Sparx Men's Running Shoes(BEST BUY)

Sparx offers an amazing range of shoes and sandals that embodies the spirit of today's youth.
Available in awe-inspiring colours and designs, it reflects verve and dynamism as an iconic youth brand and is symbolic of a wholehearted zest for life.
Sparx has now grown into a large-scale entrepreneurship catering to the basic needs of the quintessential Indian citizen.
Today, the company manufactures over 3 lakh pairs of footwear per day, which approximately adds up to over 10 million pairs per year.
Each pair is given thorough attention by the dedicated and skilled employees working at the 10 state-of-the-art manufacturing units in Northern India.

These must have shoes are professionally crafted from high quality material, which makes them long lasting and sturdy.
Featuring lace up closure, these shoes provide you the luxury of comfort and elegance combined.
This pair is ideal for both men and boys and is really comfortable while playing.

Sparx is a internationally renowned brand owned by bata. This brand is trustworthy and is very popular in Asian and Indian market.

Embodying the spirit of youth, Sparx gives you that extra confidence and motivation to move ahead in life. Best known for its sturdy and superb designs, Sparx is an iconic youth brand and is quite popular among those who dare to explore and test their limits. Grab our new online exclusive articles ~ SX9026 & SX9027 which comes with extra cushioning and trendy new designs with unbelievalble pricing.



About the brand

Sparx(Bata owned company) is a family-owned global footwear and fashion accessory manufacturer and retailer with acting headquarters located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Organized into three business units: Bata Europe, based in Italy; Bata Emerging Market (Asia, Pacific, Africa and La tin America), based in Singapore, and Bata Protective (worldwide B2B operations), based in the Netherlands, the organization has a retail presence of over 5200 retail stores in more than 70 countries and production facilities in 18 countries.

The T. & A. Baťa Shoe Company was founded on the 24th of August 1894 in Zlín (Moravia, today the Czech Republic) by Tomáš Baťa (Czech: [ˈtomaːʃ ˈbaca]), his brother Antonín and his sister Anna, whose family had been cobblers for generations. The company employed 10 full-time employees with a fixed work schedule and a regular weekly wage, a rare find in its time.


In the summer of 1895, Tomáš found himself facing financial difficulties, and debts abounded. To overcome these serious setbacks, Tomáš decided to sew shoes from canvas instead of leather. This type of shoe became very popular and helped the company grow to 50 employees. Four years later, Bata installed its first steam-driven machines, beginning a period of rapid modernisation. In 1904, Tomáš read a newspaper article about some machines being made in America. Therefore, he took three workers and journeyed to Lynn, a shoemaking city outside Boston, in order to study and understand the American system of mass production. After six months Tomáš returned to Zlin and he introduced mechanized production techniques that allowed the Bata Shoe Company to become one of the first mass producers of shoes in Europe. Its first mass product, the “Batovky,” was a leather and textile shoe for working people that was notable for its simplicity, style, light weight and affordable price. Its success helped fuel the company’s growth. After Antonin's death in 1908, Tomas brought two of his younger brothers, Jan and Bohuš, into the business. Initial export sales and the first ever sales agencies began in Germany in 1909, followed by the Balkans and the Middle East. Bata shoes were considered to be excellent quality, and were available in more styles than had ever been offered before. By 1912, Bata was employing 600 full-time workers, plus another several hundred who worked out of their homes in neighbouring villages.


In 1914, with the outbreak of World War I, the company had a significant development due to military orders. From 1914 to 1918 the number of Baťa’s employees increased ten times. The company opened its own stores in Zlín, Prague, Liberec, Vienna and Pilsen, among other towns.

In the global economic slump that followed World War I, the newly created country of Czechoslovakia was particularly hard hit. With its currency devalued by 75%, demand for products dropped, production was cut back, and unemployment was at an all-time high. Tomáš Baťa responded to the crisis by cutting the price of Bata shoes in half. The company’s workers agreed to a temporary 40 percent reduction in wages; in turn, Bata provided food, clothing, and other necessities at half-price. He also introduced one of the first profit sharing initiative transforming all employees into associates with a shared interest in the company's success (today's equivalent of performance-based incentives and stock option.
Consumer response to the price drop was dramatic. While most competitors were forced to close because of the crisis in demand between 1923 and 1925, Bata was expanding as demand for the inexpensive shoes grew rapidly. The Bata Shoe Company increased production and hired more workers. Zlín became a veritable factory town, a "Bataville" covering several hectares. On the site were grouped tanneries, a brickyard, a chemical factory, a mechanical equipment plant and repair shop, workshops for the production of rubber, a paper pulp and cardboard factory (for production of packaging), a fabric factory (for lining for shoes and socks), a shoe-shine factory, a power plant and a farming activities to cover both food and energy needs... Horizontal and vertical integration. Workers, "Batamen", and their families had at their disposal all the necessary everyday life services: housing, shops, schools, hospital, etc.

