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TOMS + active + krochet kids host GIVE event in irvine

July 21st, 2009 No Comments

The 3rd annual GIVE event this past weekend at the Irvine Spectrum Center in Irvine, CA was beyond a success. TOMS teamed up with Cali-based action sports retailer Active and up-and-coming non-profit Krochet Kids to create an energetic atmosphere, which featured a slew diverse live music, live murals, and 13 artists custom painting TOMS for [...]

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happy birthday, TOMS – 3 years today!

May 5th, 2009 No Comments

Over the past three years year, TOMS has given close to 150,000 pairs of shoes to children in need around the world thanks to our caring customers. Because of you, we have been able to bring attention to the need for shoes to over 4% of the world’s population.

Since Ben Katz first purchased TOMS on [...]

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march madness

March 19th, 2009 No Comments

Its been almost 3 years since our first customer purchased a pair of classic canvas TOMS from our online store, and this month, the 100,000 customer checked out at TOMSshoes.com. There wasn’t any confetti or balloons being dropped from the ceiling, but its still pretty awesome.
Also exciting this week, we hit 10,000 fans on our [...]

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falling whistles

January 26th, 2009 1 Comment

Thursday before last Sean, the founder of Falling Whistles had a house party to celebrate the opening of their new home office.

As a group of interns we all dressed up with mustaches (see picture in my previous post) and headed out for an amazing evening where we were all encouraged to express ourselves because of [...]

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put your running shoes on

December 17th, 2008 No Comments

As we revved up for the Holiday season, Blake (founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS Shoes) proposed a huge goal: “Lets reach 30,000 pairs of shoes in 30 days, to allow us to GIVE 30,000 pairs of shoes to children in Ethiopia.” After he announced the news, we all scurried back to our desks [...]

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