By Oregon Better Business Bureau, See full top 20 list here, Top 10 Complaints 1. Auto Dealers – New Cars 2. Television – Cable, CATV & Satellite 3. Auto Dealers – Used Cars 4. Auto Repair & Service 5*. Property Management 5*. Furniture – Retail 7. Video Tapes & Discs […]

By Oregon Business Report, A simple apology saved a business millions and satisfied customer complaints.  New studies show businesses can improve customer relations without dropping a rebate check in the mail.  Researchers at Britain’s Nottingham School of Economics tracked 632 customer complaints posted on a German eBay site.  In an […]

Oregon Provides Short Window for Taxpayer Amnesty; Those That Don’t Comply Get the Stick Written by Morgan Smith Miller Nash Oregon and Washington Law Firm Taxpayers having a tax deficiency and flying under the radar of the Oregon Department of Revenue were given a break when Governor Kulongoski signed Senate […]

MSN Money reports, “Nike Inc. co-founder and Chairman Phil Knight has sold more than $150 million of Nike stock in the past week, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. Knight sold 2.3 million shares for prices ranging between $64.13 and $66.34 starting Oct. […]

By Bill Conerly, Businomics, Conerly Consulting LLC “Technical debt” does NOT mean, “Technically, we’re in debt.”  Technical debt is what happens when a business puts up an application that isn’t perfect, then has to clean up bugs and scale issues in the future.  I heard the phrase for the first […]

Reuters reports, “World stocks hit a new 12-month high on Tuesday, powered by strong results from Apple Inc and Texas Instruments and helping to push the dollar to a new 14-month low against a basket of currencies. The strength in global stocks, up 75 percent from crisis-lows in March, boosted […]

By Nick Beleiciks, Senior Analyst Oregon Employment Department There were 18,242 job openings in Oregon this spring, according to the results of the 2009 Oregon Job Vacancy Survey. That was significantly fewer than the 47,888 job vacancies employers reported last spring. Despite the weaker economy, employers reported a tough time […]

Oregon jury finds that employer must compensate workers for donning and doffing Bullard Smith Jernstedt Wilson BULLARD eAlert A recent jury verdict serves as a good reminder to employers: where an employer requires employees to don or doff uniforms/protective gear at the place of employment, and the donning/doffing may be […]

Bureau of Economic Analysis, State Personal Income Percent Change: Second Quarter 2009 U.S. personal income grew 0.2 percent in the second quarter of 2009, the first growth in a year for the U.S. and for 15 states, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In […]

By Patrick Emerson Oregon Economics Blog This map shows all of Oregon’s export markets and their relative size. It is a nifty way to get an idea of with whom we trade and how much we trade with each. This week, I have had exchanges with two reporters about Oregon’s […]