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Toronto-based design firm BDP Quadrangle has fulfilled a long-held dream of the late Sonja Bata of Bata Shoes fame with the transformation of the decommissioned Bata Shoe Factory in Batawa. Designed ...

The implosion of the five-story, 100,000 square-foot shoe warehouse along the Harford County waterfront today will make way for a $50 million office complex expected to be the home of 2,000 jobs. The ...

Everybody loves a good demolition. People pulled their kids out of school, offices shut down, police closed the roads and at least one company planned a party, all as part of a 13-second event ...

Iconic footwear brand Bata has just made a major investment by buying a million dollars worth of the latest manufacturing technology for its only New Zealand factory, based in Wellington. The new ...

LONG before Thurrock became known for Lakeside, East Tilbury was already somewhat famous for Bata shoe factory. Founded in 1932 (it closed in 2005) its company town set-up was unique in Britain, ...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - When Tomas Bata turned the Czech town of Zlin into a global shoe capital and created a "utopian" factory village for his workers almost a century ago, his red-brick architecture won ...