Bata also began to build towns and factories outside of Czechoslovakia (Poland, Latvia, Romania, Switzerland, France) and to diversify into such industries as tanning (1915), the energy industry (1917), agriculture (1917), forest farming (1918), newspaper publishing (1918), brick manufacturing (1918), wood processing (1919), the rubber industry (1923), the construction industry (1924), railway and air transport (1924), book publishing (1926), the film industry (1927), food processing (1927), chemical production (1928), tyre manufacturing (1930), insurance (1930), textile production (1931), motor transport (1930), sea transport (1932), and coal mining (1932). Airplane manufacturing (1934), synthetic fibre production (1935), and river transport (1938). In 1923 the company boasted 112 branches.

In 1924 Tomáš Baťa displayed his business acumen by figuring out how much turnover he needed to make with his annual plan, weekly plans and daily plans. Baťa utilized four types of wages – fixed rate, individual order based rate, collective task rate and profit contribution rate. He also set what became known as Baťa prices – numbers ending with a nine rather than with a whole number. His business skyrocketed. Soon Baťa found himself the fourth richest person in Czechoslovakia. From 1926 to 1928 the business blossomed as productivity rose 75 percent and the number of employees increased by 35 percent. In 1927 production lines were installed, and the company had its own hospital. By the end of 1928, the company’s head factory was composed of 30 buildings. Then the entrepreneur created educational organizations such as the Baťa School of Work and introduced the five-day work week. In 1930 he established a stunning shoe museum that maps shoe production from the earliest times to the contemporary age throughout the world. By 1931 there were factories in Germany, England, the Netherlands, Poland and in other countries.

In 1932, at the age of 56, Tomáš Baťa died in a plane crash during take off under bad weather conditions at Zlín Airport. Control of the company was passed to his half-brother, Jan, and his son, Thomas John Bata, who would go on to lead the company for much of the twentieth century guided by their father’s moral testament: the Bata Shoe company was to be treated not as a source of private wealth, but as a public trust, a means of improving living standards within the community and providing customers with good value for their money. Promise was made to pursue the entrepreneurial, social and humanitarian ideals of their father. The Baťa company was apparently the first big enterprise to systematically utilise aircraft for company purposes, including rapid transport of lesser personnel on business like delivery of maintenance men and spares to a location where needed, originating the practice of business flying.

At the time of Tomáš's death, the Bata company employed 16,560 people, maintained 1,645 shops and 25 enterprises. Jan Baťa, following the plans laid down by Tomáš Baťa before his death, expanded the company more than six times its original size throughout Czechoslovakia and the world. Plants in Britain, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Kenya, Canada and the United States, followed in the decade. In India, Batanagar was settled near Calcutta and accounted from the late 1930s nearly 7500 Batamen. The Bata model fitted anywhere, creating, for example, canteens for vegetarians in India. In exchange, the demands on workers were as strong as in Europe: "Be courageous. The best in the world is not good enough for us. Loyalty gives us prosperity & happiness. Work is a moral necessity!" Bata India was incorporated as Bata Shoe Company Pvt. Ltd in 1931and went on to become Bata India Ltd. in 1973. Batanagar factory is the first Indian shoe manufacturing unit to receive the ISO 9001 certification in 1993.


As of 1934, the firm owned 300 stores in North America, a thousand in Asia, more than 4,000 in Europe. In 1938, the Group employed just over 65,000 people worldwide, including 36% outside Czechoslovakia and had stakes in the tanning, agriculture, newspaper publishing, railway and air transport, textile production, coal mining and aviation realms.

Specification

Material Type: PU & Mesh

Lifestyle: Casual

Closure Type: Lace-Up

Toe Style: Round Toe

Warranty Type: Manufacturer

Sole Material: Phylon
Product warranty against manufacturing defects: 90 days


Care Instructions: Allow your pair of shoes to air and de-odorize at a regular basis, this also helps them retain their natural shape; use shoe bags to prevent any stains or mildew; dust any dry dirt from the surface using a clean cloth, do not use polish or shiner

Pros:

• It has a good look
• light weight. They are very light weight on your feet and great for running
• value for money. It's not always you find offers like this!
• it's comfortable. The air vents helps your feet to stay drier.

Cons:

• The sole is bit harder
• Stitches are not much tight
• The size runs a bit smaller than normal. Try to get the size higher
• available for only this color  under this price

The outer uppers and cushioned inner linings are hold up extremely well. Your feet feel like they are just encased in a firm hug yet the ride is not too soft. You can feel the road which instinctively gives me confidence when running . You don't feel like going to roll the ankle because the shoe is very cushy and non supportive(which has been a major concern for me in the past with other shoes)

Another aspect I like about these shoe is the absence of any overlay design on the upper mesh that covers your forefeet (the widest part of the upper). The feet need room to move and expand a bit as you run and it doesn't like to be in a shoe that has too much overlay detail(e.g some models of Nike and even Puma). Just mesh allows for more air flow over the top of shoe and more freedom for the feet to move around.

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