There is a company called TOMS that turned four years old on Cinco de Mayo, and they are still celebrating today. This shoe company out of Venice, California sold ten th... Keep Reading

There is a company called TOMS that turned four years old on Cinco de Mayo, and they are still celebrating today. This shoe company out of Venice, California sold ten thousand pairs of the founder's version of the alpargata in their very first year of operation, and as a result, this guy returned to Argentina with his family and friends to begin to roll out phase two of his business plan. Phase two is called the Shoe Drop Tour and has expanded to remote areas of Argentina where supporters of TOMS Shoes hand deliver shoes to kids. Since their inception, TOMS has handed out over six hundred thousand pairs of shoes to children around the world. This company gave a hundred thousand pairs of shoes to the children in Haiti alone. TOMS is very unique in the world of capitalism as this organization figured out a way to be profitable and charitable at the same time. TOMS' one for one model is an example to corporations everywhere of what can be done by a company whose customers know that their loyalty means heroism. The next time you buy a pair of shoes, you should check out TOMS.