Press Releases

“Increasing globalization and rapid innovation are profoundly altering the marketplace, creating new possibilities and raising new problems for consumers, businesses and government agencies,”...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526 or Elizabeth Piotrowski, 202-326-2623. Applications for prior approval of...

Beeson Funeral Home, Inc. and owner James E. Beeson, Jr., have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that they failed to provide consumers with price lists for caskets and other...

In its 12th and largest law enforcement action against fraud on the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission has obtained a federal court order temporarily halting a pyramid scheme advertised on the...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Commission action regarding petitions to reopen and modify FTC orders: Following a...

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 orders binding...

The Federal Trade Commission has won a federal district court order temporarily halting a deceptive invention promotion telemarketing scheme run by Global Patent Research Services, Inc. The president...

Motion Medical, Inc., based in Blacklick, Ohio, and company president Anton Albert Wood have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges stemming from their role in an allegedly deceptive scheme...

The Federal Trade Commission charged today that Toys “R” Us, the nation’s largest toy retailer, has used its power to keep toy prices higher and reduce toy outlet choices for consumers. The FTC...

The Federal Trade Commission has repealed its Leather Belt Rule, based on plans to replace the rule and other FTC regulations pertaining to individual leather products with consolidated guidelines for...

A federal district court has ordered a temporary halt to the allegedly deceptive prize-promotion solicitation scheme run by Silver State Western Publishing, Inc., doing business as Prime Time...

The Federal Trade Commission has updated its Guides for the Jewelry Industry, which are voluntarily and extensively followed by jewelry and gemstone marketers in advertising their products to...

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

Robert S. Walton, III, Executive Director at the Federal Trade Commission since 1988, has been honored by President Clinton as a recipient of the Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive for...

The Federal Trade Commission said today that consumers who have received debt-collection letters from Goldman & Levine, the name under which the Secaucus, New Jersey-based G&L Financial Services, Inc...

The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Education will hold a public workshop on June 4 and 5 to focus on privacy issues in the online marketplace. The development of technologies such as...

The Loewen Group Inc., one of the largest owners and operators of funeral homes and cemeteries in the United States, has agreed to divest funeral homes in three markets in order to settle Federal...

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...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Petitions to reopen and modify FTC orders: The FTC has received a petition from...

The Federal Trade Commission staff has advised the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that four measures may assist its evaluations of whether electric utility mergers will be anticompetitive...