Hans & Greiff, Inc.

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IN THE MATTEI, OF HANS & GREIFF, INC., ET AL.

CONSENT ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION AND THE FUR PRODUCTS LABELING ACTS Docket 7.161. Complaint, Jan. 1959--Decisl:on, Apt' , 1959 Consent order requiring manufacturing furriers in New Yark City to cease violating the Fur Products Labeling Act by failing to comply with invoicing requirements and by advertising jn letter", to customers in which they represented certain designated amounts to be wholesale market values and prices without maintaining adequate records disclosing the facts upon which such representations were based. S. F. HOt,se Esq. for the Commission.

Respondents, 1J1'O se.

INITIAL DECISION BY HOBERT L. PIPER, HEARING EXAMINER The Federal Trade Commission issued its complaint against the above-named respondents on January 15, 1959, charging them with having violated the Fur Products Labeling Act the rules and regulations issued thereunder, and the Federal Trade Commission Act, by falsely invoicing and misrepresenting their fur products. Respondents appeared and entered into an agreement dated February 20, 1958, cont.aining a consent order to cease and desist, disposing of all the issues in this proceeding without further hearings, which agreement has been duly approved by the Director of the Bureau of Litigation . Said agreement has been submitted to the undersigned, heretofore duly designated to act as hearing examiner herein, for his consideration in accordance with 93.25 of the Hules of Practice of the Commission. Respondents, pursuant to the aforesaid agreement, have admitted all of the jurisdictional allegations of the complaint and agreed that the record may be taken as if findings of jurisdictional facts had been made duly in accordance with such allegations. Said agreement further provides that respondents waive all further procedural steps before the hearing examiner or the Commission, including the making of findings of fact or conclusions of law and the right to challenge or contest the validity of the order to cease and desist entered in accordance with such agreement. It has also been agreed that the record herein shall HANS & GRF;IFF, INC., ET AL. 1699 1698 Order consist solely of the complaint and said agreement, that the agreement shall not become a part of the offcial record unless and until it hecomes a part of the decision of the Commission, that said agreement is for settement purposes only and does not constitute an admission by respondents that they have violated the law as alleged in the complaint, that said order to cease and desist shall have the same force and effect as if entered after full hearing and may be altered, modified, or set aside in the manner provided for other orders, and that the complaint may be used in construing the terms of the order. This proceeding having now come on for final consideration on the complaint and the aforesaid agreement containing the consent order, and it appearing that the order and agreement cover a1l of thc allegations of the complaint and provide for appropriate disposition of this proceeding, the agreement is hereby accepted and ordered filed upon this decision and said agreement becoming part of the Commission s decision pursuant to 993. 21 and 25 of the Rules of Practice, and the hearing examiner accordingly makes the following findings, for jurisdictional purposes, and order:

1. Respondent Hans & Greiff, Inc. , is a corporation existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the State of "ew York, with its offce and principal place of business located at 130 West 30th Street, New York, 0f. Individual respondents Irving Hans and Harry Greiff are president and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of said corporate respondent and formulate, control and direct the acts, practices and policies of the corporate respondent. Their address is the same as that of the corporate respondent. 2. The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction of the suhject matter of this proceeding and of the respondents hereinabove named. The complaint states a cause of action against said respondents under the Fur Products Labeling Act and the Federal Trade Commission Act and this proceeding is in the interest of the public.

ORDER It is order-d That Hans & Greiff, Inc., a corporation, and its offcers, and Irving Hans and Harry Greiff, individually and as offcers of said corporation, and respondents' representatives Decision 55 F.

agents and employees, directly or through any corporate or other device, in connection \with the introduction, or manufacture for introduction into commerce, or the sale, advertising or offering for sale in commerce or the transportation or distribution in commerce, of fur products, or in connection with the sale, manufacture for sale, advertising, offering for sale, transportation or distribution of fur products which have been made in whole or in part of fur which has been shipped and received in commerce as Hcommerce fur" and "fur product" are defined in the Fur Products Labeling Act, do forthwith cease and desist from: 1. Falsely or deceptively invoicing fur products by: A. Failing to furnish invoices to purchasers of fur products showing:

(1) The name or names of the animal or animals producing the fur or furs contained in the fur product as set forth in the Fur Products ame Guide and as prescribed under the Rules and Regulations;

(2) That the fur product contains or is composed of used fur, when such is the fact;

(3) That the fur product contains or is composed of bleached dyed or otherwise artificially colored fur, when such is the fact; (4) That the fur product is composed in whole or in substantial part of paws, tails, bellies, or waste fur, when such is the fact;

(5) The name and address of the person issuing such invoice; (6) The name of the country of origin of any imported furs contained in a fur product.

E. Setting forth information required under Section 5(b) (1) of the Fur Products Laheling Act and the Rules and Regulations promulgated thereunder in abbreviated form. 2. Making claims and representations in advertisements and letters or by other means respecting prices and values of fur products unless there are maintained by respondents full and adequate records showing the facts upon which such claims and representations are based.

DECISION OF THE COMMISSION AND ORDER TO FILE REPORT OF COMPLIANCE Pursuant to Section 3.21 of the Commission s Rules of Practice, the initial decision of the hearing examiner shall, on the 16th day of April 1959, become the decision of the Commission; and, accordingly:

HANS & GREIFF, INC., ET AL. 1701 1698 Decision It is ordered That the above-named respondents shall, within sixty (GO) days after service upon them of this order, file with the Commission a report in writing, setting forth in detail the manner and form in which they have complied with the order to cease and desist.

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