an agreement between suppliers or manufacturers and retailers, restricting the price that retailers can ask for a product or service. Resale price maintenance was designed to enable all retailers to make a profit. The Resale Prices Act now prevents this practice on the grounds that it is uncompetitive. Now, unless they can prove that resale price maintenance is in the public interest, manufacturers can only recommend a retail price.
Two years ago Congress strapped a muzzle on Justice Department antitrusters by denying them use of any Federal funds to advocate a relaxation of the legal prohibition against Fair Trade-style resale price maintenance conspiracies by manufacturers.
Minimum resale price maintenance RPM -- i.e., an agreement setting a minimum or "floor" price or range of prices -- is per se illegal under U.S. antitrust law. To be sure, in Monsanto Co. v. Spray-Rite Service Corp., 465 U.S. 752 (1984), Minimum resale price...
WASHINGTON -- Discount industry leaders have vigorously and openly opposed the curious reluctance of Federal antitrusters to enfoce the law against resale price maintenance RPM conspiracies by manufacturers.
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Sep 04, 2006 (Inside Retailing - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian kitchen products distributor, Cambur Industries, has been fined for resale price maintenance. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission brought proceedings against Cambur in Sep 04, 2006 (Inside Retailing - ABIX via COMTEX) --...
Federal Trade Commission antitrusters took another baby step toward enforcing the law against resale price fixing conspiracies that punish discount stores and increase costs to the public.
One of the key recommendations from the Myer inquiry into contemporary visual arts and craft, in its September 2002 report, was that a resale right for visual artists should be introduced in Australia. A resale right entitles an artist (or the artist's heirs) to receive a percentage of the resale...
WASHINGTON -- After months of official silence on the issue of resale price maintenance RPM, Federal Trade Commission economists launched a fresh offensive aimed at undercutting the law against Fair Trade-style RPM conspiracies.
SAN DIEGO -- Cardium Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB:CDTP) announced today that the Securities and Exchange Commission has declared effective its resale registration statement on Form S-3 relating to the resale by certain of its security holders of shares of Cardium's common stock. The registration statement registers the resale by the selling...
This article is about a survey which was conducted during July and August 2001 by the Plant Maintenance Resource Center. A number of key observations have been made: Respondent organizations spent around one-third of their maintenance budget on maintenance contractors, on average. This indicates that the maintenance contracting market is...
QUINCY, Ill. -- Titan International, Inc. (NYSE:TWI) announced today that the Securities and Exchange Commission has declared effective its resale registration statement relating to the resale by selling securityholders of its 5.25% senior convertible notes due 2009 and the common shares issuable upon conversion of the notes.
OMAHA, Neb. -- FindEx.com, Inc. (OTCBB:FIND) announced today that the Securities and Exchange Commission has declared effective the company's Form SB-2 resale registration statement covering the resale of up to an aggregate of 47,491,666 shares of the company's common stock, consisting of 23,341,666 issued and outstanding shares of common stock...
Recent FCC decisions show that the FCC has given up on resale as a way to promote competition in local telecommunications. The 1996 Telecommunications Act embraces resale, but it also gives the FCC a way out. The FCC has taken that option, deciding Recent...
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