Williams-Sonoma, Inc. · San Francisco, CA United States ·(NYSE: WSM)

Epicureans are at home at Williams-Sonoma, a leading retailer of high-end goods for well-appointed kitchens, bedrooms, and baths. Home products include bath and storage products, bedding, cookware, furniture, and tableware. The company's retail chains, Williams-Sonoma and Williams Sonoma Home (upscale cookware and furniture), West Elm (housewares), and Pottery Barn and Pottery Barn Kids (housewares, furniture), sell wares through about 625 stores in some 45 states, Washington, DC, Canada, and Puerto Rico. In addition, Williams-Sonoma distributes seven catalogs. It also operates about 20 outlet stores, which sell goods from all five chains, six e-commerce Web sites, and an online bridal registry. To read the full description, subscribe now.