The shoe company associated with the “One for One” model is TOMS.
Entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS in 2006 after visiting Argentina and seeing children without shoes. He adapted the alpargata, a simple canvas slip-on popular in Argentina, for the North American market and built the original business around donating a pair of shoes for every pair purchased.
That buy-one-give-one approach became closely identified with TOMS and helped make social-impact branding a mainstream business idea. Early donations went to children in Argentina and later expanded to countries including Ethiopia, South Africa, Haiti, and Guatemala. TOMS also applied related giving concepts to eyewear, supporting eye care and glasses programs.
A common mix-up is Warby Parker, which is known for a comparable “buy one, give one” approach involving eyeglasses rather than shoes. Another important historical nuance is that TOMS changed its model in 2019, moving away from a literal one-for-one shoe donation toward broader giving funded by a portion of sales. The quiz answer remains TOMS because the question refers to the model that made the company famous.