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Brand auditBata Brand Audit: The Foreign Brand India Thinks Is Its OwnBatanagar, the school shoes, the high street shop. Bata feels Indian and is not. What its own filings say about who owns it, and whether the shoes are worth it.Read the full auditWe rate it 9.4/10 (excellent) after buying and testing it ourselves. What we liked most: Built with premium genuine leather that completely eliminates bad foot odor. Could be better: The pure leather construction carries a slightly heavy physical weight.
It’s listed on Amazon, Flipkart and Myntra. The store buttons at the top of this page open each listing, so you can check today’s price and sizes there.
Insole: Padded Foam; Upper material: Leather. See Specifications above for the full details.
We score its comfort 9/10 (excellent), after using it ourselves.
Its value-for-money score is 9.5/10 (excellent): we weigh what you get against similar products we’ve tested.
No. Bata is from the Czech Republic, founded in 1894.
We have bought and tested 12 Bata products, and their average FA score is 7.8/10 (good).
We buy every product ourselves and score it out of 10 on design, material quality, comfort and value for money. The FA score is the average of those scores. No paid placements: brands can’t buy a better score.
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