Further information about the topic Elmar Flötotto

The design products by Elmar Flötotto are simply different: Elmar Flötotto turns things upside down! Elmar Flötotto offers innovative furniture, lights and objects with their own esprit and personality.

The design products from this brand are eyecatchers, confident in its very own style and correspond to a contemporary way of life. The designer Elmar Flötotto offers flexible solutions, innovations and quality at a fair price. This company looks back at a long history:

• 1906: Year of birth of the company. Foundation of a furniture industry by Heinrich Flötotto in Gütersloh-Avenwedde with focus on bedrooms and completion of the interior.
• 1910: Flötotto grows up to a middle-class company. Extensive acknowledgement of the high standard of quality.
• 1946: Franz Flötotto takes over the business shares of the company in Avenwedde.
• 1969: Death of the founder of the brand, Franz Flötotto.
• 1978: Anna and Elmar Flötotto continue the tradition Flötotto and start with import and export of living-furniture under the name Flötotto.
• 1992: For a precise separation of further Flötotto brands the collection elmarflötotto is born.
• 1993: Foundation of annaflötotto GmbH with focus on cottage furniture. Brand awareness in Germany today: 18%.
• 1996: Lumibär is on top of the world. Brand awareness in Germany today: 21,1%.
• 1999: Foundation of E.Flötotto Ltd., Maryland, USA.
• 2000: Absorption of the insolvent Authentics GmbH.
• 2001: Foundation of EFH, Elmar Flötotto Holding, to bundle all services of the retail enterprises.
• 2002: Relaunch of the brand Artipresent.
• 2003: Foundation of brands GmbH as a distribution company for international furniture brands.
• 2004: Relaunch of the brand elmarflötotto.