Tomas Bata Statue
In front of the shoemaking factory
Weights 330kg and measures 2 meters. Though Tomas Bata was the founder of several of the Bata companies including T&A Bata of Zlin. The assets of T&A Bata were purchased by Tomas' brother Jan Antonin Bata in 1931 and the company was reformed under the name Bata a.s., Zlin. Tomas Sr. who died in 1932 had no connection with the creation of Batovany in Slovakia in 1938-39 later renamed Partizanske in 1948. Batovany was the creation of his younger brother Jan Antonin Bata.