Commission Actions

The following is an excerpt from the statement of Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky and Commissioners Sheila F. Anthony and Mozelle W. Thompson explaining why they believe the consent...

Service Corporation International (SCI), the largest owner of funeral homes and cemeteries in the world, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its proposed acquisition of Equity...

Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application for approval of a transaction from the following: LandAmerica's...

Advertising and promotional expenditures for smokeless tobacco products reached $150.4 million dollars in 1997, according to a biennial Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress. The $150.4 million...

To combat the latest wrinkle in hi-tech fraud on the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission has charged three individuals and eight businesses with billing or debiting consumers’ credit card accounts...

ABB, one of the world's leading manufacturers of analytical instruments used in process manufacturing applications, has agreed to divest certain assets it would acquire in its $1.1 billion purchase of...

Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application for approval of a transaction from the following: The Commission...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky has named Jeremy Bulow, Ph.D., to head the agency's Bureau of Economics. Bulow will oversee the bureau's role in providing economic analysis of the...

The President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion today introduced 1-888-USA-4-Y2K, a new free Y2K information line, and other Council initiatives for providing consumers information about the Year 2000...