Press Releases

What: Consumers annually spend over $120 billion on home improvement projects, but are often victimized by unscrupulous or incompetent contractors. Because home improvement fraud consistently ranks as...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it had accepted a proposed settlement with Koninklijke Ahold nv and Giant Food Inc., which will keep supermarket prices competitive in eight...

"Y2K? Y 2 Care" is the theme of five business and consumer publications released today by the Federal Trade Commission as part of National Y2K Action Week, October 19-23. The week is an initiative of...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice today published a "Communiqué" from the first "Antitrust Summit of the Americas." Antitrust authorities from 11 of the 12 nations of the...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final consent agreements with the following entities. The Commission action makes the consent orders...

Robert Pitofsky, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, said today that 18 months after adoption of new guidelines for treating efficiency claims in defense of mergers, dire predictions about the...

LaFarge, Corp. has agreed to restructure its agreement to purchase certain assets of Holnam, Inc., to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the purchase agreement violated federal antitrust...

The Federal Trade Commission and eight state Attorneys General today sought a preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court to require the marketer of TERMINATE, a termite bait system, to modify the...

Chrysler Corporation, its national advertising agency, Bozell Worldwide Inc., and Martin Advertising, Inc., a regional advertising agency for General Motors’ dealerships and dealer associations, have...

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission on October 8 filed a comment with the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy (MDTE) outlining issues it may wish to consider as it reviews...

Toys "R" Us, the nation’s largest toy retailer, was ordered today by the Federal Trade Commission to stop engaging in illegal practices that keep toy prices higher and reduce choice for consumers...

The Premerger Notification Office of the Federal Trade Commission, with the concurrence of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, has issued a Formal Interpretation under the Hart-Scott...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that a federal court has found Minuteman Press International, Inc., its wholly-owned affiliate Speedy Sign-A-Rama, U.S.A., Inc., and two of the...

Antitrust enforcement at the Federal Trade Commission has just concluded one of the most active years in recent memory, according to William J. Baer, Director of the agency's Bureau of Competition...

A U.S. District Court has ordered a temporary halt to the operations of three Fort Wayne-based telemarketers charged by the Federal Trade Commission with deceptively convincing small businesses they...

The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated settlements with two companies and their principals to resolve charges brought against them as part of "Operation Eraser," a federal-state crackdown on...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with the following entity. The Commission action makes the consent order...

Four individuals and four companies, named by the Federal Trade Commission in its "Project Field of Schemes" investment fraud cases, have agreed to settle FTC charges that they, and others, made...

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission and local investigators recently checked used car lots in Washington, D.C. and Oregon to evaluate compliance with the FTC's Used Car Rule, which requires used car...

On September 25, the Federal Trade Commission staff filed a comment with the Federal Communications Commission about competition issues related to FCC's proposed framework for the development and...