retail price maintenance
noun[U]
COMMERCEukus(abbreviationRPM)→resale price maintenance:
TheOfficeof Fair Tradingdecidedagainstretailpricemaintenanceonover-the-counterbrandedmedicines.
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retail price maintenance
Price fixing is permitted in some markets but not others; where allowed, it is often known as "resale price maintenance" or "retailpricemaintenance".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Retailpricemaintenancewould continue to be legal for some goods; these included books, on which it remained in force until market forces led to its abandonment in 1995.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sale of over the counter medicines is governed byretailpricemaintenanceand is a matter for the suppliers.
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He took the case ofretailpricemaintenance.
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Our object is to prohibit the collective enforcement ofretailpricemaintenance.
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There are trades in which free pricing exists side by side withretailpricemaintenance.
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Most people accept thatretailpricemaintenanceis going.
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The elimination ofretailpricemaintenancein all but exceptional cases will also help to reduce retail prices.
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It is very important, since the breakdown ofretailpricemaintenance, that the grading of carpets should be well and truly understood by the public.
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Comparisons before and afterretailpricemaintenanceare very difficult to establish when the secular movement of prices is upward.
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