Fawaz Footwear Pvt. Ltd.

We’re over at 2 (487) Kilpauk Garden Road in Kilpauk. Fawaz Footwear Pvt. Ltd. is where we make shoes and sandals. Kilpauk is a nice enough area, though the road can get a bit crowded during the school run. Our place isn't a showroom; it's a working unit. We have stacks of leather and rubber soles piled up in the corners. Making shoes is a specific kind of work. It’s noisy and there’s a lot of glue involved, so it smells a certain way. We’ve all gotten used to it over the years. We aren't a big international brand with a million employees. We’re a smaller team that knows how a shoe should be put together. We spend our time at the benches, clicking the leather and lasting the shoes. There’s a lot of back-and-forth between the guys on the floor about how to fix a particular issue with a batch. We don’t have a website with a lot of fancy photos. Most of our business happens because people know where we are and what we do. We drink a lot of tea and try to stay cool when the humidity in Chennai picks up. It’s simple work, really. We don’t try to make it sound like more than it is. We just want to make sure the shoes are sturdy and that we finish the work on time. The fans are always humming, and there is usually a radio playing somewhere in the back.