1930

The company’s production facilities were transferred to a five-day working week (45 hours); Tomas Bata published the intention to modify water management on the Morava River and the vision of connecting the rivers Elbe, Danube and Odra
A new field of business – insurance
A company footwear museum was opened, a zoo was established near Zlin Castle; the Zlin experimental schools took over the publishing of the pedagogical magazine “Creative School”; vocational secondary education – with the opening of evening courses at the Uherske Hradiste Business Academy in 1930, the formation of the Zlin Business Academy began (opened in 1937)