Matthew Kish

Portland

@Oregonian reporter covering apparel companies and banks. Formers: @BusinessInsider, @PDXBizJournal, @Bagehots. [email protected]. 503-221-4386. DMs open.

Articles

Popular Portland Timber Diego Chará gives Omorpho its latest boost

1 week ago | oregonlive.com | Matthew Kish

On a recent overcast Wednesday, Diego Chará kicked a soccer ball around Providence Park while wearing a vest and shorts weighted with precisely placed steel ball bearings. The Portland Timbers captain has been training in the eye-catching gear for 18 months. On Thursday, Omorpho, the company that makes the vest and shorts, said it signed the popular Chará as its newest endorser.
How Forbes ranked Oregon billionaires Phil Knight, Travis Boersma and Tim Boyle in 2025

1 week ago | oregonlive.com | Matthew Kish

Dutch Bros co-founder Travis Boersma is now the second-richest billionaire in Oregon, according to the latest annual Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people. Boersma leapfrogged Columbia Sportswear’s Tim Boyle. Nike’s Phil Knight remains, by far, the wealthiest Oregonian, even after new tariffs clobbered the sportswear company’s stock price. Knight, Boersma and Boyle are the only three Oregonians on the list of billionaires, which Forbes published this month.
Nike, plaintiffs ask for more time to work out class settlement in sex discrimination lawsuit

1 week ago | oregonlive.com | Matthew Kish

Nike and plaintiffs’ lawyers late Friday asked a judge for more time as they work to hammer out a class settlement in a sweeping sex discrimination lawsuit. After reaching a tentative settlement in February, the two sides had a Friday deadline to give the court a status update. “The Parties have worked diligently to try to negotiate a proposed agreement to resolve the putative class claims, but several material terms remain pending,” lawyers for both sides wrote in a joint filing on Friday.
How Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs have rattled Oregon small businesses

1 week ago | oregonlive.com | Matthew Kish

Emma McIlroy’s latest shipment of apparel arrived on Monday. If she placed the order after this week’s tariff hikes, it would have cost her $178,000 more. “$178,000 I do not have,” she said. McIlroy is CEO of the 16-employee Wildfang, one of the darlings of Portland’s celebrated apparel cluster.
How Oregon stocks fared in Wall Street’s wild week

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Matthew Kish

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a 90-day pause on many of the tariffs he unveiled a week ago, sparking a partial stock market recovery and boosting the shares of numerous companies with Oregon operations. But the stocks of many companies remained below prices from a week ago. Shares of Nike, Oregon’s biggest company, climbed 11% in Wednesday trading, but remained 9% below a week ago.
Oregon bill would give consumers another tool in fights against insurers

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Matthew Kish

Around 5 a.m. on Feb. 14, 2021, a 100-foot maple tree crashed into the Lake Oswego home where Jennifer Harvey lives with her husband and three children. “It was a different type of Valentine’s Day massacre,” she joked, describing the sound as like a “freight train” hitting her house. Harvey’s husband immediately contacted their insurance company. It did not go smoothly. Months of negotiations went nowhere, she said, and handoffs among insurance adjusters seemed designed to force her to give up.
‘Tariff tantrum’ will squeeze Oregon’s sneaker business

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Matthew Kish

The Wall Street firm Jefferies likened it to a “tariff tantrum.” And it’s one with big implications for Oregon. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs designed to spur domestic manufacturing and targeted at countries that make most of the sneakers and T-shirts in American closets. The announcement body slammed the sportswear industry, one of Oregon’s economic engines, and one without an easy answer to Trump’s steep new surcharges on products imported from Asian countries.
Nike, Columbia Sportswear stocks fall after Trump announces tariff hikes

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Matthew Kish

Shares of Nike plunged 7% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs , including a steep tariff on imports from Vietnam, where Nike makes half of its footwear. Nike is the largest company in Oregon’s robust sportswear industry, but it’s not the only one whose shares are getting squeezed by the new tariffs. Shares of Columbia Sportswear were down 3% in after-hours trading on Wednesday.
Nike, Columbia Sportswear stocks fall after Trump announces tariff hikes

3 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Matthew Kish

Shares of Nike plunged 7% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs, including a steep tariff on imports from Vietnam, where Nike makes half of its footwear. Nike is the largest company in Oregon’s robust sportswear industry, but it’s not the only one whose shares are getting squeezed by the new tariffs. Shares of Columbia Sportswear were down 3% in after-hours trading on Wednesday.
Umpqua Bank settles class action lawsuit over customer’s Ponzi scheme

3 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Matthew Kish

Roughly a month before an expected second trial, Umpqua Bank has settled a class action lawsuit over a customer’s Ponzi scheme for $55 million. Plaintiffs were seeking as much as $360 million in damages. The bank disclosed the settlement last week in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The bank and plaintiffs also filed a notice of settlement with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where the lawsuit was filed.