Shree Vinayak Tea Enterprises

We’ve been here on Sarat Bose Road for a while now, tucked away on the second floor of 12C. It’s a busy part of town and the traffic noise usually reaches up to us, but you get used to it after a few years. Most days we are just busy with tea samples and paperwork. There’s always a few sacks of tea sitting in the corner and the smell of raw leaves is pretty strong in the mornings. It’s not a fancy office or anything like that. We have some old desks and chairs that have seen better days. People come in to talk about shipments and we just handle the day-to-day stuff as it comes. Sometimes the lift doesn't work right, so we end up taking the stairs, which is quite a climb with boxes. We don't really do much advertising or anything. Most people find us because they know the area or someone told them where we are located. We just try to keep things moving and make sure the tea gets where it needs to go. It’s a lot of phone calls and checking ledgers. The fans keep spinning all day long to keep the humidity down. It’s just how we work here. Nothing too complicated, just a small group of us trying to keep the business going in this old building. It is a bit cramped when we get a big delivery, but we make it work somehow.