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Dan Wieden, Who Coined Nike’s Slogan “Just Do It” at His Prolific Portland Ad Agency, Dies at 77
Dan Wieden, the Portland advertisement person whose coining of the Nike slogan “Just Do It” vaulted his company Wieden+Kennedy into international prominence, died at property Friday, the corporation announced. He was 77. Wieden was a person of the seminal figures in the emergence of Portland as a city that signified much more to the national consciousness than lumberjacks and rain. In 1982, he and David Kennedy started an advertising and marketing agency with just 1 client: a Eugene-dependent sneaker business named Nike. Wieden, a University of Oregon journalism school graduate, lower his tooth at the McCann-Erickson agency, primarily earning advertisements for timber giant Ga-Pacific. But he and Kennedy attempted some…
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Portland construction blockage forcing small business to move
Needfire Candle Co moved out of its Cost-free Avenue location at the start out of June, citing diminishing revenue from a town construction task blocking oncoming website traffic. PORTLAND, Maine — Due to the fact April, the just one-way visitors onto Free of charge Avenue from Congress and Higher Streets in Portland has been blocked owing to a four-phase revitalization of Congress Square, set to be full in summertime 2023. But the initially section of development is trying to keep automobiles away from many tiny businesses in the course of a vital time amidst tourism period. “It damage in the initial levels, we observed a 60 p.c dip in income…
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Pamplin Media Group – Business experts: Portland high home costs to stay
Portland Business Alliance forum discusses ways to build more housing and cut scarcity pricing locals out of the market. Portland house prices continue to rise, despite reports of the city losing its luster. In 2021 alone, the median home price in Portland increased more than 15 percent. But what can be done to reduce costs and supply more housing units before the locals are completely priced out? That was the main topic at the Portland Business Alliance’s monthly breakfast discussion on March 16, held in person at the downtown Hilton Hotel. A panel consisting of Jesse Miller, Vice President, Board of Directors, Multifamily NW; Michele Holen, Chief Executive Officer, Portland…
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