Fruity Flavours Enterprises

Fruity Flavours Enterprises is located over in Lower Parel, right in the Adhyaru Industrial Estate. We’re at unit number 6. If you’ve ever been to this part of Mumbai, you know how tight the streets can be. This estate has been here forever, and it feels like it. It’s a lot of concrete and heavy doors. Inside our space, it usually smells like whatever extract or flavoring we are working on that day. Sometimes it’s strong, other times you barely notice it. We aren't some big factory with robots. It’s mostly just a few of us handling the mixing and the bottles. We’ve got stacks of crates everywhere. The lift in this building is old and slow, so we spend a lot of time waiting on it. It’s a practical place for a business like ours. We don't have a receptionist or a lobby. You just come to the door and shout for someone. Lower Parel has changed a lot with all the new malls and offices, but this industrial estate stays pretty much the same. It’s gritty and loud. We spend our mornings checking inventory and the afternoons getting stuff ready for dispatch. It’s a lot of repetitive work, but it pays the bills. We don't use fancy labels for ourselves. We just make the flavors and try to get them out on time. It’s hard work, especially when the heat hits in the summer. We just keep the fans going and get on with it.