Milan Trading Co.

Milan Trading Co. has been located in Bagaria House for a long time. We are at 31/33 in Chewool Wadi, right off Kalbadevi Road. This whole area is packed with traders, and we are just one of them. The lanes are narrow and always full of people carrying goods on their backs or on handcarts. It’s the heart of the market. Our office is more like a functional space for meetings and keeping our ledgers. We trade in various commodities. It’s a lot of face-to-face talk with other merchants. We don't really do much online stuff; it’s mostly old-school business. You come in, you check the goods, you talk about the price. It’s worked for us for years. The building itself is quite old and has that classic Bombay feel. We have a lot of history in these rooms. Sometimes the power goes out, and we just sit and wait. It’s part of life here. We don’t have a big marketing budget or a fancy website. Most people know us by word of mouth or because they’ve seen our name on the door for decades. It's a simple operation, really. We just buy and sell and try to stay on top of the market trends in the city. When the festival season starts, this whole area gets so crowded you can barely walk. We just hunker down in the office and try to get our work done. It's been the same for as long as I can remember.