Hevea Furniture & Interiors Pvt Ltd is the largest manufacturer of wooden furniture in South India. Hevea’s experience in manufacturing furniture spans over several decades. From a small manufacturing unit, Hevea has progressed into a state of the art mass production factory manufacturing furniture styles in tune with the customers’ perception of comfort & aesthetics.
Are you importing furniture? Think before you place your next order with the foreign supplier.
With the imported furniture becoming dearer, many players in the furniture industry have come to depend on Hevea for their varied furniture requirements. Apart from getting furniture conforming to global standards, these buyers have now been saving on travel and time. There are big savings as the required minimum order quantities are smaller and ‘After Sales service’ is easily accessible. With its infrastructure and capabilities, Hevea can supply any quantity of custom designed wooden furniture in the shortest time possible- be it solid wood furniture, panel wood furniture or upholstery furniture. Hevea could well be the answer to all bulk requirements of wooden furniture.
We invite you to our factory today to explore our styles, beautiful finishes and find the furniture of your choice.
A furniture enterprise that was to become the face of furniture industry in Chennai grew from the inventiveness and courage of a teenager who single-handedly set up, manufactured and marketed his produce from his one-man workshop to British clientele way back in 1937. N P Ezhumalai contributed to his family kitty as an eleven year old, working as a helper in a furniture-making company in Rattan Bazar, Chennai. Six years later, in 1937 the boy started his own small one-man workshop, Jayabharatam, in Royapettah, near the famous Swagat Hotel, for handmade cane furniture. Endowed with grit and determination, the young man carried heavy furniture on his shoulders and on a cycle to go around town to sell his products. Soon he began supplying cane furniture to British clients in Adyar.
As business grew, Ezhumalai trained and inducted young men in his workshop. He was soon supplying furniture to south Indian clients across India through goods train. As an entrepreneur Ezhumalai was far ahead of his time. Decades ago, he outsourced artists who made sketches of furniture in their showroom, which were then printed as a catalogue and distributed free.
In the 1950s and early 1960s Jayabharatham was the only furniture workshop and showroom in Royapettah. Soon the trained young men from his workshop left to set up their own enterprises. In days to come, Royapettah High Road and the by-lanes in the vicinity acquired the pride of place in Chennai as an exclusive centre for furniture showrooms and Jayabharatham was the only reason for this remarkable emergence of a furniture hub in Chennai.
Jayabharatham became a household name in furniture transforming the culture of hospitality and lifestyle of three generations of people from the south, infusing comfort and aesthetics in their abodes, offices and other enterprises. Ezhumalai’s staff strength had gone up to 150 when he passed away in 1979. In one life-time Ezhumalai had established himself as the father of cane furniture in India and had created a furniture hub in the city of Chennai. Ezhumalai’s first son was running the cane factory after the demise of the patriarch. After laying the foundation for a furniture hub in the city of Chennai Jayabharatham stepped into the next milestone in 1986 when E. Rajendran, the younger son entered the family business, but with a new game plan and a different format. As an engineer, he understood that it was possible to mechanize in wooden furniture and that internationally, amazing advances had been made in the manufacture of wooden furniture.
E. Rajendran laid the foundation for JFA Group in 1986 and impelled the transition from handmade furniture to machine-made wooden furniture in their new showroom near Pilot theatre in Royapettah High
Road, close to the first showroom set up by his father. Today, with 78 years of experience, Jayabharatham Furniture & Appliances Group is a trailblazer in the branded furniture market and modern retail format. Offering world class furniture comparable to that of any other country, JFA has created its own furniture brands including JFA, Modfurn and Touchwood, the latter being designated to emerge as their national and global brand.
“JFA is on par with Europe, China, and Malaysia in terms of quality, material, workmanship etc.,” says E. Rajendran, the Managing Director of JFA Group. E. Rajendran is one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs of Chennai who has built an amazing furniture empire that has put Chennai on the global map. His remarkable success in creating a niche home grown retail brand single-handedly is an inspiration to aspiring young entrepreneurs.

