[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 125 (Thursday, June 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33509-33510]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-16480]


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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Dkt. C-3253]


KKR Associates, L.P.; Prohibited Trade Practices and Affirmative 
Corrective Actions

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Set aside order.

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SUMMARY: This order reopens a 1989 consent order--which required KKR 
Associates to divest, within twelve months, certain assets and 
businesses associated with RJR Nabisco or Beatrice/Hunt-Wesson, and 
prohibited them from making certain acquisitions without prior 
Commission approval--and sets aside the prior approval provisions of 
the consent order pursuant to the Commission's Prior Approval Policy 
Statement. Under that Policy Statement, the Commission presumes that 
the public interest requires reopening the

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prior approval provisions in outstanding merger orders and making them 
consistent with the policy.

DATES: Consent order issued June 13, 1989. Set aside order issued 
October 31, 1995.\1\

    \1\ Copies of the Consent Order and Set Aside Order are 
available from the Commission's Public Reference Branch, H-130, 6th 
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Piotrowski, FTC/S-2115, 
Washington, D.C. 20580. (202) 326-2623.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Matter of KKR Associates, L.P. The 
prohibited trade practices and/or corrective actions are removed as 
indicated.

(Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interpret or apply sec. 5, 38 
Stat. 719, as amended; sec. 7, 38 Stat. 731, as amended; 15 U.S.C. 
45, 18)
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-16480 Filed 6-26-96; 8:45 am]
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