Dalmia Tea Plantation & Industries Ltd.

130 Cotton Street is where you’ll find the office for Dalmia Tea Plantation & Industries Ltd. It is an old part of the city, and you can really feel that when you walk up the stairs. The building has been there forever, it seems. We deal with tea, so there is often that faint smell of dried leaves hanging in the air, which isn’t a bad thing at all. The rooms are high-ceilinged and sometimes a bit drafty in the winter, but we have our heaters. We don't spend money on new-fangled furniture; we use what has worked for years. Our desks are heavy wood and the filing cabinets are full. People come in and out all day, mostly regulars who know the way. Cotton Street is always packed with people and carts, so it can be a bit of a struggle just to get to the front door some mornings. But once you’re inside, it’s a bit calmer. We spend our time checking on the shipments and making sure the accounts are right. It’s a lot of manual work still, writing things down and checking them twice. We aren't trying to be the biggest or anything, we just want to get the tea where it needs to go. It’s a simple business at heart, even if the logistics get messy sometimes. We just focus on the daily chores and keep going.