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How well are the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission's Guidelines for Environmental Marketing Claims working in preventing the false or misleading use of advertising terms such as recyclable, degradable and...

A Lockport, Illinois, man has admitted to running a deceptive scheme to bill churches and small businesses for unordered merchandise, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission announced today. Under an agreement...

MINI-TV USA, Inc., and its president have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that they have deceptively pitched their business opportunity, which involves placing mini, coin-operated...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ 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...

T Debbie C. Taylor, a defendant in the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commissionþs case against an allegedly fraudulent sweepstakes- entry club has agreed to settle federal charges stemming from her role in...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ 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...

KKR Associates, L.P., of New York City, on behalf of itself and other respondents, has asked the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission to reopen and modify a 1989 consent order to delete a provision that requires...

General Motors Corporation (GM) has petitioned the Â鶹´«Ã½ 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...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½ 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...

Onkyo U.S.A. Corporation, a manufacturer of audio components, has agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that it violated a 1982 FTC order under which it agreed not to fix prices or engage...

Kraft Foods, Inc., as successor to National Dairy Products Corporation, has petitioned the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission to set aside a 1967 order that prohibits Kraft from discriminating in price between...

William J Baer, Director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ 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...

Dallas, Texas-based Jani-King International, Inc. has agreed to pay a $100,000 civil penalty as part of a settlement of Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that it failed to provide poten- tial...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has terminated two consent orders against the Rubber Manufacturers Association, Inc. The orders -- one entered in 1948 and one entered in 1962 -- followed charges that the...