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The Paper Craft Corporation

Volume 63 · 63 F.T.C. 1965

Citation
63 F.T.C. 1965
Docket
8489
Complaint
1962-06-04
Decision
1963-12-24
Document type
opinion
Case type
consumer protection
Statutes
FTC Act (section 5)
Industry
gift wrapping products industry
Outcome
cease and desist
Relief
cease_and_desist; compliance_reporting
Source
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Order status: unknown. Sunset may be extended by the latest qualifying federal-court complaint alleging an order violation; complaints, dismissal/appeal outcomes, and respondent-specific extensions are not fully tracked.

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THE PAPER CRAFT CORPORATION ORDER, OPINIONS : ETG. IX REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE CO::BIISSION ACT Docket 8489. Complaint, June 1. 1962-Decision, Dee, , 1963 Order requiring a Pittsburgh, Pa., 11l-l1ufacturer of gift ' wrappings, ribbons and related products, to cease misrepresenting the size of rolls of gift wrapping papers by such practices as packaging the rolls in display boxes with two inches of empty space at either end, thus creating the false impression that tbe rolls were as ,vide as the containers. CO:\IPLAIXT Pursuant to the pI'oyisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act and by virtue of the authority vested in it by said Act, the Federal Trade Commission, having reason to believe that The Papercraft Corporation, a corporation, hereinafter referred to as the respondent has violated the provisions of sflid Act, and it appearing to the Com. mission that a, proceeding by it in ret;pect thereof -would be in the public interest, hereby issues its cOlnp1nint. stating its charges ill that respect as follows:

P ARACHAI'H 1. Respondent, The Papercraft Corporation, is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, with its offce, and principal place of business located at 5S50 Centre A venue\ Pittsburgh Pe111sylvania. PAH. 2. Respondent is now, and for some time last past has been engaged in the manufacture, offering for sale and sale of gift wrappings, ribbons and relnred products to distributors anc1retailers for resale to the consuming pulJlic..

PATI. 3. In the course and conduct of its business, the respondent HO\V causes, and for some time 1,lst past llfs caused, its gift wrappings and related a,cceswries \"hen sold, to be shipped fl' urn its places of 1m81s in Pennsyln1.in to purchasers thereof located in various other THE PAPE)HCHAFT CORP. 1965 1950 Complaint terms to all other customers competing in the distribution or resale of such products.

It i8 ju,.thel' onlered That respondent shall, "within sixty (60) days after service upon it of this order file with the Commission a report in "\writing, e-,tting forth in detail the manner and form in w111ch it

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