Nielsen Marketing Research has appointed Edward F. Ryan to vice president, client service manager of the Hackensack office. Ryan joined Nielsen after 17 years of management and sales experience with Vicks Health Care.
Steve Wolf has joined Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing as president of Harte-Hanks Telemarketing Services, River Edge, NJ. Wolf has over 10 years experience in the telemarketing and market research business with Elrick & Lavidge, Certified Marketing Services and Lieber/Rebell Associates and most recently Wolf/Altschul/Callahan.
Joining Conway/Milliken & Associates, Chicago, is Susan Treiber, vice president, services group, and, Caroline J. Gatten, group manager, qualitative research.
HTI Custom Research, a division of The NPD Group, has promoted Karyn B. Schoenbart to vice president, New York marketing.
Joining Cohn & Wolfe, public relations, Atlanta, as research director is Cynthia W. Davis.
David J. Vander Schaaf, previously director of marketing, has been named vice president at SRI Gallup Hospital Market Research, Lincoln, NE.
Lisa Schwartz has been promoted at Rockwood Research Corp., St. Paul, MN, to project director. Previously she was a market research analyst.
Joining the Sinrod Marketing Group, New York City is Guy Parker, principal and president of the consumer research division. He has previously held positions at Colgate-Palmolive, Cunard Line, Lever Brothers, Bristol-Myers, Foote Cone & Belding and Cunningham & Walsh.
Joining BBDO, Inc., Chicago, is George W. Hunt, as senior research analyst. He was previously at Loyola University, Chicago.
Lynn Buzzard joins Walker Research, Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C., as senior account executive in its research and analysis division. Previously, she was consumer research manager at L'Eggs Products, Inc., Winston-Salem. Ellen Ryder has joined Walker as a project director. She most recently was customer ser-vice representative with the Triad Bank, Winston-Salem.
Trish Benskin joins The Market Research Institute, Inc., Merriam, KS, as vice president and general manager. She was previously with Moskowitz/Jacobs, Inc., New York.
IMI Research Corp., Minneapolis, has appointed Lena Elias-Bluett to project director. Elias-Bluett previously held an account position at C/J Research, Chicago.
Data Group, Inc., an Information Resources, Inc., company, has moved to larger facilities at Meetinghouse Business Center, 2260 Butler Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462. At its new facilities, Data Group has an expanded 125 phone station capability as well as a new state-of-the-art focus group facility.
The corporate headquarters of Irwin Research Services, Inc., announces a change of address to 565 S. Mail St., Jacksonville, FL.
Market Research Institute, Inc., has opened at 7315 Frontage Rd., Meriam, KS. Bob Higney has been named president.
The headquarters of Harrington Market Research have moved to 511 Monroe St., Kalamazoo, MI 49007.
Tracy Verga of Metro Market Research Center, announces the opening of the company's new focus group facility at 855 Valley Rd., Clifton, NJ 07013.
The Wright Group, marketing research executive search and placement has moved to 6846 Spring Valley Rd., Suite A, Dallas, TX 75240.
SmartNames, Inc., market research and information, has opened up a new satellite office at 2 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121.
Quality Controlled Services, St. Louis, has acquired two mall interviewing locations. They are: Burlington Mall, Burlington, NJ, and Maplewood Mall, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. Both are permanent facilities equipped to handle all mall intercept interviewing requirements. A focus group suite and test kitchen are included at each site. The Burlington facility will be operated as part of the QCS Philadelphia branch office under the direction of Mitzi Keller. The Maplewood facility will operate as part of the QCS Minneapolis office under Kay Sanders' direction.