[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 10864]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-4867]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Dkt. C-3552]
New England Juvenile Retailers Association, et al.; Prohibited
Trade Practices, and Affirmative Corrective Actions
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION: Consent order.
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SUMMARY: In settlement of alleged violations of federal law prohibiting
unfair acts and practices and unfair methods of competition, this
consent order prohibits, among other things, a Massachusetts
association of retailers from combining, agreeing or conspiring to: fix
or maintain prices or the terms of sale for juvenile products; engage
in or threaten boycotts in order to influence a manufacturer's decision
as to how or to whom it distributes its products; or use coercion by
means of actual or threatened refusals to deal in order to compel a
juvenile products manufacturer to adopt or refrain from adopting any
marketing method for its products. The consent order also requires the
dissolution of the association within sixty days and requires the
association to send a letter, acknowledging the consent order with the
Commission and outlining its terms, to the manufacturers it allegedly
threatened to boycott.
DATES: Complaint and Order issued January 18, 1995.\1\
\1\Copies of the Complaint, the Decision and Order, and
Commissioner Azcuenaga's statement are available from the
Commission's Public Reference Branch, H-130, 6th Street &
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20580.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Phoebe Morse, Boston Regional Office, Federal Trade Commission, 101
Merrimac St., Suite 810, Boston, MA 02114-4719. (617) 424-5960.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On Tuesday, November 1, 1994, there was
published in the Federal Register, 59 FR 54604, a proposed consent
agreement with analysis In the Matter of New England Juvenile Retailers
Association, et al., for the purpose of soliciting public comment.
Interested parties were given sixty (60) days in which to submit
comments, suggestions or objections regarding the proposed form of the
order.
No comments having been received, the Commission has ordered the
issuance of the complaint in the form contemplated by the agreement,
made its jurisdictional findings and entered an order to cease and
desist, as set forth in the proposed consent agreement, in disposition
of this proceeding.
(Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interprets or applies sec. 5,
38 Stat. 719, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 45)
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-4867 Filed 2-27-95; 8:45 am]
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