Konkurencja i konsument · 13.02.1995

Levi Strauss & Co.; Prohibited Trade Practices and Affirmative Corrective Actions

This order reopens a 1978 consent order that settled allegations that the respondent had engaged in a number of anticompetitive practices, including fixing the resale prices at which retailers sold its products, and modifies the consent order by adding a provision to clarify that the order does not prohibit conduct by the respondent that is necessary to form and operate wholly-owned retail stores, or retail stores partially owned by the respondent in lawful joint ventures. The Commission found that the respondent had satisfactorily met its burden of showing that changed conditions of fact required the modification.