Li-Ning closed its Pearl District retail store last week and the company’s U.S. operations are now being run out of Chicago, a spokesman told the Portland Business Journal.
The company’s Pearl District offices still house a product design team, though the company now employs less than 12 in Portland, Craig Heisner, head of marketing for Digital Li-Ning, a joint venture between Li-Ning and Chicago-based digital marketing firm Acquity Group.
Digital Li-Ning launced the Li Ning U.S. e-commerce website in December.
