What does MAP stand for?

Minimum Advertised Price

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The order prohibits NAMM from aiding musical instrument manufacturers or retailers in forming anticompetitive agreements, such as agreements among competitors relating to price, minimum advertised price, and terms of dealing.

FTC Charges Trade Association With Facilitating Collusion Through ...

Industry suppliers originally crafted Minimum Advertised Price polices as a way to halt ruinous price wars and give retailers sufficient financial incentive to adequately inventory, service, and promote their products.

Are MAP policies killing retail profits? A widespread lack of ...

To activate the Sustainable Market Initiative in the arts supply retail channel, Golden Artists Colors will institute several key measures, including a minimum advertised price policy, which will assure that the advertising of the brand does not represent Golden products as a loss leader or lower-value product.

Golden Artist Colors paints a new picture of sustainability

PENTAX Imaging Company has announced a reduction in the minimum advertised price (MAP) of the award winning PENTAX K20 digital SLR.

PENTAX Lowers Price on Feature-Rich, 14.6 Megapixel K20D

Second, sellers should note that Herman Miller's SRP policy only prohibited advertising below a certain price and did not actually prohibit resellers from selling below the minimum advertised price set by Herman Miller.

Resale Price Maintenance Programs Still At Risk

THE FEDERAL TRADE Commission served the music industry's major suppliers with a 17-page subpoena on March 12, as part of a vaguely defined investigation to assess if minimum advertised price programs represent an unfair method of competition.

FTC investigates entire industry to determine if MAP policies are ...

The record companies introduced the minimum advertised prices in the early 1990s to end a CD price war initiated by discount stores like Best Buy, Circuit City and Target, the FTC said.

Giant music distributors settle CD overpricing case

Our pricing system allows dealers a full 36 percent markup over minimum advertised price (MAP).

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