Thomas Bata

Thomas Bata founded an important world famous shoe company in Zlín (Czech Republic) before the Second World War. His employees earned good salaries and they were really very devoted to their work.

Bata invested almost all his money back into the business and into his home town - Zlín. He built both a hospital and very convenient houses for his workers. He also enlarged and modernized his factory and expended his company all over the world. Both he and his family were famous for living wery modestly.

His efforts were stopped by the Second World War and later by the confiscation after the voting in 1948, when the Communist Party came into power. The Bata family emigrated and continued the shoe business abroad.