The deal left Primedia to focus on a series of free print and online consumer guides published by its Consumer Source unit.

* 1994-Acquired Haas Publishing, now Consumer Source Inc.

Some retailers that offer service plans include Sears ( Master / Repair Protection Agreement / Merchandise Replacement Agreement ), OfficeMax ( MaxAssurance Warranty Plan ), Best Buy ( Geek Squad Protection ), CompUSA ( Technology Assurance Program ), hhgregg, Office Depot ( Performance Protection Plan ), Radio Shack ( Replacement Plan / Repair Plan ), Staples ( Technical Support and Protection Plan / Product Replacement Plan ), Ritz Camera Centers ( Extended Service Plan ), Target ( Extended Service Plan ), Consumer Priority Service ( Extended Service Plan ) and Brand Source ( Expert Protection ).

In July 1984, Tramel Technology bought the Consumer Division of Atari Inc. from Warner Communications.

When, in 1984, Warner Communications sold the Atari Consumer division of Atari Inc. ( which included the video game divisions ) to Jack Tramiel ( who named his company Atari Corporation ), Warner initially retained the arcade coin-op division ( Atari Coin ), renaming it " Atari Games ".

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.

In a West Virginia class action suit filed on July 16, 2003, Mey v. Herbalife International, Inc., et al., the plaintiffs allege that some " telemarketing practices of certain Herbalife International distributors violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, and seeks to hold Herbalife International vicariously liable for the practices of these distributors.

* June 28, 2011-Tylenol Extra Strength Caplets 225 count distributed in the U. S. by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., recalled at the retail level one product lot ( 60, 912 bottles ) of Tylenol, Extra Strength Caplets, 225 count bottles, distributed in the U. S. The recalled product was manufactured in February, 2009.

Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. is a major video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products & Services Group of Sony.

* Warner Communications Inc. sells the Consumer Division of Atari, Inc. and creates an entirely new company ( Atari Games Corp ) out of the retained arcade division.

Consumer Assistance Office Metro West, Inc.

* Lifetime Achievement Award, Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition, Inc., 2006

Now known as Royal Consumer Information Products Inc., Royal ’ s product line has evolved to include cash registers, shredders, PDAs / electronic organizers, postal scales, weather stations, and a wide range of original and compatible / remanufactured imaging supplies supporting today ’ s most popular printers, faxes, and copiers.

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.

In cooperation with the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ( CPSC ), Sportsstuff Inc. voluntarily withdrew the Wego Kite Tube from the market on, 2006.

Shared Health, Inc. AHIC Consumer Empowerment Workgroup Meeting 7 / 23 / 06.

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.

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The Dial Corporation, a subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA ( Henkel Consumer Goods Inc ), is a manufacturer of personal-care and household-cleaning products based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

On December 15, 2008, The Dial / Henkel Consumer Goods Inc moved into its new company headquarters at North Scottsdale Road and Loop 101 just a few miles north of its old location.

Consumer communities have suffered at the hands of the productive interests.

-- `` Consumer uncertain about economic conditions ''.

-- Consumer spending edged down in April after rising for two consecutive months, the Government reported.

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.

One month later, Warner Communications sold Atari's Consumer Division to Jack Tramiel.

Due to the acquisition of the Atari Consumer Division by Jack Tramiel in 1984, a number of planned peripherals for the system were canceled.

Epyx first showed the Handy system at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) in January 1989.

" Stalking the Amphisbaena ", Journal of Consumer Research, 23 ( 3 ), Dec. 1996, pp. 163 – 176.

In a glowing review for his " Consumer Guide " column published by The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote: " Before minstrelsy scholar Eric Lott gets too excited about having his title stolen.

Consumer spending and foreign investment dropped dramatically and depressed growth in 2010 to 0. 3 %.

Consumer and small business websites such as Tradepal, This4that. biz, BarterQuest. com and BarterForce. com promote bartering as a green alternative to buying and selling.

: Consumer estates were the vast majority, with 122 999 estates.

In addition, because biomedical engineers often develop devices and technologies for " consumer " use, such as physical therapy devices ( which are also " medical " devices ), these may also be governed in some respects by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Consumer and some commercial printers are designed for low-volume, short-turnaround print jobs ; requiring virtually no setup time to achieve a hard copy of a given document.

While there are self-contained departments for the creation of arcade, pachinko and pachislo, online, and mobile games, the Consumer Games R & D Division instead is an amalgamation of subsections in charge of various game development stages.

* Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council ( EPSCO ): Composed of employment, social protection, consumer protection, health and equal opportunities ministers.

Together with the Austrian Ministry for Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection, the Justice Ministry opened the discussion with a conference held in Vienna in June, 2005.

Consumer associations can file claims on behalf of groups of consumers to obtain judicial orders against corporations that cause injury or damage to consumers.

After several on-again / off-again talks with Atari in May and June 1984, Tramiel had secured his funding and bought Atari's Consumer Division ( which included the console and home computer departments ) in July.

An Administrator is required in the Consumer Proposal, and a Trustee in the Division I Proposal ( these are virtually the same although the terms are not interchangeable ).

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.

In Australia, Trade is covered under Australian Treasury Guidelines for electronic commerce, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regulates and offers advice on how to deal with businesses online, and offers specific advice on what happens if things go wrong.

FAO is composed of eight departments: Administration and Finance, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Economic and Social Development, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Forestry, Knowledge and Communication, Natural Resource Management and Technical Cooperation.

The Irish health system, being administered centrally by the Health Service Executive, is seen to be poor by comparison to other countries in Europe, ranking outside expected levels at 25th according to the Euro Health Consumer Index 2006.

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.

The Infocom trademark is currently held by Pete Hottelet's Omni Consumer Products, who registered the name around the same time as Klaeffling in 2007.

Consumer perception of foods treated with irradiation is more negative than those processed by other means.

Consumer advocacy groups such as Public Citizen or Food and Water Watch maintain that the safety of irradiated food is not proven, in particular long-term studies are still lacking, and strongly oppose the use of the technology.

Consumer surplus is the difference between the value of a good to a consumer and the price the consumer must pay in the market to purchase it.

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

Philips is organized into three main divisions: Philips Consumer Lifestyle ( formerly Philips Consumer Electronics and Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care ), Philips Healthcare ( formerly Philips Medical Systems ) and Philips Lighting.

Consumer confidence is one measure used to evaluate economic sentiment.

After exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1999, Mike Ramsay announced to the company that the first version of the TiVo digital video recorder would ship " In Q1 ," ( the last day of which is 31 March ) despite an estimated four to five months of work remaining to complete the device.

* January – The world's first personal all-in-one computer ( keyboard / screen / tape storage ), the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago

A chief measure of price inflation is the inflation rate, the annualized percentage change in a general price index ( normally the Consumer Price Index ) over time.

Consumer surplus or consumers ' surplus is the monetary gain obtained by consumers because they are able to purchase a product for a price that is less than the highest price that they would be willing to pay.

Consumer surplus is thus the definite integral of the demand function with respect to price, minus the definite integral of the constant function D ( P )= Q < sub > mkt </ sub > ( i. e. P < sub > mkt </ sub > Q < sub > mkt </ sub >), from the market price to the maximum reservation price ( i. e. the price-intercept of the demand function ):

Family and Consumer Sciences Education is viewed as the focus of individuals and families living in society throughout the life span.

The AAFCS ( American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences ) represents teachers, educators, cooperatives, business, designers and nutritionists. The American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences ( AAFCS ) is the only national forum where K-12 teachers, university educators, and corporate executives collaborate to improve the quality of individual and family life.

Consumer surplus is the area between the price line and the demand curve.