Tmi Colman

Tmi Colman is located right in the thick of things at 3957-58 Naya Bazar. If you’ve ever been to Naya Bazar, you know it’s a crowded, busy place where there’s always something moving. Our spot is tucked in among all the other shops and warehouses that have been here for decades. It’s a traditional kind of business environment where we spend most of our time dealing with the daily trade. The floors are a bit worn down from years of feet walking over them, and the walls are lined with shelves full of ledgers and samples. There’s no fancy air conditioning here, just the ceiling fans spinning away while we talk to customers and vendors. It gets pretty loud with the porters moving sacks around and the rickshaws shouting outside. We handle a variety of goods, mostly the kind of things you’d expect to find in a big wholesale market like this. Every morning starts with sweeping out the dust and checking the prices for the day. We drink a lot of chai throughout the day to keep going. It’s the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else’s business, and we’ve built some long-standing relationships with the neighbors. We don't have a big marketing team or anything like that, just a few of us making sure the books balance and the customers get what they came for in the middle of all the chaos of the market.