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Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports ( CR ), formerly Consumers Union ( CU ), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy. [2] Founded in 1936, CR was created to serve as a source of information that consumers ...
Arthur Kallet (December 15, 1902 – February 24, 1972) was an American consumer advocate. Career. An engineer, Kallet co-authored a 1933 book entitled 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs and Cosmetics with fellow engineer Frederick Schlink.
U.S. Const. amend. Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc., 466 U.S. 485 (1984), was a product disparagement case ultimately decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court held, on a 6–3 vote, in favor of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, ruling that proof of "actual malice" was necessary ...
Consumers' Checkbook /Center for the Study of Services (doing business as Consumers’ CHECKBOOK) is an independent, nonprofit consumer organization. It was founded in 1974 [1] in order to provide survey information to consumers about vendors and service providers. There are both print and online publications in the Boston, Chicago, Delaware ...
Colston Warne. Colston Estey Warne (August 14, 1900 – May 20, 1987) was an American professor of economics and one of the founders of Consumers Union (along with Arthur Kallet ), in 1936. He served as president of the board of directors from 1936 to 1979. He also served as President of the International Organization of Consumers Unions (IOCU ...
The Consumer Federation of America ( CFA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 to advance consumer interests through research, education and advocacy. According to CFA's website, its members are nearly 300 consumer-oriented non-profits, each with a combined membership of 50 million people. CFA members include national organizations such ...
James A. Guest. James Alfred (Jim) Guest (born December 25, 1940) is an American lawyer, consumer advocate, and politician.From 2001 to 2014, Guest was the president and chief executive officer of Consumer Reports, a position he was appointed to after serving as Chairman of the Board of the Consumers Union from 1976 to 1994, with 21 of those 22 years as chair.
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