Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted for public comment a proposed consent order that would remedy the likely anticompetitive effects of the proposed merger of The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow")...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent order regarding the following: El Paso Energy Corporation and PG&E Corporation. The Commission vote to finalize the consent...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a public workshop on March 13, 2001 to explore how businesses merge and exchange detailed consumer information and how such information is used commercially...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CARU), the children's arm of the advertising industry's self...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit in U. S. District Court seeking to halt false and misleading advertising for zMax auto additives and has asked the court to order refunds to consumers who...

Not all loans or lenders are created equal. As part of this year's National Consumer Protection Week (February 5-10, 2001) campaign to help consumers avoid abusive lending practices, the Federal Trade...

The Federal Trade Commission today accepted a final consent agreement with Entergy Corporation ("Entergy") and Entergy-Koch, LP ("EKLP"), a limited partnership owned equally by Entergy and Koch...

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission's Division of Financial Practices announced today the beginning of "Operation Detect Pretext," an effort to protect consumers from firms that obtain their...

The Commission has determined to close an investigation related to the following matter: SmithKline Beecham/Glaxo Wellcome . Upon acceptance for public comment of the consent agreement reached with...

Jodie Bernstein, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, announced that from the FTC's perspective, the 2000 online holiday shopping season seems to have gone more...

Home Professions, Inc., Telesalescenter.Com., and their owner, Michael Petok, charged by the Federal Trade Commission as part of a nationwide crackdown on fraudulent business opportunities, have...

Starting today, consumers, reporters, students, researchers, law enforcers and others will be able to tap into a new website for a wealth of statistics about fraud, fraud on the Internet, and identity...

Darryl Smith, the principal of American Consumer Membership Services, Inc. (ACMS), has agreed to a permanent ban from engaging in any telemarketing, or in the advertising, promotion, marketing, or...

Promoters of a pyramid scheme that disguised itself as a legitimate multi-level marketing business have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the scheme violated federal law. The...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a proposed consent order that would allow the $16 billion merger of El Paso Energy Corporation ("El Paso") and the Coastal Corporation ("Coastal"), while...

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Defense will create the first online system designed specifically to identify and collect...

An investment trading software company that used theoretical past earnings charts to sell a high-priced software program has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its claims were...

Under the terms of a proposed consent agreement reached with the Federal Trade Commission and announced today, Sharp Electronics Corp. ("Sharp"), one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers...

On February 1, 2001, significant changes will take effect regarding the filing requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), which requires certain...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with the following: R.S. of Houston Workshop, Ronald J. Schoemmell and Valdimar Thorkelsson . The Commission vote...