Hevea Furniture & Interiors Pvt Ltd is the largest manufacturer of wooden furniture in South India. Hevea’s experience in manufacturing furniture spans over several decades. From a small manufacturing unit, Hevea has progressed into a state of the art mass production factory manufacturing furniture styles in tune with the customers’ perception of comfort & aesthetics.
Are you importing furniture? Think before you place your next order with the foreign supplier.
With the imported furniture becoming dearer, many players in the furniture industry have come to depend on Hevea for their varied furniture requirements. Apart from getting furniture conforming to global standards, these buyers have now been saving on travel and time. There are big savings as the required minimum order quantities are smaller and ‘After Sales service’ is easily accessible. With its infrastructure and capabilities, Hevea can supply any quantity of custom designed wooden furniture in the shortest time possible- be it solid wood furniture, panel wood furniture or upholstery furniture. Hevea could well be the answer to all bulk requirements of wooden furniture.
We invite you to our factory today to explore our styles, beautiful finishes and find the furniture of your choice.
A furniture enterprise that was to become the face of furniture industry in Chennai grew from the inventiveness and courage of a teenager who single-handedly set up, manufactured and marketed his produce from his one-man workshop to British clientele way back in 1937. N P Ezhumalai contributed to his family kitty as an eleven year old, working as a helper in a furniture-making company in Rattan Bazar, Chennai. Six years later, in 1937 the boy started his own small one-man workshop, Jayabharatam, in Royapettah, near the famous Swagat Hotel, for handmade cane furniture. Endowed with grit and determination, the young man carried heavy furniture on his shoulders and on a cycle to go around town to sell his products. Soon he began supplying cane furniture to British clients in Adyar.
As business grew, Ezhumalai trained and inducted young men in his workshop. He was soon supplying furniture to south Indian clients across India through goods train. As an entrepreneur Ezhumalai was far ahead of his time. Decades ago, he outsourced artists who made sketches of furniture in their showroom, which were then printed as a catalogue and distributed free.
In the 1950s and early 1960s Jayabharatham was the only furniture workshop and showroom in Royapettah. Soon the trained young men from his workshop left to set up their own enterprises. In days to come, Royapettah High Road and the by-lanes in the vicinity acquired the pride of place in Chennai as an exclusive centre for furniture showrooms and Jayabharatham was the only reason for this remarkable emergence of a furniture hub in Chennai.
Jayabharatham became a household name in furniture transforming the culture of hospitality and lifestyle of three generations of people from the south, infusing comfort and aesthetics in their abodes, offices and other enterprises. Ezhumalai’s staff strength had gone up to 150 when he passed away in 1979. In one life-time Ezhumalai had established himself as the father of cane furniture in India and had created a furniture hub in the city of Chennai. Ezhumalai’s first son was running the cane factory after the demise of the patriarch. After laying the foundation for a furniture hub in the city of Chennai Jayabharatham stepped into the next milestone in 1986 when E. Rajendran, the younger son entered the family business, but with a new game plan and a different format. As an engineer, he understood that it was possible to mechanize in wooden furniture and that internationally, amazing advances had been made in the manufacture of wooden furniture.
E. Rajendran laid the foundation for JFA Group in 1986 and impelled the transition from handmade furniture to machine-made wooden furniture in their new showroom near Pilot theatre in Royapettah High
Road, close to the first showroom set up by his father. Today, with 78 years of experience, Jayabharatham Furniture & Appliances Group is a trailblazer in the branded furniture market and modern retail format. Offering world class furniture comparable to that of any other country, JFA has created its own furniture brands including JFA, Modfurn and Touchwood, the latter being designated to emerge as their national and global brand.
“JFA is on par with Europe, China, and Malaysia in terms of quality, material, workmanship etc.,” says E. Rajendran, the Managing Director of JFA Group. E. Rajendran is one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs of Chennai who has built an amazing furniture empire that has put Chennai on the global map. His remarkable success in creating a niche home grown retail brand single-handedly is an inspiration to aspiring young entrepreneurs.