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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.
The Nest Children's Home, which offers care services for children whose mothers are imprisoned, is located in Limuru town. Limuru has a rich history tied with the railway, the tea industry (especially with major expansion from the 1920s), and the Bata shoe factory and head office.
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.
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. World War ...
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By 1975, the organization included 98 operating companies in 89 countries, employing 90,000 people; in the 90 factories, 250 million pairs of shoes were produced annually and the company operated over 5,000 shops. The Bata Shoe Organization, whose guiding principle was "Our customer – Our Master" was the largest of its kind in the world.
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.
Graves of Sonja and Thomas Bata at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Also in the 1940s, she began collecting shoes and studying their history. In 1979, she endowed the Bata Shoe Museum Foundation. The Bata Shoe Museum, established in 1995, is the world's largest shoe museum, [6] and the core collection is attributed to Bata. [7] She was the museum's ...