Commission approval of proposed divestitures: The Commission has approved two petitions from Service Corporation International (SCI) and Alderwoods Group, Inc. regarding proposed divestitures related to SCI’s recent acquisition of Alderwoods. In the FTC’s consent agreement and order allowing the transaction to proceed with conditions, SCI and Alderwoods were required to divest a range of funeral […]
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FTC Approves Petitions for Proposed Divestitures in Matter of SCI/Alderwoods
Commission approval of proposed divestitures: The Commission has approved two petitions from Service Corporation International (SCI) and Alderwoods Group, Inc. regarding proposed divestitures related to SCI’s recent acquisition of Alderwoods. In the FTC’s consent agreement and order allowing the transaction to proceed with conditions, SCI and Alderwoods were required to divest a range of funeral […]
FTC Approves Petitions for Proposed Divestitures in Matter of SCI/Alderwoods
Commission approval of proposed divestitures: The Commission has approved two petitions from Service Corporation International (SCI) and Alderwoods Group, Inc. regarding proposed divestitures related to SCI’s recent acquisition of Alderwoods. In the FTC’s consent agreement and order allowing the transaction to proceed with conditions, SCI and Alderwoods were required to divest a range of funeral […]
FTC Provides U.S. House with Overview of Recent Antitrust Activities
Presenting Federal Trade Commission testimony today before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary’s Task Force on Antitrust and Competition Policy, Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras provided an overview of the FTC’s recent antitrust enforcement activities. Since the beginning of 2007, the Commission has had to be especially resourceful, as the number of premerger […]
FTC Provides U.S. House with Overview of Recent Antitrust Activities
Presenting Federal Trade Commission testimony today before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary’s Task Force on Antitrust and Competition Policy, Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras provided an overview of the FTC’s recent antitrust enforcement activities. Since the beginning of 2007, the Commission has had to be especially resourceful, as the number of premerger […]
FTC Provides U.S. House with Overview of Recent Antitrust Activities
Presenting Federal Trade Commission testimony today before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary’s Task Force on Antitrust and Competition Policy, Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras provided an overview of the FTC’s recent antitrust enforcement activities. Since the beginning of 2007, the Commission has had to be especially resourceful, as the number of premerger […]
Purveyor of Envelope-Stuffing Scheme Banned from Selling Any Work at Home Opportunities Again
A company and its owner, accused of tricking consumers into paying for an envelope-stuffing business opportunity, are banned from selling any work-at-home business opportunities again. The Federal Trade Commission alleged that they falsely promised that they would pay consumers $7 per envelope stuffed and that consumers would earn a substantial income. The operation will pay […]
Purveyor of Envelope-Stuffing Scheme Banned from Selling Any Work at Home Opportunities Again
A company and its owner, accused of tricking consumers into paying for an envelope-stuffing business opportunity, are banned from selling any work-at-home business opportunities again. The Federal Trade Commission alleged that they falsely promised that they would pay consumers $7 per envelope stuffed and that consumers would earn a substantial income. The operation will pay […]
Purveyor of Envelope-Stuffing Scheme Banned from Selling Any Work at Home Opportunities Again
A company and its owner, accused of tricking consumers into paying for an envelope-stuffing business opportunity, are banned from selling any work-at-home business opportunities again. The Federal Trade Commission alleged that they falsely promised that they would pay consumers $7 per envelope stuffed and that consumers would earn a substantial income. The operation will pay […]
FTC Staff Advises Rochester Physician Organization That It Will Not Recommend Antitrust Challenge to Proposal to Provide Member Physicians’ Services Through “Clinical Integration” Program
Staff of the Federal Trade Commission have advised the Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association, Inc. (GRIPA), a multi-specialty physician practice association that includes competing primary care and specialist physicians that practice in the three-county greater Rochester, New York, area, that it has no present intention to recommend a challenge to the organization’s proposed operation as […]