scrollThomas Bata junior went into exile in March 1939, then landed in Canada and built a factory there in Batawa; Jan Antonin Bata went into exile in June 1939 and then, when he was forced to leave the USA in 1941, he settled in Brazil in the newly founded Batatuba; Jan A. Bata lost influence over the management of the company and since 1941 the work of Thomas Bata junior has been growing in this direction