Sam Adams

Brand loyalty: It's why we buy a lot of what we buy, and any company that sells anything is striving to induce that feeling in its potential customers. Last week, research consultancy Brand Keys revealed which American companies do it best.

It's official: the chicken came before the egg. At least that's the finding of British researchers at Sheffield University. But here in Portland, Ore., we've known for years what comes first: the coop. Portland ordinances allow residents to keep three chickens (or ducks or rabbits or pygmy...

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Tuesday (last updated 8:18 a.m. ET). Coach Earnings Rise: Coach (COH) ended its fiscal year with a bang reporting fiscal fourth-quarter earnings rose almost 40% to 64 cents a share, beating analyst estimates of 56...

At 6pm today, a beer war of international scope will begin. That's because the participants in the Beer Summit -- President Barack H. Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, and Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Sargent James Crowley -- will each be drinking different beers. Those who thought...

Ahh, Mayor Sam Adams. We Portlanders so want to love you, with your yellow bike helmet and your openly gay self-ness. You reflect all that is Portland, bike-geeky and weird, weird, weird.Lately, however, you reflect us a little too well. Like one of those magnifying mirrors that lets you see your...

One of my favorite episodes of Columbo is called Double Exposure, where Columbo uses subliminal tricks to help nab a marketing genius who murders a client using subliminal advertising.Subliminal advertising is considered a deceptive business practice by the Federal Trade Commission, but in a column...