The H. J. Heinz Company (), commonly known as Heinz and famous for its " 57 Varieties " slogan and its ketchup, is a U. S Consumer packaged goods company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Another innovation, the August Third People's Consumer Goods Production Movement, is centred on consumer goods production.

Consumer groups argue that statutes of repose on consumer goods provide a disincentive for manufacturers to build durable products and to notify consumers of product defects as the manufacturers become aware of them.

Consumer groups also argue that such statutes of repose disproportionately affect poorer people, since they are more likely to own older goods.

Official indices report a Consumer Price Index increase of 30 % in Beijing between 1987 – 88, leading to panic among salaried workers that they could no longer afford staple goods.

Consumer goods such as pharmaceuticals, perfume, fashion clothing can use either type of authentication method to prevent counterfeit goods from taking advantage of a popular brand's reputation ( damaging the brand owner's sales and reputation ).

Category: Consumer goods

While the supply shortages of consumer goods characteristic of the 1980s went away ( see Consumer goods in the Soviet Union ), this was not only related to the opening of Russia's market to imports in the early 1990s but also to the impoverishment of the Russian people in the 1990s.

Category: Consumer goods

Consumer demand surveys are interview based statistical surveys that measure the percentage of households that will buy a car, white goods, PCs, TVs, home furnishings, kitchenware or toys in, for example, the next three-month period.

* Consumer electronics, or Shiny goods

This law is called " Ley de Proteccion al Consumidor " or " Consumer Protection Act of Honduras ", approved by Legislative Decree No. 24-2008, and it regulates the activities of any goods and services providers stating the principles that they must follow in order to operate in this country.

The Wholesale Price Index focuses on the price of goods traded between corporations, rather than goods bought by consumers, which is measured by the Consumer Price Index.

Consumer choice is a theory of microeconomics that relates preferences for consumption goods and services to consumption expenditures and ultimately to consumer demand curves.

* Consumer goods in the Soviet Union ( for information on queues in the Soviet Union )

The most common type of market basket is the basket of consumer goods, used to define the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ).

Consumer goods production, much diminished, was largely directed toward supplying the German armed forces.

* Consumer goods: Telstra dealer, Radio Rentals, Home Hardware, EB Games

After all ten rounds, the photographer with the highest score in the league table is crowned the Amateur Photographer Of the Year and wins £ 5, 000 worth of Canon vouchers to be remdeamed against the purchase of personal photographic goods ( defined as Canon Consumer Imaging Products ).

Consumer goods business

* Consumer goods

It is divided into two parts, the first being " The Consumer ", a series of short stories from the early 1990s, the second, " Various Traps, Some Weaknesses ", made up mostly of prose-poems and vignettes, all dating from 1983 – 1986.

By the early 1990s, Aerotech Consumer Aerospace, LOC / Precision, and Public Missiles Limited ( PML ) had taken up leadership positions, while a host of engine manufacturers provided ever larger motors, and at much higher costs.

An early admirer of Jean Baudrillard ’ s Consumer Society ( 1970 ), Ritzer is a leading proponent of the study of consumption.

Automotive writer and authority Richard Langworth has written glowingly of the early step-down models stating that " they're one ( sic ) of greatest " autos of the era in articles for Consumer Guide and Collectible Automobile.

In early 2009, the Financial Services Consultative Consumer Panel, tasked with monitoring the performance of the Central Bank, said that most consumers have lost “ significant amounts of money ” due to the inadequacies of the financial regulatory structure.

By Christmas 2002, then-publisher, Strategy First, had stopped paying royalties for Uplink ( they would later file a Consumer Proposal AKA Chapter 13 bankruptcy filing, but were then acquired by Silverstar Holdings in early 2005 ); even with the cash flow from direct sales, Introversion ran out of money in the middle of 2003.

Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008.

Announced at the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ), and released in early 2004, it was originally positioned as a competitor to Apple's iPod.

Kelsey's has a licensing agreement through early 2011 with CBS Consumer Products for the rights to the theme song from the 1980s sitcom Cheers, which the chain says could lead to " other opportunities " in the future.

Emerson Radio Corp. was incorporated in 1915 as Emerson Phonograph Co. ( NAICS: 421620 Consumer Electronics Wholesaling ), based in New York City, by an early recording engineer and executive, Victor Hugo Emerson, who was at one time employed by Columbia Records.

" Consumer Communism ", based on present global economic conditions, raised Polish living standards and expectations, but the program faltered suddenly in the early 1970s because of worldwide recession and increased oil prices.

Perhaps his most critical early contribution was the RWTS ( read / write track-sector ) routines for the Disk II, the 5 " floppy disk controller introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) show in early 1978.

The Consumer Confidence Barometer has now been running in the same format across Europe since the early 1970 ’ s.

After the lawsuit was filed, the Consumer Affairs Department reviewed five to six years of the cemetery's annual inspection records and found no indication that graves had been disturbed.

Over the years, many academic settings have adopted other names for the study of home economics, such as Human Sciences, Human Ecology, and Family and Consumer Sciences.

Consumer prices have risen marginally over the past few years.

Stable measuring unit assumption: financial capital maintenance in nominal monetary units or traditional Historical cost accounting only under the traditional Historical Cost paradigm ; i. e., accountants consider changes in the purchasing power of the functional currency up to but excluding 26 % per annum for three years in a row ( which would be 100 % cumulative inflation over three years or hyperinflation as defined in IAS 29 ) as immaterial or not sufficiently important for them to choose Capital Maintenance in units of constant purchasing power in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting at all levels of inflation and deflation as authorized in IFRS in the original Framework ( 1989 ), Par 104 ( a ) Conceptual Framework ( 2010 ), Par.

