A new focus group facility has opened in San Francisco: ConStat, Inc., 450 Sansome St., Ste. 1100, San Francisco, CA, 94111. For more information con tact Brian Kirby, vice president, marketing.

VF Information Service, Langhorne, PA, has opened a new WATS interview­ing facility at 8101 Castor Ave., Philadel­phia, PA, 19152.

Gail Rapoport has opened a qualitative marketing research and consulting firm called RapSessions, located at 2000 Lin­coln Park West, Ste. 504, Chicago, IL, 60614. The firm will specialize in focus group mod­erating and marketing strategy develop­ment based on qualitative research.

St. Paul-based Rockwood Research has opened a branch office in River Falls, WI, at 208 S. Main. The office will ini­tially employ 30 part-time research inter­viewers, who will conduct agriculture-related telephone research studies. "We chose River Falls for our first branch office because we were impressed with the quality of potential employees, by the fact that people in the area understand agriculture and by the warm welcome we received from the community," says Ken Becker, vice president of Rockwood.