Press Releases

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 has reached an agreement with RBR Productions, Inc., a beauty salon products supplier, to resolve charges that the firm overstated the human safety or environmental...

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 has negotiated settlements, including $856,500 for redress to small businesses, with nine defendants named in its case against perpetrators of an allegedly deceptive...

“When the history of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice is written, Anne Bingaman will deserve a long and colorful chapter. She has made a tremendous contribution as head of the...

A price-fixing conspiracy by an organization representing professional conference interpreters forced the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Organizing Committee to pay a higher rate for language interpreters...

The marketer of an over-the-counter acne treatment, Acne-Statin, has agreed to pay a $200,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that ads touting the product as an effective...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Commission action regarding applications for prior approval: Following a public...

The Federal Trade Commission has begun efforts to repeal its Used Oil Rule as unnecessary and duplicative, and is seeking comments from the public on the proposed repeal for 30 days, until August 26...

B.A.T Industries p.l.c. and its subsidiary, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, have applied for Federal Trade Commission approval to divest six brands of discount cigarettes and a plant in...

“Project Jackpot,” a major enforcement effort targeting firms that fraudulently offer purportedly valuable prizes to consumers to induce them to purchase products, was announced today by federal and...

Fresenius AG, of Bad Hamburg, Germany, through its subsidiary, Fresenius USA, Inc., located in Walnut Creek, California, has agreed to divest its Lewisberry, Pennsylvania hemodialysis (HD) concentrate...

The nation’s two leading manufacturers of fire pumps made for installation onto fire trucks have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that each imposed restraints requiring their...

Tutor Time Child Care Systems, Inc., a nationwide franchisor of day-care centers, has agreed to pay a $220,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it has overstated the...

Global Development Services, Inc., an invention promotion firm with offices in Manassas, Virginia, has agreed to pay $1 million for consumer refunds under a settlement announced by the Federal Trade...

A tenant screening and debt collection agency operating in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated provisions of the Fair Debt...

Antares Corporation, trading and doing business as Natural Choice-USA, ORION Products Corporation, and their president Dana M. Bashor (collectively ORION), have agreed to pay $1 million in consumer...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. The FTC staff contact is Dan Ducore, 202-326-2526. Commission action regarding applications for prior approval: Following a public...

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission said in a letter made public today that it would not recommend that the Commission challenge a plan by Mayo Medical Laboratories to establish networks of...

The Federal Trade Commission today directed its staff to work out the details of a proposed final agreement with the parties on the proposed acquisition by Time Warner of Turner Broadcasting Systems...