{"id":240364,"date":"2026-05-06T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/nike-to-close-technology-offices-consolidate-functions-in-portland-report-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:30:07","slug":"nike-to-close-technology-offices-consolidate-functions-in-portland-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/nike-to-close-technology-offices-consolidate-functions-in-portland-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike to close technology offices, consolidate functions in Portland, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/money\/business\/nike-to-close-technology-offices-consolidate-functions-in-portland-report-says\/283-c6da8303-fa09-45d1-abcb-ea6ef7628548\">Nike to close technology offices, consolidate functions in Portland, report says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/money\/business\/nike-to-close-technology-offices-consolidate-functions-in-portland-report-says\/283-c6da8303-fa09-45d1-abcb-ea6ef7628548\">https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/money\/business\/nike-to-close-technology-offices-consolidate-functions-in-portland-report-says\/283-c6da8303-fa09-45d1-abcb-ea6ef7628548<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-06 13:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kgw.com\">www.kgw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 This story comes from the Portland Business Journal, a KGW News partner. The full story is here.<\/p>\n<p>Nike plans to bring some of its technology operations to Portland while closing offices in Atlanta, China and Poland, according to the Oregonian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re reshaping our Technology team to sharpen alignment with the business, build leaner teams, and accelerate what matters most,\u201d the Oregonian quoted Chief Operating Officer Venkatesh Alagirisamy saying in a message to employees.<\/p>\n<p>Nike&#8217;s Atlanta technology innovation center dates to 2022, when it announced it had targeted the city for a major expansion. Plans for the office included three &#8220;centers of excellence&#8221; that would focus on logistics and supply chain, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, a PBJ sibling publication,\u00a0reported in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Nike was pursuing former CEO John Donahoe&#8217;s strategy of shifting sales from retail partners to direct online sales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/money\/business\/nike-to-close-technology-offices-consolidate-functions-in-portland-report-says\/283-c6da8303-fa09-45d1-abcb-ea6ef7628548\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nike to close technology offices, consolidate functions in Portland, report says https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/money\/business\/nike-to-close-technology-offices-consolidate-functions-in-portland-report-says\/283-c6da8303-fa09-45d1-abcb-ea6ef7628548 Publish Date: 2026-05-06&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.kgw.com\/assets\/KGW\/images\/60408273-e2da-4a7b-be04-67b243857cc7\/60408273-e2da-4a7b-be04-67b243857cc7_1140x641.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-240364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240366,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240364\/revisions\/240366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}