Combines Investigation Act, 1923: Investigation Into the Proprietary Articles Trade Association, an Alleged Combine of Wholesale and Retail Druggists and Manufacturers, Established to Fix and Maintain Resale Prices of Proprietary Medicines and Toilet Articles : Interim Report of RegistrarF. A. Acland, printer, 1926 - 37 páginas |
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97 articles advertised price agreement Articles Trade Association Association's list buying cent above cost Centaur Company chain stores Chemical Company CHIG UNIVE Combines Investigation Act Company of Canada consumer Council dealer department stores distribution costs distributors Drug & Chemical drug stores effect firms FMIC GAN GAN MICH GAN MICHI GAN UNIV UNIVE gross margin Harvard Bureau jobber less Limited low-price stores Lyman median Medicine Company medicines and toilet methods MIC CHIG MICHIG GAN MICHIG UNIV MICHIGAN minimum prices National Drug NIVE Number of articles operating costs operating expenses Ottawa P. A. T. A. list P.A.T.A. minimum patent medicines PETER HEENAN price-cutting profit Proprietary Articles Trade reduced representing resale price retail druggists Section selling price stock-turn Stuart Chase Toronto Toronto turn-over unit retailers UNIV CHIG UNIV ERSIT UNIV UNIV GAN UNIV UNIV MIC UNIV MICHIG UNIV SITY UNIV UNIVE UNIV UNIV Walkerville wholesale and retail wholesale druggists
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Página 34 - ... discussion of matters of common interest to the branches of the trades represented, with a view to decision, and, if necessary, co-operation.
Página 30 - Commerce, operated, or were likely to operate " to the detriment of or against the interest of the public, consumers, producers, or others...
Página 9 - ... (a) are mergers, trusts or monopolies, so called; or (6) result from the purchase, lease, or other acquisition by any person of any control over or interest in the whole or part of the business of any other person; or (c) result from any actual or tacit contract, agreement, arrangement, or combination which has or is designed to have...
Página 19 - Administrator shall conduct a study and shall submit a report to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the United States House of Representatives...
Página 37 - merchant prince" of former days has been displaced by the "captain of industry," and the latter in turn is now challenged. 1 The jobber no longer dominates the entire productive and distributive process. In many fields he seems to be disappearing altogether. 2 His function of " interpreting the demand " has been transferred and transformed by the insistent urge of the manufacturer to "create a demand." The "regular retailer" has likewise suffered, and under the influence of much the same forces....
Página 34 - The taking of such steps as the Association may be advised are legal to deal with extreme cutting of prices and to give advice and render assistance to its members in preventing substitution. (3) The doing of all such other things as may appear to be of benefit to the trade.
Página 30 - ... operates or is likely to operate to the detriment of the public, it should be restrained.
Página 9 - The plain fact is that one of the great wastes of business is due to the incredibly inefficient methods of distribution. Today an article usually doubles in value between production costs and what the consumer pays. This does not mean that the distributor is a heartless profiteer. Taken by and large the retailer's profit is not great. The indefensibly high prices of today are the result of inefficient production and inefficient distribution. The difference between what prices are today and what they...
Página 27 - ... a quarter century or half century from now. But the only promising way of getting a more effective distributing process is to let any and every experiment be tried by anyone who thinks he can do the thing more cheaply. And this would seem to be a decisive reason against encouraging the fixedprice system. It stands in the way of the experimenter. As regards the spread between producer and consumer, it looks to the maintenance of the status quo.
Página 9 - ... (iv) enhancing the price, rental or cost of article, rental, storage or transportation, or (v) preventing or lessening competition in, or substantially controlling within any particular area or district or generally, production, manufacture, purchase, barter, sale, storage, transportation, insurance or supply, or (vi) otherwise restraining or injuring trade or commerce...