Between 1890 and 1907, the banks of the lower Brda river housed up to 25 active sawmills, 12 of which were large plants owned by Berlin timber traders.

[3] The year 1906 marked the peak of the activity for the wood industry in Bromberg as one third of all timber deliveries to the German Empire passed through the city and wood-related employment (sawmill, joinery, craftsmen...) reached 2100 people.

[2] The plant was initially located in Bydgoszcz at "30 Friedrichsplatz",[8] today's 27 Stary Rynek, but soon (1886) moved to Dworcowa Street.

[11] Otto Pfeferkorn also owned till WWI an entire tenement at today's 6 Theatre Square,[12] properties on Gdańska street and warehouses in Warsaw and Katowice.

Those items for the Philips brand were sought after in Warsaw and were later exported to United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden and the Third Reich.

The products were labelled with suggestive names, such as:[2] The Fabryka Mebli Artystycznych Otto Pfefferkorna in Bydgoszcz was, in the interwar, one of the most important factory of stylish furniture industry in Poland, together with Zygmunt Szczerbiński in Warszaw (est.

In practical terms, manufactured goods were mainly furniture for barracks, wardrobes, chests for ammunition, steering wheels for the Navy and aircraft parts for the Luftwaffe.

[2] The plant production at 89 Toruńska street was reconfigured, with a new carpenter's shop and the manufacturing of cigar boxes and slats for a battery factory in Cologne.

[2] In 1946, the plant was nationalized and transformed into the State Factory of Artistic Furniture in Bydgoszcz (Polish: Państwowa Fabryka Mebli Artystycznych w Bydgoszczy).

[10] On 21 January 1949, the State Factory was transformed into the Bydgoskie Fabryki Mebli[2] and subordinated to the "Union of Furniture Industry" based in Poznań.

As a consequence, 16 nearby factories producing furniture moved under the management of Bydgoskie Fabryki Mebli, followed by 10 additional ones in 1987.

[14] Since the 1960s, the domestic market was supplied either with furniture made of lacquers, less resistant to abrasion and mechanical damage, or with lower quality wood veneer; often the products exhibited external color differences as well as scratches or dents caused by poor handling and transportation.

[20] Bydgoskie Fabryki Mebli manufacturing, at that time, still relied heavily on handwork, singling out itself from the mass production adopted in western countries.

[21] In the post-war period, the company had a leading position on the domestic market and an important one in Europe as a manufacturer of stylish furniture.

A new upholstery workshop was built in the former factory of the firm "Eltra" at 146 Glinki street and in 1994, a new production hall was erected nearby.

[23] Once again, in 2000, the company sold the land and facilities at Rondo Toruński, where a shopping center Tesco was soon built (today, the plot houses a Leroy Merlin supermarket).

[14] After 2005, Schieder Möbel Holding sold as well the buildings and the plot at Pestalozzi street to a residential estate developer (today's "Osiedle Paryskie").