Sur La Table is owned by a group of private investors, including Freeman Spogli
and the Behnke family
Chief Executive Officer
Jack Schwefel
Corporate Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Employees
More than 1,900 people work at the Sur La Table corporate office, national distribution
center and retail stores.
Retail Stores
More than 65 stores nationwide.
Catalog Program
First mailed to 25,000 customers by request in 1988, featuring black-and-white photos.
Color photographs were added in 1991 and the catalog grew into a multimillion-dollar
business with national distribution. Currently, 9 million catalogs are distributed
annually.
E-commerce
Surlatable.com was introduced in 1999. Today it carries thousands of items, and
features store events, recipes, gift registry, culinary program information and
more. The site was redesigned in 2006.
Cooking Class Program
Sur La Table’s cooking class program started in 1996. Today it is the largest nationwide,
avocational cooking class program in America. Most classes are hands-on and focus
on seasonal cuisine and technique-oriented courses; skill levels range from beginner
to advanced, with special courses devoted just to kids and teens. Private cooking
lessons are available in all programs.
Gift Registry
Launched in 1999, it is available to customers at all stores and online at surlatable.com.
Products
Sur La Table carries thousands of products for the kitchen, including exclusive
and hard-to-find items. The company offers a vast assortment of bakeware, barware,
books, cleaning products, cookware, cutlery, electrics, furnishings, gadgets, glassware,
grilling tools, linens, serving pieces, table décor and more.
Vendors
Worldwide vendors include All-Clad, Anolon, Bialetti, Bodum, Chilewich, Capresso,
Cuisinart, DeLonghi, Demeyere, Dualit, Emile Henry, FrancisFrancis!, J.A. Henckels,
John Boos & Co., KitchenAid, Le Creuset, Lodge, Nespresso, Peugeot, Riedel, Rösle,
Shun, Staub, Waechtersbach, Waring and Wüsthof.
Celebrity Chefs
Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Paula Deen, Bobby Flay, Tyler Florence, Giada De Laurentiis,
Jamie Oliver, Rachael Ray and others appear frequently at our stores for book signings.
Community Giving
Sur La Table is proud to support the worthy and necessary mission of America’s
Second Harvest—The Nation’s Food Bank Network, whose critical work is
focused on alleviating hunger in our country.
Cookbook Program
Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (AMP) has acquired North American publishing rights
for the first three books in a series being introduced by Sur La Table. The Sur
La Table books will be the cornerstone of a new line of cookbooks being added to
the AMP program. The first, Things Cooks Love: Implements and Ingredients
by Marie Simmons with Sur La Table, will publish in spring 2008. The second, The
Art & Soul of Baking by Cindy Mushet with Sur La Table, will publish in
Fall 2008. The third, A Cook’s Guide to Knives by Sarah Jay with
Sur La Table, will publish in Fall 2008.
