Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.

Volume 64 · 64 F.T.C. 1273

Citation: 64 F.T.C. 1273
Docket: 8501
Complaint: 1962-06-13
Decision: 1964-02-28
Document type: consent order
Case type: antitrust
Statutes: Clayton Act s2 / Robinson-Patman
Industry: photographic lighting products
Outcome: consent order entered
Relief: cease_and_desist; compliance_reporting
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Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., 64 F.T.C. 1273 (1964). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v064-0060

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In the Matter of

SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PRODUCTS, INC.

CONSENT ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF SEC. 2(d) OF THE CLAYTON ACT

Docket 8501. Complaint, June 13, 1962—Decision, Feb. 28, 1964 *

Consent order requiring a Waltham, Mass., manufacturer of photographic lighting products, including flash lamps, flood lamps and projection lamps, to cease violating Sec. 2(d) of the Clayton Act by such practices as paying a membership service corporation composed of wholesale druggists at least $18,000 as compensation for advertising and at least $2,700 for promotional or other services furnished in connection with the sale of respondent's products, while not making comparable allowances available to all competitors of the favored wholesale druggists.

COMPLAINT

The Federal Trade Commission, having reason to believe that the party respondent named in the caption hereof, and hereinafter more particularly described, has violated and is now violating the provisions of subsection (d) of Section 2 of the Clayton Act, as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act (U.S.C. Title 15, Sec. 13), hereby issues its complaint, stating its charges with respect thereto as follows:

PARAGRAPH 1. Respondent Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., is a corporation organized, existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Delaware with its office and principal place of business located at 63 Second Avenue, Waltham, Massachusetts.

PAR. 2. Respondent is now and has been engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling and distributing flash lamps, flood lamps, projection lamps and other miscellaneous type of photographic lighting products. It sells its products to drug and sundries wholesalers located throughout the United States. The total sales of re-