It is now the largest single-issue consumer group in the UK, and is a founding member of the European Beer Consumers ' Union ( EBCU ).

Looking back five years after the bill, the Consumers Union reported that wire to wire competition, the reason that sold the bill, had not succeeded as legislators had hoped.

* Letter from Consumers ' Union supporting Measure 27

* Consumers Union

Consumer Reports is an American magazine published monthly by Consumers Union since 1936.

* Consumers Union

Consumer Reports, known as Consumers Union from its founding until 2012, is a non-profit organization best known as the publisher of Consumer Reports, based in the United States.

In addition to its research and publishing activities, Consumers Union has four advocacy offices that attempt to influence policy that affects consumers, in Washington, D. C .; San Francisco, California ; Austin, Texas ; and Yonkers, New York.

Consumers Want to Know, a 1960 documentary on Consumers Union

Consumers Union was founded in 1936 by Arthur Kallet, Colston Warne, and others who felt that the established Consumers Research organization was not aggressive enough.

In part due to actions of Consumers Research, the House Un-American Activities Committee placed Consumers Union on a list of subversive organizations, only to remove it in 1954.

Consumers Union has helped start several consumer groups and publications, in 1960 helping create global consumer group Consumers International and in 1974 providing financial assistance to Consumers ' Checkbook which is considered akin to Consumer Reports for local services in the seven metropolitan areas they serve.

At the start of 2009, Consumers Union acquired The Consumerist blog from Gawker Media for approximately $ 600, 000.

The reason for the name change was that the name " Consumer Reports " was more familiar to the public than the name " Consumers Union ".

The name " Consumers Union " became reserved for the subsection of the organization which participates in political advocacy.

Consumers Union has hundreds of thousands of e-advocates who take action and write letters to policymakers about the issues its advocates take on.

Consumers Union is a sponsor of the Stop Hospital Infections campaign, whose goal is to aid consumers in finding the best quality of health care by promoting the public disclosure of hospital-acquired infection rates.

Before taking up journalism, Bonner worked as a staff attorney with Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Litigation Group, as the director of the West Coast office of Consumers Union, and as director of the consumer fraud / white collar crime unit of the San Francisco District Attorney's office.

including Nicole Nason, Administrator of the NHTSA, Jim Guest and David Champion of Consumers Union of the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), E-Safety Aware, Csaba Csere, editor of Car and Driver, and Jim Gill, long time ESC proponent of Continental Automotive Systems The European New Car Assessment Program ( EuroNCAP ) " strongly recommends " that people buy cars fitted with stability control.

Consumers are benefited by the single market in the sense that the competitive environment brings them cheaper products, more efficient providers of products and also increased choice of products.

Consumers also had no interest in purchasing sequels to the earlier 3DO games that disappointed them, and the pricing of 3DO software forced 3DO supporters to eventually flock to Sony's PlayStation for next-gen video gaming.

Consumers who were already willing to buy at the initial price benefit from a price reduction ; also they may buy more and receive even more consumer surplus, and additional consumers who were unwilling to buy at the initial price but will buy at the new price and also receive some consumer surplus.

This is also helped by the additions of the Brighton Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep Dealership, Superior Cadillac-GMC, Brighton Honda, Brighton Ford-Mercury, Consumers Suzuki and Champion Chevrolet Brighton-Howell.

Following her first term in Congress, Rankin accepted Florence Kelley ’ s invitation to be field secretary for the National Consumers League, while also spending the next years pushing for reform legislation to promote maternal and child health care.

) Consumers are also targeted by advertisements for peak transmission rates, while actual end-to-end rates observed in practice can be lower due to other factors.

Consumers also benefited: income poverty fell by about half ( to under 20 %) and new auto sales ( likewise depressed since 1982 ) jumped fivefold, to about 500, 000 units.

Consumer or Consumers may also refer to:

Consumers ' knowledge about a brand also governs how manufacturers and advertisers market the brand.

Consumers Energy also planned to tap the wind power resources along the eastern Lake Michigan shore with wind farms.

Ltd ( also known as the Consumers ' Association, still the official name of the charity ).

Consumers may also forward " unwanted or deceptive spam " to an email address (< tt > spam @ uce. gov </ tt >) maintained by the FTC.

The original lineup consisted of Dinah Cancer on vocals, Paul Cutler ( formerly of The Consumers ) on guitar, Rob Ritter ( also known as Rob Graves of The Bags ) on bass, and Don Bolles ( of The Germs ) on drums.

Due to the introduction of the MMP electoral system, a New Right " Association of Consumers and Taxpayers " party, known as ACT New Zealand was formed by ex-Labour New Right-aligned Cabinet Ministers like Richard Prebble and others, and maintaining existing New Right policy initiatives such as the Employment Contracts Act, while also introducing US-style " welfare reform.

He also served as counsel for the National Consumers League arguing for Progressive causes such as minimum wage and restricted work hours.

The area also contains the head office of the National House Building Council ( NHBC ) and a testing laboratory set up by the Consumers ' Association but now owned by Intertek, as well as lawyers, graphic design companies and warehousing.

He also was involved in the Consumers ' Gas Company being one of its founding directors.

In 1881 he increased his control over Consumers ' Gas also becoming president of that company.

Peterson was also Vice President for Consumer Affairs at Giant Food Corporation, and president of the National Consumers League.

Thwaites also acted to support local business: when he discovered there was a monopoly on the supply of gas in Southwark, Thwaites set up the Surrey Gas Consumers company in 1849, a mutual association of businesses, to get alternative and much cheaper supplies.

Consumers in Canada are also protected under a voluntary industry code which is overseen by the Canadian federal government.

A glimmer man ( also rendered as " glimmerman "; ) was a somewhat pejorative name unofficially, but almost universally, applied to inspectors who were employed by the Alliance and Dublin Consumers ' Gas Company, the Cork Gas Consumers Company and other supply companies in the smaller towns and places in Ireland to detect the use of gas in restricted periods during the years of the Emergency from March 1942 and in some places as late as 1947.