Tyford Tea Factory

Our office is over at 113 Pantheon Road, right in the Egmore area. Even though it says Tyford Tea Factory, this is more of our administrative side where we handle the logistics and the sales part of the tea business. Egmore is a busy part of the city, so there’s always something happening outside the windows. The building itself has seen better days, but it's sturdy and serves us well. We have rooms filled with tea samples in little tins, and the whole place smells like dried leaves. It's a scent you never really get tired of. We spend a lot of our day coordinating with the actual factory sites and making sure the tea is being processed right. It involves a lot of back-and-forth communication. Sometimes the phones don't stop ringing all afternoon. We aren't very formal here; you'll usually find us in comfortable clothes just trying to get through the pile of work on our desks. The floors are old tile, and the fans overhead hum all day long to keep the heat away. We don't have a big marketing department or anyone to write fancy brochures. We just know tea, and we know how to get it from the fields to the shops. It’s been our life for a long time, and we’re quite content being based here in Egmore, even with the traffic and the noise of the city right outside our door. It’s just how we work.