Sentence examples for in the consumer interest from inspiring English sources

In 1998, a similar merger proposal was vetoed by the then business secretary Peter Mandelson, who said a tie-up was not in the consumer interest.

He accursed the Federal bank ing authorities of failing to act "in the consumer interest". He said this was the first Federal Reserve decision on a consumer matter in which the new chair man, Arthur F. Burns, had par ticipated.

"Beauty products are more challenged in terms keeping the consumer interest," says Grant from NPD. "There's more competition.

Given the consumer interest in PDAs, one might wonder how users will merge their surfing and gadget habits.

She said: "In terms of a larger link we would need more evidence that the size of the link was in the consumers' interest.

It is in the consumers" interest that ownership should always be acknowledged and reproduction authorised.

He sold the consumer interests in the combined company, which makes the Toblerone brand, to Philip Morris in 1990 for 3.1 billion Swiss francs.

The network operators have said repeatedly that they want it to succeed, because it is their interest, and in the consumer's interest, to have a choice of three big operating systems.

It's in the consumer's interest that we do so.

"Having just a grab bag of junk that has not been investigated seems to not be in the consumer's interest".

A more appropriate defense, he says, would be that properly conducted peer review which eschews coercion, performs an advisory function, and leaves to others the decision whether to act on its advice actually enhances competition in the consumer's interest.