The company was positioned in the year by 1956. It was set up by Charles Ourite. Williams in a place called Sonoma. To start with , the company sold kitchenware for a limited amount of customer start. Friends and family members of Charles seeing the kitchenware he sold advised him to change locations to San Francisco to expand his market. Once he moved to Los angeles he expanded by printing mail order catalogs for your customers. The actual went public in last year 1983 by listing as New York Stock ...