In the year : 1984 The people : a group of teas business professionals,with long years of experience in tea planting, management, sales and marketing - in British owned tea plantations. When the pattern of ownership changed to Indian family businesses, they decided to use the change-over as an opportunity to go into the tea business for themselves - start a tea consultancy service and tea exports.The Company Al Shokur (India) Private Limited Named after the freedom fighter father of one of its founder members,

Al Shokur has in the nineteen years since its inception, established a worldwide network of operations. It has done extensive work in Vietnam,Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya, Mauritius, Uganda, Madagascar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Egypt, the Gulf States, Iran and of ofcourse India.