Forster Mfg. Co., Inc.

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IN THE MATTER OF FORSTER MFG. CO., INC., ET AL.

ORDER, OPINIONS, ETC. , IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF SEC. 2 (a) OF THE CLAYTON ACT Docket 7207. Complaint, July 1958-Decision, July, 1965 Order, pursuant to remand by the Court of Appeals, First Circuit, dated July , 1964 , 335 F. 2d 47 , 7 S.&D. 943, modifying an earlier order, dated March 18 , 1963 , 62 F. C. 852, which prohibited a Farmington, Maine manufacturer of woodenware products from discriminating in price be. tween its competing customers selling at retail by specifically enumerat- FORSTER MFG. CO. , INC. , ET AL. 191 189 Syllabus 2. The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction of the subject matter of this proceeding and of the respondent. ORDER It is ordered That respondent The American Rolex Watch Corporation, a corporation, and its officers, directors, employees agents, and representatives, directly or through any corporate or other device, in, or in connection with, the offering for sale, sale or distribution in commerce, as "commerce" is defined in the Clayton Act, as amended, of watches, watch bracelets, watch accessories and other products, do forthwith cease and desist from: Paying or contracting for the payment of anything of value to or for the benefit of any customer as compensation or in consideration for any services or facilities consisting of advertising or other publicity in a catalog, newspaper, broadcast or telecast or in any other advertising medium, furnished or distributed, directly or through any corporate or other device by such customer, in connection with the processing, handling, sale, or offering for sale of any products manufactured, imported, sold, or offered for sale by respondent, unless such payment or consideration is made available on proportionally equal terms to al1 other customers competing in the distribution of such products.

It is further ordered That the respondent herein shall, within sixty (60) days after service upon it of this order, file with the Commission a report in writing setting forth in detail the manner and form in which it has complied with this order.