Tod

Tod or TOD may refer to:

See also

Tod (unit)

Tod was a UK weight for wool. It has the alternate spelling forms of tode, todd, todde, toad, and tood.

Definition

The tod is a unit of weight for wool, usually 28 pounds, or two stone. The The tod, however, was not a national standard and could vary by British shire, ranging from 28 to 32 pounds.

1/9 Wey.

Conversion

In addition to the traditional definition in terms of pounds, the tod has historically also been considered to be 1/13th of a sack or 1/26th of a sarpler.

1 tod ≡ 28 lb

1 tod ≡ 1/9 Wey

References

Agostino Todaro

Agostino Todaro (14 January 1818 – 18 April 1892) was an Italian botanist.

He was born in Palermo, Italy, where he died. He was a professor of botany and became the director of the botanical gardens in Palermo. He published the Hortus Botanicus Panormitanus in 1876–1878.

The standard botanical author abbreviation Tod. is applied to species he described.

Main works

Tod's

Tod's Group is an Italian company which produces luxury shoes and other leather goods, and is presided over by businessman Diego Della Valle.

History

Dorino Della Valle started the shoemaking business out of a basement in the late 1920s. Diego Della Valle, Dorino's elder son, expanded the workshop and turned it into a factory that started manufacturing shoes for American department stores in the 1970s. Diego brought in innovative marketing strategies in the early 1980s, kept the handmade manufacturing process and went on to create brands of lifestyle named Tod's, Hogan and Fay. Roger Vivier, maker of high luxury shoes was acquired in the mid-1990s and developed starting in 2000. In 2003, Italian designer Bruno Frisoni was hired as Roger Vivier's Creative Director.

The Della Valle family, which owns a vast majority of the luxury maker also has stakes in RCS MediaGroup, the football team Fiorentina and other companies. All members of the family were born in the middle Italian region of Marche, and many of them continue to reside there.