The company required the factories to operate under sound labor conditions, pay fair wages, and follow local labor standards. A code of conduct was signed by all factories. In addition to its production staff routinely visiting the factories to ensure that they were maintaining good working standards, third parties annually audited the factories. The company's original line of alpargata shoes was expanded to include children's shoes, leather shoes, cordones youth shoes, boats, and wedges. In January 2009 the company collaborated with Element Skateboards to create a line of shoes, skate decks, and long boards. For each pair of TOMS Element shoes and/or skate-board one of the same was given to children in the at the Indigo Skate Camp in the village of Isithumba in Durban, South Africa.