth of 38.7%.
A Metro station in Delhi, Bata Chowk, is also named after him. Anticipating the Second World War, Baťa's son Thomas J. Bata, along with over 100 families from Czechoslovakia, moved to Canada in 1939. There he developed the Bata Shoe Company of Canada, founding the factory town of Batawa, Ontario.
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Another legacy is Batanagar in Kolkata, India, which originally housed the shoe factory and the clerical employees, and today is a booming condominium development maintaining the name. Baťa successfully established and ran the new Canadian operations and during the war years, he sought to maintain the necessary coordination with as many of the ...