Sources: FTC: wholesale T-shirt distributor pricing protections; FTC and USDA: agricultural equipment market inquiry; FTC: Cleo AI consumer refund announcement

Wholesale pricing investigation: disclosed outcome

Explanatory sequence; not a quantitative series

01Contract examined
02Terms amended
03Discretion preserved
04Investigation closed
FTC October 8 account of Gildan / S&S. No court judgment or monetary penalty is asserted. [1]

Sources: [1] FTC: wholesale T-shirt distributor pricing protections · October 8, 2026

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