Who owns Williams Sonoma?
Williams Sonoma is owned by Williams-Sonoma (the United States, NYSE: WSM).[1]
Evidence: Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, San Francisco, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Sonoma, California
- Founded
- 1956
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Furniture & furnishings › Cookware & tableware
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: WSM
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Williams Sonoma
Williams Sonoma sells cookware, knives and kitchen equipment at the premium end, and its catalogue introduced many American households to French and Italian cooking tools. Its founder imported the first commercial French copper pans sold in the country. Its cookbooks and its long-running catalogue essays did as much to shape American home cooking as the equipment it sold, and it still runs cooking classes in many stores.
What Williams-Sonoma's annual report says about Williams Sonoma
Sentences about Williams Sonoma from Williams-Sonoma's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Williams Sonoma From the beginning, our namesake brand, Williams Sonoma, has been bringing people together around food.
Williams Sonoma products offer everything for cooking, dining and entertaining, including: cookware, tools, electrics, cutlery, tabletop and bar, food, outdoor, furniture and a vast library of cookbooks.
How often Williams-Sonoma names Williams Sonoma in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Williams Sonoma
- Current owner Williams-Sonoma [1] verified
Where Williams Sonoma sits in Williams-Sonoma
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Open the full Williams-Sonoma ownership tree →
See the full Williams-Sonoma brand portfolio (5) →
Other brands owned by Williams-Sonoma
Williams-Sonoma controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
- Mark and Graham (2012)
- Pottery Barn (1949)
- Rejuvenation (1977)
- West Elm (2002)
Other brands in cookware & tableware, and who owns them
The 42 brands in cookware & tableware on Brandtree belong to 13 owners. The largest is Fiskars Group, with 10; Williams-Sonoma has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Arabia | Fiskars Group | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Fitz and Floyd | Lifetime Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Nambé | Portmeirion Group | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Ballarini | ZWILLING | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Chicago Cutlery | Corelle Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Duni | Duni Group | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Bordallo Pinheiro | Vista Alegre Atlantis | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| like. by Villeroy & Boch | Villeroy & Boch | 🇩🇪 Germany |
About the owner: Williams-Sonoma
Williams-Sonoma is a publicly listed company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, founded in 1956. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: WSM.
Williams-Sonoma started in 1956 when a builder returned from France with cookware nobody in California sold and opened a shop to sell it. The group now runs several furniture and homeware chains that are far larger than the original store.
Williams-Sonoma: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Williams Sonoma and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Williams Sonoma is not one of them.
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- Alamo Cement — Buzzi 🇮🇹
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Williams Sonoma?
The parent company of Williams Sonoma is Williams-Sonoma, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Williams Sonoma American?
Yes. Williams Sonoma originated in the United States in 1956 and its owner, Williams-Sonoma, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Williams Sonoma still owned by Williams-Sonoma?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Williams Sonoma is still owned by Williams-Sonoma. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-26 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 26 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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