* State of the World 2004 Special Focus: The Consumer Society ISBN 0-393-32539-3

Ford debuted the all-electric Ford Focus Electric at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2011 to compete with the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt.

Switch: a free-to-use comparison service to help consumers compare energy tariffs and switch to a different supplier, accredited by Consumer Focus, the industry watchdog.

The London TravelWatch Board have set up the Watford Station Closure Panel whose members are David Liebling, the vice chair of TravelWatch and the representative for London on the Board of Passenger Focus ; Gail Engert, chair of the Transport Services Committee of TravelWatch ; and David Barry, chair of the Consumer Affairs Committee of TravelWatch.

The Royal Mail is regulated by Ofcom, while consumer interests are represented by Consumer Focus.

In 2009, Chairman Charles R. Schwab received the inaugural Tiburon CEO Summit award for Maintaining a Focus on Consumer Needs.

Lord Whitty was appointed as the first Chairman of Consumer Focus in July 2007.

Consumer Focus is the statutory organisation campaigning for a fair deal for consumers in England, Wales, Scotland, and, for postal services, Northern Ireland.

Clients have included: Amnesty International, CafeDirect, Christian Aid, Comic Relief, The Co-operative Bank, British Red Cross, Consumer Focus, Ecology Building Society, International Consumer Research and Testing, Friends of the Earth, Glasgow Caledonian University, Lush cosmetics Médecins Sans Frontière Belgium, Natural History Museum, Oxfam, The Guardian, the Soil Association, Vegetarian Society, Water Aid, Women's Institute, WWF.

A prototype of the full computer was shown to the public for the first time at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1984.

The 7800 was initially released in southern California in June 1984, following an announcement on May 21, 1984 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show.

Internationally there is the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network ( ICPEN ), which was formed in 1991 from an informal network of government customer fair trade organisations.

On July 21, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 (" NRRA "), which took effect on July 21, 2011 and was part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

The report was disputed by representatives of the Consumer Federation of America, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the National Consumer Law Center, and the Center for Economic Justice, for relying on data provided by the insurance industry.

A new advertising campaign was aired in time for the 1982 Christmas season, and the ECS itself was shown to the public at the January 1983 Consumer Electronic Show ( CES ) in Las Vegas.

Kazaa was introduced by the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment in March 2001, near the end of the first generation of P2P networks typified by the shutdown of Napster in July 2001.

Consumer Empowerment was sued in the Netherlands in 2001 by the Dutch music publishing body, Buma / Stemra.

In October 2001 a lawsuit was filed against Consumer Empowerment by members of the music and motion picture industry in the USA.

According to Consumer Reports, the most common large size configuration for the 2011 model year was 7 passenger seating.

The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton.

Paint manufacturers began replacing white lead pigments with the less toxic substitute, titanium white ( titanium dioxide ), before lead was banned in paint for residential use in 1978 by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

There were plans to release the G7400 in the United States as the Odyssey³ and later as the Odyssey³ Command Center ; the system was demonstrated at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show and some prototypes have been found.

This now-discontinued ISR practice was informally labeled a scam and a fraud, and the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs issued a violation against ISR for engaging in a deceptive trade practice.

Paula Block, then of CBS Consumer Products, was responsible for approving proposals and all completed manuscripts for the licensed media tie-ins, and granted many such uses of TAS material since Roddenberry's passing.

Consumer patterns were also shifting at this time, as purchasing power was becoming stronger and more accessible to a wider range of families.

In Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council,, the Court overruled Valentine and ruled that commercial speech was entitled to First Amendment protection:

" At the same time, the investment community was worried about proposed legal reforms, including the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which dealt with matters such as credit card rates and lending requirements.

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.

Hyundai Santa Fe was awarded the Top Pick by Consumer Reports in 2008.

The Hyundai Elantra was Consumer Reports ' top-ranked 2008 vehicle among 19 other compacts and small family cars, beating out the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prius.

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.

After selling it to Niklas Zennström from Sweden and Janus Friis from Denmark, it was introduced in March 2001 by their Dutch company Consumer Empowerment.

Also part of PSEB is the Autodesk Consumer Product Group, which was created in November 2010 to generate interest in 3-D design and “ foster a new wave of designers who hunger for sophisticated software .” The products from the group include 123D, Fluid FX, Homestyler, Pixlr, and SketchBook.

In the United States, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the American National Standards Institute have created a Standardized Document and Training System for certification of Playground Safety Inspectors.

* created the New Jersey Index of Consumer Performance and Index of Consumer Intentions.

The Department of Prices and Consumer Protection was a short-lived United Kingdom government department created by the incoming Labour government in 1974 when the functions of the Department of Trade and Industry were divided between three new departments ( the Department of Trade, the Department of Industry and the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection ).

Gutiérrez was also a principal backer of the Dodd-Frank bill that created the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Senate Bill 129 created the Office of Privacy Protection within the Department of Consumer Affairs to inform the public of potential options for protecting their privacy, receive complaints concerning persons unlawfully using others ' personal information, and to help prosecute identity theft and other privacy related crimes.

The NCPA was a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, an organization created by the now-defunct non-profit group Consumer Alert that described itself as " an alliance of some two dozen non-profit public policy groups concerned about the implications of the Kyoto Protocol for consumers ," and which was generally skeptical of the anthropogenic theory of global warming.

The Center for Consumer Freedom ( CCF ) is one of the more active corporate front groups and one of several front groups created by Berman & Co., a public affairs firm owned by lobbyist Rick Berman.

In addition Ribicoff was allied with Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader in creating the Motor Vehicle Highway Safety Act of 1966 which created the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ).

Later, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission ( CPSC ) created its own mandatory standard for all bicycle helmets sold in the United States, which took effect in March 1999.

It was created in 1972 through the Consumer Product Safety Act to protect " against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer products.

On May 11, 2011, he was named Assistant Director for Research of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created pursuant to Title X of the Dodd – Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

* 1990 – A new organisation – International Consumer Research & Testing was created to formalise the arrangements of the ETG.

The company has created a number of non-profits, including the Center for Consumer Freedom and the Center for Union Facts.

Wayne Fromm is owner of Fromm Toys Inc. and Eric Segal is owner of All 4 Fun Consumer Products Ltd. All 4 Fun Toy Products Ltd. also created a series of Crazy Bones for the Toronto Blue Jays, a cereal promotion with Cap ' n Crunch and another with Wrigley.

He initiated, and in some cases directly created, dozens of new institutions including: Open University, Which ?, International Alert, University of the Third Age, Economic and Social Research Council, National Extension College, National Consumer Council, Open College of the Arts and School for Social Entrepreneurs.

American Bell Consumer Products was created on January 1, 1983 as a unit of American Bell, Inc., upon declaration by the Modification of Final Judgment that American Telephone & Telegraph ( AT & T ) had to sell equipment to the public through an entirely separate subsidiary.

Minister for Family and Consumer Affairs of Denmark () was a political office in the Danish government created in August 2004 and worked primarily for families and with consumption-related topics.