And it is what transformed the young, shaggy-haired, rope-bracelet-wearing entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie into a visionary business ... Toms Shoes based on the simple idea that for every pair of his ...

It all started with simple canvas ... The shoes and the charitable business philosophy took off, becoming more and more popular in the last few years. As of September 2010, Toms customers have ...

That's because TOMS had the perfect product. Its one for one donation model made buying one of it's iconic canvas shoes an act of charity. And for a while, that really worked. By 2013, TOMS was ...

A former contestant on the reality show “The Amazing Race,” he discovered the comfy canvas ... Toms’ groundbreaking (and much copied) one-for-one business model that for every pair of shoes ...

The for-profit firm will apply what founder Blake Mycoskie called its “one-for-one” model to hand ... its founding in 2006, Toms has sold more than 1 million pairs of its signature canvas footwear and ...

TOMS, whose canvas slip-ons became favored by an international style set, is brewing up a whole new facet to its buy-one-give-one business model. Founder Blake Mycoskie announced TOMS’ foray ...

I’m increasingly annoyed by Toms ... shoes or whatever other freebies come your way thanks to the save-the-world types. That’s why I’m annoyed by Toms and would like to see its business ...

One of the many things that sets this generation apart is its insistence that business be about ... For every pair of canvas shoes the company sold, Toms would donate another pair to children ...

The head of an organization that works with for-profit social enterprises says in a New York Times blog post that the buy-one, give-one approach popularized by footwear firm Toms Shoes risks ...

Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for TOMS Shoes Of course ... doing as its business has diversified and expanded — to those in need, and it may use the one-for-one model for certain ...