Jaisreem Exports

Our place is at No. 28/16 on Vedathalankadu 4th Street. It’s right off Mangalam Road in the Karuvampalayam area. Jaisreem Exports has been running out of this building for a while now. It’s a bit of a maze getting here if you don't know these side streets well. The building is painted a bright yellow, or at least it was when we first moved in. Now it's faded and peeling a bit. We spend most of our time in the back where the packing happens. There’s always the sound of tape dispensers and cardboard boxes being moved around on the floor. It’s a bit chaotic during the peak season when everything is due at once. We have a few local people from the neighborhood helping us out. We don't have a big corporate culture or meetings. We just come in, do the work, and go home. Sometimes we stay late when a shipment needs to go out by morning. The office part is just a corner with a computer that’s a bit slow and makes a humming noise. We have piles of registers everywhere because we still like writing things down by hand. The tea stall at the corner of Mangalam Road is where we get our morning break. It’s a busy neighborhood with a lot of small units like ours. We just try to stay on top of our orders. It’s not a glamorous job, but it’s what we know. We’ve had the same neighbors for years and we all look out for each other.