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 Sri Lankan government launched a major military-style police operation on Tuesday against retrenched workers occupying the Bata shoe factory at Ratmalana on the outskirts of Colombo. More than 400 ...

Nearly three months after Sri Lankan Bata shoe factory workers launched a bitter fight to defend their jobs, the Commerce and Industry Workers Union (CIWU) is moving to sell out the struggle. Union ...

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 ...