WASHINGTON – The Competitiveness Coalition today announced the American Consumer Institute (ACI) as our 24th and newest member. The addition of ACI, whose mission is to promote consumer welfare by improving the understanding and impact that public policies and regulations have on consumers in a free market, will provide an important voice and resource for the coalition as it continues to focus on the importance of competitiveness and innovation, and fight back against all efforts to impede either.

“We are excited to welcome the American Consumer Institute to the Competitiveness Coalition,” said Competitiveness Coalition Chair Scott Brown, a former U.S. Senator and Ambassador. “ACI’s tireless efforts advocating for all consumers dovetails perfectly with the Coalition’s work in fighting for the continuation of the consumer welfare standard in antitrust enforcement. I am excited to work together with ACI and to ensure American competitiveness continues, and that consumers are protected from overzealous, ideologically driven regulations.”

“The American Consumer Institute is excited to join the Competitiveness Coalition and work together to advocate for consumer welfare through fostering innovation,” said Logan Kolas, Director of Technology Policy for the American Consumer Institute. “We look forward to working toward a market environment where consumers can prosper free from the constraints that slow economic progress and stifle innovation.”

For nearly three years, the Competitiveness Coalition has been sounding the alarm on the FTC’s egregious overreach and concerning actions. For more information on the Coalition’s work on this front, please visit competitivenesscoalition.com. Members of the press can contact the coalition at press@competitivenesscoalition.com.

The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational and research institute founded on the belief that consumers’ interests are not satisfactorily represented by the wide variety of advocacy and consumer organizations that often represent small subsets of consumers and special interests; ignore distant, collateral and unintended consequences of importance to consumers; and too often mirror advocates’ political views rather than an empirical analysis of consumers’ economic welfare.

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The Competitiveness Coalition is a first-of-its-kind group educating the public and advocating for policies that put consumers first while fostering innovation and attracting new investment.