Some of the industries located here over the years included Hunter Arms, Hunter Bicycle, Hunter Fan, Sealright-Oswego Falls Corporation ( later, Phillips 66 Corporation and more recently, Huhtamaki Consumer Packaging ) making paper and plastic coated packaging, Dilts, ( later, Black-Clawson ),( a paper and plastic machine manufacturer.

At a July 13, 2004, Senate Banking Committee hearing on the effects of the GLBA five years after passage, the Legislative Director of the Consumer Federation cited Roger Ferguson ’ s 2003 speech and stated the “ extravagant promises ” of universal banking had “ proven to be mostly hype .” He noted that advocates of repealing Sections 20 and 32 had said “ anks, securities firms, and insurance companies would merge into financial services supermarkets ” and, after five years, some mergers had occurred “ but mostly within the banking industry, not across sectors .” Within the banking industry, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan testified to Congress in 2004 that commercial bank consolidation had “ slowed sharply in the past five years .”

Many systems were sold in the New Orleans area in the ensuing years before the first public demonstration of this integration occurred in 1982 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Illinois.

2001-2003-Voted the best ISP under the Consumer Satisfaction Survey for three consecutive years by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission ( MCMC ).

Mrs. Knauer ran the White House Office of Consumer Affairs in the Nixon Administration, where Sen. Dole served as a Deputy Assistant to the President. Dole, who had campaigned for the Kennedy-Johnson presidential ticket in 1960, worked in the White House in the later years of the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Consumer Consultative Panel, in December 2009 said that they were unable to function for almost a year because officials ignored requests for meetings and " we believe it is unacceptable that the board of the financial regulation section has failed to take responsibility for their stewardship of the organisation during the last six years. They did not understand many of the sectors and financial products it regulates.

Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1981 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1985 ; Award of Excellence, by the Triangle J Council of Governments, in 1985 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Research Triangle Group of the Sierra Club, in 1986 ; Service Award, by the Orange-Chatham Alliance for the Mentally Ill ; Triangle Conservation Award, by the Triangle Land Conservancy, in 1987 ; Consumer Advocate of the Year, by the North Carolina Consumers Council, in 1987 ; Honorary Citizenship of the City of Raleigh, by Mayor Avery Upchurch, in 1987, for efforts in the passage of the phosphate detergent limitation ; Resolution of Appreciation, by the Governor's Crime Commission, in 1987 ; Service Award, by the Joint Orange Chatham Community Action, Inc. Board of Directors, in 1988 ; Service Award, by the North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club, in 1988 ; Legislative Award, by the North Carolina Chapter, American Planning Association, in 1989 ; Legislative Award, by the N. C. Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the N. C. Pediatric Society, in 1989 ; Appreciation Award, by the Chatham County Advisory Council of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, in 1990 ; " Best Bets For 1990 ", by the Center For Policy Alternatives, Sustainable Growth Program, in 1990, " For Leadership in Reducing Environmental Hazards by Sponsoring Legislation to Establish Free Disposal Sites for Used Tires "; Service Award, by the Environmental Quality and Natural Resources Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference, in 1991, " In Appreciation For His Outstanding Leadership As Chairman .... 1989-1991 "; Recycling Merit Award, by the North Carolina Recycling Association in 1991 ; Appreciation Award, by the North Carolina Property Mappers Association, in 1993 ; Jake Alexander Public Service Award, by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Students Against Driving Drunk, and the Governor's Highway Safety Program, in 1993 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1996 ; Legislator of the Year, by North Carolina Citizen Action, for " your years of outstanding leadership and dedication to the fair protection of North Carolina families, workers and environment ", in 1996 ; Certificate of Commendation, by the North Carolina Psychiatric Association, for " persistence and legislative commitment to improving mental health in North Carolina ", in 1997 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1998 ; Friend of Education Award, by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Association of Educators, in 1999 ; Public Service Award, by the Child Care Services Association, for " outstanding advocacy and service on behalf of young children and their families ", in 2003.

Consumer Reports ran an article in April 2006 stating that hybrid vehicles would not pay for themselves over 5 years of ownership.

A 2009 survey, as well as surveys in other years by Consumer New Zealand, found that there was a high level of non-compliance with the code.

For several years, there were two annual Consumer Guide columns which strayed from this format: The Turkey Shoot ( typically published the week of Thanksgiving ), which consisted entirely of reviews graded B-or lower, and a Christmas-season roundup of compilations and reissues, mostly graded A or A +.

Two years before joining KTRK-TV, Zindler was assigned by the Sheriff and District Attorney to establish a Consumer Fraud Division with the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's statistics from the Fourth of July festivities in 2003 indicate that sparklers were involved in a majority ( 57 %) of fireworks injuries sustained by children under five years of age.

Form 990s for the Center for Consumer Freedom are available for years 2002-2010 on the GuideStar website.

The Auto Editors of Consumer Guide said, " In its dozen years on the market, Chevette had earned a reputation for being a simple, straightforward car offering high fuel economy and steadfast reliability.

* Godrej Consumer Products features in the Top 25 list of Great Places to Work ( survey conducted by GrowTalent in association with Business World ) for four years in a row.

PCRM — along with PETA and groups such as the Centers for Disease Control, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving — has been the subject of public criticism for several years by the Center for Consumer Freedom ( CCF ), a non-profit lobby group representing the food and beverage industry.

In comparison to the headline United States Consumer Price Index, which uses one set of expenditure weights for several years, this index uses a Fisher Price Index, which uses expenditure data from both the current period and the preceding period.