LIKE one of its best-known products, 'cooling water', home-grown Wen Ken group is one cool operation - free of the heat and internal strife sometimes associated with family-run firms.

For more than 70 years, Wen Ken has quietly and efficiently produced its ubiquitous Three Legs brand of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products here.

These include cooling water, a mineral preparation intended to remove 'heatiness' from the body.

Read Elizabeth Wilmot's full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.