Career
After his half-brother Tomas" death (1932) January Antonin Bata headed the Baťa company and in 1931 it became for the first time a joint stock company – Baťa a.s.) based in Zlín, former Czechoslovakia. Under January Bata"s administration implemented growth plans for the Baťa business and expanded further – into shoe machinery, tires, textiles, chemicals, mines, canals, a railway, film studios, manufacture of airplanes, department stores. When January became owner and chief executive officer, the Baťa organization employed 16,560 people, maintained 1,645 shops and 25 enterprises.
Most of it in Czechoslovakian lands (15,770 employees, 1,500 shops, 25 enterprises) and (2 enterprises, 250 employees).
The international businesses of the Baťa company consisted of 790 employees, 132 shops and 20 international enterprises. During his and Cipera"s management the Czechoslovakian part of the business more than doubled its size to 38,000 employees, 2,200 shops, and 70 enterprises.
In, he grew the business from 250 employees to 12,340 and 8 enterprises. Before World World War II January and his family fled the Nazis for the United States and finally settled in Brazil, where he founded several towns, including: Bataiporã, Bataguassu, Batatuba, Anaurilândia and Mariaopolis.
Up to his death, January expanded the organization more than sixfold from the date of purchase.
From 1931 to 1942, the Bata organization grew to 105,770 employees. The Baťaviles were new cities, new industrial communities, based and developed on the "ideal city" model. January Bata came up with a contest in 1935, where the ideal city designs were entered in the contest.
Zlin (Tomas and January Bata)
Otrokovice – Batov (1930−1934),
Trebíc, Czechoslovakian (1933),
Bata Canal 60 Kilometers (1935)
Zruc nad Sázavou (1938),
Sezimovo Ústí (1939)
Bošany (1931−1934)
Svit
Nové Zámy (1935)
Liptovský sv.
Mikuláš, (1938)
Baťovany (today Partizánske, 1938)
Best The Netherlands, (1933−1934)
East Tilbury (England, 1933−1934)
Hellocourt, France, (1933−1935)
Vernon, France (1935)
Neuvic, Dordogne, France (1939)
Belgium (1937)
Borovo, Croatia (1931−1935)
Möhlin, Switzerland (1933)
Chelmek, Poland (1932)
Martfü, Hungary (1941)
Batanagar (India 1934−1935)
Belcamp, Maryland United States of America, (1936−1939)
Batawa, Canada (1938−1939)
Brazil
Batatuba (1939). Mariapolis, Brazil (1941)
Bataguassu (1953)
Município de Batayporã (1963)
Município de Anaurilândia (1963)
Other Bata factories
Syria (1934)
Iraq, Baghdad (1934)
Klang, Malaya (1935)
Mansurieh (suburb of Alexandria), Egypt (1936)
Gwelo formerly Rhodesia, later Gweru, Zimbabwe, (1937)
Indonesia (1938),
Peru, Lima (1939)
Chile, Batafler (1939)
Java Island, Batavia Kalibata (1939)
Kenya, Nairobi/Limuru (1939)
India, Lahore (1939)
Marocco, Cassablanca (1939)
Belgian Congo (1940)
Bolivia, Quillacollo (1940)
Senegal, Dakar French West Africa (1940)
Guatemala (1940)
Haiti, Portuguese-au-Prince (1940)
Vietnam, Haiphong (1940)
Philippines (1940).
