[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 154 (Thursday, August 10, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 40859]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-19811]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division


United States v. FTD Corporation; Florists' Transworld Delivery, 
Inc.; and FTD Association; Proposed Enforcement Order

    Notice is hereby given that a proposed enforcement order has been 
filed with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of 
Michigan in a civil antitrust case, United States v. FTD Corporation, 
et al., Supp. to Civ. Action No. 56-15748.
    On August 2, 1995, the United States filed a petition for an order 
to show cause why the respondents FTD Corporation, Florists' Transworld 
Delivery, Inc. (``FTDI'') and FTD Association should not be found in 
civil contempt for violating a consent decree entered by the court in 
1990. That decree prohibited FTD, then a single entity, from exploiting 
its position to induce florists to forgo membership in competing floral 
wire associations. The United States' petition states that the three 
respondents violated the decree by promoting FTDI's incentive program 
called ``FTD Only.'' Under the proposed enforcement order, agreed to by 
the parties, FTD will stop its practice of inducing member florists to 
use its floral wire service exclusively and will not adopt any similar 
program in the future. In addition, the corporate ties between FTDI and 
FTD Association will be significantly curtailed.
    The public is invited to comment on the proposed enforcement order. 
Comments should be addressed to Christopher J. Kelly, Acting Chief, 
Civil Task Force I, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, 
3525 7th Street, N.W., Room 400, Washington, D.C. 20530 (202/514-8348). 
Comments must be received within sixty days.
    Copies of the papers filed with the court are available for 
inspection in Room 207 of the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust 
Division, 325 7th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20530 (telephone: (202) 
514-2481), and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District 
Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 231 West Lafayette Street, 
Detroit, Michigan 48226 (313/226-7200). Copies of any of these 
materials may be obtained from the Antitrust Division upon request and 
payment of the copying fee set by Department of Justice regulations.
Rebecca P. Dick,
Acting Deputy Director of Operations.
[FR Doc. 95-19811 Filed 8-9-95; 8:45 am]
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