Articles tagged 'shoes'
| Title | Headline | Summary | Media | Date | hf:tags | |
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 | Baťa | The cobbler who conquered the world | Tomáš Baťa built the world’s greatest shoe empire out of a tiny family workshop by using revolutionary methods that still find application today. From his high-rise, red-brick headquarters in Zlín, Baťa oversaw an empire of 1,825 outlets in Czechoslovakia and another 660 across the globe. Entire towns – in Europe, India and South America – are still named after him. | Works That Work | 2015-11-15 | business czech czechoslovakia shoes |