Thomas J Bata ran the Bata shoe empire during the second half of the 20th century Thomas J Bata, who died in Toronto on August 31 aged 93, ran the Bata shoe empire during the second half of the 20th ...

Left to right: Thomas G. Bata with his father late Thomas J. Bata pictured in front of late Tomáš Bat'a's portrait. Photo: WikimediaCommons We meet on a chilly December morning in New Delhi ...

Thomas Bata, 93, the Czech-born head of the worldwide family shoe empire that bears his name, died Sept. 1 at a hospital in Toronto. No cause of death was reported. Mr. Bata's father, Tomas, founded ...

Sonja Bata has spent nearly a lifetime amassing the collection of shoes that became the foundation for a museum in Toronto, though the almost 90-year-old doesn't see herself as any sort of style icon.

Thomas Bata, owner of the global shoe corporation that bears his name, has died in Toronto at age 93. Leslie Tenenbaum, the company's general counsel, said Mr. Bata died early Monday in Sunnybrook ...

Thomas Bata, owner of the family-owned world-famous shoe company, died here Monday. A great friend of India, Bata was 93. Thomas Bata, owner of the family-owned world-famous shoe company, died here ...

Thomas J Bata ran the Bata shoe empire during the second half of the 20th century Thomas J Bata, who died in Toronto on August 31 aged 93, ran the Bata shoe empire during the second half of the 20th ...

THOMAS Bata, who has died aged 93, was the head of the worldwide family shoe empire that bears his name. Bata's father, Tomas, founded the shoe empire in Zlin in 1894, and it would later swell into ...