Carl Franz Bally (October 24, 1821 – August 5, 1899) was a Swiss businessman who founded the Bally Shoe company in 1851. October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Bally Shoe company was founded as Bally & Co in 1851 by Carl Franz Bally (1821-1899) and his brother Fritz in the basement of their family home in Schönenwerd in the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. ...

Carl Franz Bally and his brother Fritz founded the shoe manufacturing firm "Bally & Co." in the basement of their family home in Schönenwerd in the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. In 1854, they moved operations to a small factory in the village but Fritz Bally left the fledgling business and Carl Franz Bally carried on alone under the corporate name "C.F. Bally." By the 1860s he was employing more than 500 people. Within another decade he had built an international reputation for quality and design and expanded operations outside of his native Switzerland to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, and Paris, France. Solothurn is a canton of Switzerland. ... Buenos Aires (BWEH-naus EYE-ress, literally Good Winds in Spanish, but more akin to Fair Winds, as in navigation) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest in South America. ... Montevideo, Minnesota, Montevideo is the capital, chief port and largest city in Uruguay (population 1. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Carl Franz Bally died in Basel in 1899 and his sons took over the business. Basel (English traditionally: Basle , German: Basel , French Bâle , Italian Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (188,000 inhabitants in the canton of Basel-City as of 2004; the 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second...