In 2008, the company opened Pottery Barn and West Elm stores at Plaza Las Americas in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, a district of the capital San Juan. The preserved façade of the former University Theatre, which was the site of the first Canadian stores of Pottery Barn and Williams Sonoma from 2001 to 2017 The Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn stores in Yorkville occupied a combined 37,000 square feet of space at the retail podium of the 100 Bloor Street West condominium these stores closed in 2017 after the landlord substantially raised rents in 2014. In October 2001, the company opened its first international stores in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2015, the company made a pledge at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting to expand its Fair Trade Certified product offerings. Former President Bill Clinton visited a West Elm showroom after the company spent nearly that amount in the first year of the agreement. The collaborations were aimed to positively impact over 4,000 artisan workers. and abroad to sell in its stores over the course of two years.
The West Elm brand is active with the Clinton Global Initiative and in 2013 agreed to invest $35 million on hand made goods from U.S. The joint venture will be done with DDK, which is a hospitality management and development company. Through the West Elm brand, the company launched West Elm Hotels. The West Elm brand was launched in 2002 with the release of a catalog the following year, the brand opened its first store. Williams Sonoma's e-commerce sales were approximately 52 percent of its parent company's revenue of the first quarter of 2015. The company launched a lifestyle brand offering personalized products, Mark and Graham, in November 2012. In November 2011, the company acquired Portland, Oregon-based Rejuvenation, a manufacturer and direct marketer of light fixtures and hardware with stores in Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles. She was active in building the Pottery Barn catalog and the development and launch of Pottery Barn Kids and PBteen. In May 2010, Lester retired, and Laura Alber was named CEO of the umbrella organization. was operating 610 stores with an annual revenue of over $3 billion. Pottery Barn extended its merchandising with the introduction of the Pottery Barn Bed & Bath and Pottery Barn Kids in Manhattan. The Pottery Barn brand further expanded with the launch of PBteen in early 2003. The company also launched Pottery Barn Kids, a spin-off of Pottery Barn that specializes in home furnishings for children. The following year, Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
It was listed on the New York Stock Exchange starting in 1998, while sales reached $1 billion for the first time. grew by an average of 12 stores per year, bringing the total locations to over 100 stores in the U.S. was one of the largest proprietary distributors in the Memphis area with 3.5 million square feet of distribution space. The company's expansion led to the opening of its first distribution center in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1984. The acquisition included Pottery Barn's 27 housewares stores located in California, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York for $6 million. At the end of 1985, the company was generating over $51 million in sales. One million shares were offered on the OTC Market at $23 a share. had its initial public offering in July 1983.
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