Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that Phillips Petroleum Company and Enron Corp. have agreed to modify a proposed transaction so as to ensure competition for the transportation of natural...

After the San Jose Mercury News ran an article in May 1994 telling consumers how to analyze new car factory invoices so that they could be better negotiators when buying cars, local car dealers...

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a consent agreement with Eli Lilly and Company settling charges that its $4 billion acquisition of McKesson Corporation's prescription...

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a consent agreement with Nature's Bounty, Inc. and two of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, settling charges that they made deceptive weight-loss...

MINI-TV USA, Inc., and its president have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they have deceptively pitched their business opportunity, which involves placing mini, coin-operated...

A Lockport, Illinois, man has admitted to running a deceptive scheme to bill churches and small businesses for unordered merchandise, the Federal Trade Commission announced today. Under an agreement...

How well are the Federal Trade Commission's Guidelines for Environmental Marketing Claims working in preventing the false or misleading use of advertising terms such as recyclable, degradable and...

T Debbie C. Taylor, a defendant in the Federal Trade Commissionþs case against an allegedly fraudulent sweepstakes- entry club has agreed to settle federal charges stemming from her role in...

The Federal Trade Commission has approved two divestitures by Olin Corporation, of Stamford, Connecticut. In the first, Olin will divest pool chemical facilities it owns in South Charleston, West...

General Motors Corporation (GM) has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to reopen and modify the portion of a 1979 consent order that prohibits GM from labeling the make of a car on the engine...

KKR Associates, L.P., of New York City, on behalf of itself and other respondents, has asked the Federal Trade Commission to reopen and modify a 1989 consent order to delete a provision that requires...

The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated settlement agreements with two New Jersey men -- Donald Hellinger and Robert Ostroff -- and their companies, charged with decep- tively promoting credit...

The Federal Trade Commission today released a list of companies that are required, as the subjects of FTC orders, to obtain FTC approval before acquiring certain assets or voting securities of other...

A Federal Trade Commission administrative law judge has issued an order prohibiting the California Dental Association (CDA), whose 19,000 members comprise 75 percent of the dentists in the state, from...

Kraft Foods, Inc., as successor to National Dairy Products Corporation, has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to set aside a 1967 order that prohibits Kraft from discriminating in price between...

Onkyo U.S.A. Corporation, a manufacturer of audio components, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated a 1982 FTC order under which it agreed not to fix prices or engage...

William J Baer, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, has announced the appointment of Willard K. Tom to serve as Assistant Director for Policy and Evaluation, effective...

Citing "deliberate, repeated, and numerous" violations of law, a federal district court has ordered a Baltimore debt- collection agency, National Financial Services (NFS), and its owner, Robert J...

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a consent agreement with Reebok International, Ltd. and its subsidiary, The Rockport Company, Inc., settling charges that they fixed the resale...

Dallas, Texas-based Jani-King International, Inc. has agreed to pay a $100,000 civil penalty as part of a settlement of Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to provide poten- tial...