TOMS Shoes

Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes.

TOMS Shoes rethinks its ‘buy one, give one’ model of helping the needy

TOMS Shoes was one of the first to pioneer the “guilt-free” consumption model. When you buy a pair of TOMS shoes, the California-based company will give a pair to a child in need. Aid watchers criticized this “band-aid” effort to fight poverty. Now TOMS is changing its style a bit.

TOMS Shoes: Does Buy-One-Give-One Work?

The World

Blake Mycoskie