please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message martela oyj industry furniture and interior solutions founded helsinki finland 1945 founder matti s. martela headquarters helsinki finland key people martela heikki president ceo ari matti purhonen bu finland nn bu sweden savo veli matti bu international boman petri supply chain rutkowski marcin bu poland pirskanen markku economics ontronen sirpa hr revenue 132 3 million eur 2013 number of employees 770 2013 website www.martela.com martela is a finnish company supplying furniture and interior solutions . in 2013 martela group s turnover was eur 132 3 million and it employed an average of 770 employees . martela is the largest company in its sector in finland citation needed and one of the three largest in the nordic countries . martela also offers a wider range of services that support the maintenance and modification of interior solutions than anyone else . citation needed in finland martela offers a comprehensive service that can cover the entire process of change from initial inventory and design to removal and maintenance . citation needed history the foundation of martela tehokaluste edit matti s. martela worked at the riihim ki woodworking company that he himself had founded . he had good relations to business circles and knew that there was demand for new office furniture . his idea was groundbreaking in its simplicity create a company in finland that would develop and market sensibly designed office furniture according to the new office standards . martela then called tehokaluste oy was established in 1945 . operations did not begin with production first as with many competitors . instead the company focused on designing products and marketing them to customers . the founders of the company with business degrees were matti s. martela henrik virkkunen unto eskola and jonne jahnukainen plus svante nurmiranta and interior architect wladimir rumjantsew . even before the company had been property established matti s. martela had received orders for tehokaluste from his future key client the finnish government . he had offered the director of the resettlement department of the ministry of agriculture veikko vennamo writing desks designed by interior architect rumjantsew . vennamo initially ordered fifty desks but before the company had time even to deliver these another order arrived for fifty more . a hundred desks was such a major order for the young company that it supported operations for the first months . the government continued to be tehokaluste s biggest client throughout the 1940s . the first order began a healthy relationship with the finnish government s central procurement unit that lasted for decades . martela history website of martela 60 years anniversary in 2005 external links edit website of martela group website of martela 60 years anniversary in 2005 this finnish corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title martela & oldid 711046197 categories companies based in helsinkicompanies listed on the helsinki stock exchangemanufacturing companies of finlandfinnish company stubshidden categories articles lacking sources from march 2016all articles lacking sourcesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from march 2016all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages eesti suomisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 20 march 2016 at 17 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view