96-15487. Food Service Equipment Industry Inc., et al.; Prohibited Trade Practices and Affirmative Corrective Actions

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 119 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 31118]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15487]



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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Docket No. 4433]


Food Service Equipment Industry Inc., et al.; Prohibited Trade 
Practices and Affirmative Corrective Actions

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Set aside order.

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SUMMARY: This order reopens a 1941 consent order--which prohibited the 
Food Service from selling certain equipment through anyone other than 
recognized dealers, and from selling equipment directly to buyers--and 
sets aside the consent order, as to respondent Food Service Equipment 
Distributors Association, pursuant to the Commission's Sunset Policy 
Statement, under which the Commission presumes that the public interest 
requires terminating competition orders that are more than 20 years 
old.

DATES: Consent order issued October 15, 1941. Set aside order issued 
September 21, 1995.\1\

    \1\ Copies of the Consent Order and Set Aside Order are 
available from the Commission's Public Reference Branch, H-130, 6th 
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roberta Baruch, FTC/S-2115, 
Washington, D.C. 20580. [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Matter of Food Service Equipment 
Industry Inc., et al. The prohibited trade practices and/or corrective 
actions are removed as indicated.

(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. 96-15487 Filed 6-18-96; 8:45 am]
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