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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 ...
Service Industries Limited (SIL) ( Urdu: سروس انڈسٹریز لمیٹڈ ), doing business as Servis, is a Pakistani shoes and tire manufacturer which is based in Lahore, Pakistan. [ 2][ 3] Service factories are located in the Pakistani cities of Gujrat, Muridke, Nooriabad, Raiwind, Negombo, Sri Lanka. [ 3] The company had humble ...
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.
Batapur is a town near the city of Lahore, Pakistan.It was established as a residence for the workers of a Bata shoe factory. The nearest airport is the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, an approximately twenty-minute drive on the Lahore Ring Road, which was destroyed during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and again during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
Sindhi Mojari. Sindhi Mojari (or simply Mojari) is a type of handcrafted footwear produced in the Pakistan. They are traditionally made by artisans mostly using tanned leather. The uppers are made of one piece of leather or textile embroidered and embellished with brass nails, cowry shells, mirrors, bells and ceramic beads.
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 Shoe Museum. 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 chairperson. [8]
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