Newbern Groves, Inc.
Volume 58 · 58 F.T.C. 939
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Newbern Groves, Inc., 58 F.T.C. 939 (1961). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v058-0150
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v,which they have complied with the order to cease and desist. IN TI-IE MATTER OF NEWBERN GROVES, INC.
CON"SENT miler, ETC. IX REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATIO:- OF SEC. 2 ( c) OF THE CLA YTOX ACT Docket 8016. Complaint, June 1960-Decision, May 1961 Consent order requiring a Tampa, Fla. , packer of citrus frnit to cease Yiolating Sec. 2(c) of the Clayton Act by paying brokerage, or its equivalent, to customers making purchases fol' theil' o,vn accounts for resale. CO?lIPLAINT The Federal Trade Commission, having reason to believe that the party named in the caption hereof, and hereimdter more particularly described, has been and is now violating the provisions of subsection (c) of Section 2 of the Clayton Act, as amended (C. Title 15, Section 13), hereby issues its complaint, stating its charges with respect thereto as follows:
PARAGRAH 1. Respondent Newbern Groves, Inc. , hercinaHer sometimes referred to as respondent or respondent Kewbern, is corporation, organized existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Florida, with its offce and principal place of business located at Tampa, Florida, ,with mailing address as Post Offce Box 9157, Tampa 4, Florida. PAR. 2. Respondent is nO\v, and for the past sevcra1 years has been, engaged in the business of packing, selling and distributing citrus fruit, such as oranges, tangerines and grapefruit, as well as other fruit products, all of which are hereinafter referred to as citrus frit or frit products. Respondent sells and distributes its citrus fruit through brokers, as well as direct, to customers located KEWBER:L"" GROVES, I TC. 939 9a6 Complaint lieu thereof, upon or in connection with any saJc of citrus fruit citrus juice, or fruit products to such buyer for his own account. DECISION OF TH COMMISSION AND ORDER TO FILE HEPOHT 01" CO::Il'LIAXCE Pursuant to Section 3.21 of the Commission s Rules of Practice. the initial decision of the hearing examiner shall, on the 19th day of :VIay, 1961, become the decision of the Conw1ission; and, accordingly: It i8 ordered That respondents herein shall, within sixty (60) 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