Commission Actions

Federated Department Stores, Inc., one of the country's largest operators of department stores, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated a 1979 FTC order prohibiting it...

The BBDO Worldwide, Inc. advertising agency has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges of engaging in deceptive practices in connection with its role in developing certain advertisements...

Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation has applied to the Federal Trade Commission for approval to divest hospitals it owns in West Valley City and Layton, Utah, and in Milton, Florida, to Paracelsus...

The Federal Trade Commission has extended until Nov. 15, 1995, the deadline for comments on a proposal to consolidate several old regulatory items into a single set of guidelines for the advertising...

As the Federal Trade Commission prepares to conduct a public workshop on "Made in USA" advertising claims, the agency will publish in the Wednesday, Oct. 18 edition of the Federal Register a notice...

The Coca-Cola Company has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to set aside a provision in an order requiring the company, until 2005, to obtain the FTC's approval prior to acquiring any interest...

A federal district court judge has permanently banned the Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based firm, Public Telco Corporation, and its owner, Ronald Oman, from offering any franchise or business opportunity...

The Federal Trade Commission today released a staff study of two early lawsuits the FTC brought to enforce a federal law prohibiting price discrimination. The FTC staff study, authored by John L...

The only provision of the order that still imposed requirements on the company mandated that Mannesmann, until 2002, obtain the FTC's approval before acquiring an interest in any entity that...

The order prohibits the Chain Institute -- now known as the National Association of Chain Manufacturers -- from conspiring to fix, maintain or establish prices for welded chain or chain products. The...

Rohm and Haas Company has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to set aside a provision in a 1992 consent order requiring the company, until 2002, to obtain the FTC's approval prior to acquiring...

Eleven telemarketers, who allegedly bilked older consumers during the last several years through fraudulent prize-promotion schemes, have been indicted and nine thus far arrested as part of a federal...

In opening remarks at the Federal Trade Commission's hearings on global and innovation-based competition, FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky said today that law enforcement agencies have an obligation to...