Tomáš Baťa
Czech businessman
Died when: 56 years 100 days (675 months)Star Sign: Aries
Tomáš Bata (Czech pronunciation: ['toma?? 'baca]) (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.
His half-brother Jan AntonÃn Bata took over his company, expanding it during the Great Depression.World War II resulted in much destruction of his businesses.
After Communist governments were established in Czechoslovakia and other nations of Eastern Europe, they nationalized the Bata enterprises, taking over the company.
Tomáš's son Thomas J.Bata rebuilt and expanded shoe manufacturing in the company name after moving to Canada in 1939, at the time of the Nazi invasion and annexation of Czechoslovakia.
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