Rite Aid Corporation has abandoned its proposed acquisition of Revco D.S., Inc. after the Federal Trade Commission voted April 17 to authorize its staff to seek a preliminary injunction in federal...

The Federal Trade Commission has extended the public comment period on issues related to "Made in USA" claims in product advertising and labeling to June 30, 1996. The request for public comment is...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Applications for prior approval of transactions: The FTC has received an...

For anyone who thinks contributing to a cleaner environment means inconvenience and sacrifice, there’s good news: Doing a few simple things in your own home can help reduce pollution and waste. Making...

EDJ Telecommunications, Inc., doing business as International Marketing, a Las Vegas company, and its officers, Judy Burr and David L. Ramos, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges...

Applications for prior approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for prior approval of a divestiture from the following. The application will be subject to public comment for 30...

Lockheed Martin Corporation will settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its $9.1 billion acquisition of Loral Corporation would violate antitrust laws. The FTC charged that the proposed deal...

The St. Louis, Missouri-based May Department Stores Company (May Co.) has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that, when it converted its Thalhimer’s customers’ charge card accounts to...

The Federal Trade Commission said today it will seek a federal district court order to prevent Rite Aid Corporation from going ahead with its $1.8 billion acquisition of Revco D.S., Inc. The FTC said...

The Federal Trade Commission said today that the Telemarketing Sales Rule implemented by the Commission will be a “strong new weapon in the arsenal against demand draft fraud and telemarketing fraud...

Two Seattle-based companies and their owners, Kurt Tripp and Ngoc Ly, have settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that they falsely represented Native American-style carvings as authentic Native...

The Federal Trade Commission will allow clothing manufacturers and other marketers to use the name “lyocell” in the fiber content labels they are required by law to place in garments and other textile...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has reached settlements in two more of the 34 cases it filed last July as part of “Project Telesweep,” a federal-state crackdown on deceptively...

If telemarketers who promise to help consumers “clean up” their credit records ask for any money up front, they’re breaking the law. Moreover, they can’t do what they promise, if the information in...

Keith Parker, president of Desert Financial Group (DFG), a Las Vegas company, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they falsely told consumers -- most of them senior citizens --...

Ford Motor Company and its advertising agency, Young & Rubicam, Inc., have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false claims about the extent to which Ford’s MicronAir...

The Federal Trade Commission staff has advised the American Medical Association (AMA) that its proposal to disseminate to the public information relating to proposed revisions to Medicare’s resource...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Applications for prior approval of transactions: The FTC has received an...

Zygon International, Inc., a Redmond, Washington-based company that marketed the "Learning Machine" and other products, has agreed to settle deceptive advertising charges brought by the Federal Trade...

As part of its ongoing periodic review of its rules and guides and in keeping with the objective to eliminate obsolete or unnecessary regulatory requirements, the Federal Trade Commission is seeking...