Custom Research, Inc., Minneapolis, announces the promotion of Darrell Foss to vice president and Jeanne Kalien to senior vice president.
Phil Balducci & Associates, Tampa, FL, announces the completion of an expansion which more than doubles its office space to include a focus group facility, a full-equipped test kitchen and additional WATS lines for intrastate and interstate telephone interviewing.
Harvey Rosen has joined Research & Forecasts, New York, as senior vice president. Most recently, he was vice president of Simmons Market Research Bureau's custom studies/financial research services division.
Debra A. Keeney has been named director of McGraw-Hill Research's telephone interviewing center. Prior to rejoining McGraw-Hill, New York, Keeney was president of DAK Research.
Motoresearch has moved to a new location. The address is: 1035 So. Adams, Birmingham, MI 48011.
Saul Cohen announces the formation of his company, Saul Cohen & Associates, Ltd., Stamford, CT, specializing in qualitative marketing research. Formerly vice president and founder of the qualitative division of Leferman Associates, Cohen's expertise is in interpersonal and group dynamics and interaction. The company offers a full-range of customized methodologies.
Priscilla Kinter has been appointed project director of Parkwood Research Associates. Allentown, PA. She will be responsible for managing research projects, field work and the company's focus group facility. Prior to joining PRA, Kinter was a research supervisor at Grey Advertising and an advertising/research manager at GNB, Inc.
Warren Dobbs has been promoted to senior vice president at Simmons Market Research Bureau, Inc., New York. For the past three years, Dobbs has had a variety of sales responsibilities at Simmons including management of the midwest Simmons office and southern territory. Steve Fajen has joined Simmons' syndicated studies as executive vice president to head the newly created media sales and service unit. He was previously a partner and director of client services at Vitt Media.
Med Focus, St. Paul, MN, has changed its name to In Focus Marketing Research and Consulting. The company provides research design, field supervision, focus group moderating and in-depth interviewing for clients in the medical, financial, insurance, services and consumer products industries.
ConsumerViews, a division of Bur-goyne, Inc., Cincinnati, announces the appointment of Warren W. Pino as account executive in its West Coast client services offices in San Francisco. Pino previously worked for Winona Research, IBM. and Columbia Information Systems.
Roy G. Stout has been elected to the newly created postion of vice president, corporate marketing research at the Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta. Stout was previously senior vice president, marketing research, for the company's Coca-Cola, USA unit. In his new post, he is responsible for the company's world-wide marketing research.
Caryl-Lynn Kahn has joined Elrick & Lavidge's New York area office as qualitative research account manager. Previously, she was a research analyst at Ayerst Laboratories in New York. She also served as adjunct professor of marketing at the New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury.
David Nero, Elrick & Lavidge, Chicago, has been named vice president. He will continue as head of the health care services research group in the Chicago office. Prior to joining E&L in 1980, he was with American Hospital Supply with responsibilities in market research and business development.
Laurie (Josey) Butler, Elrick & Lavidge, Atlanta, has been appointed vice president. She will continue as head of the qualitative research group in Atlanta and will also assume additional business development responsi-bilites. She joined E&L in 1981 as project manager.
Joseph Ferrara has been promoted from research analyst to the newly created position of research supervisor within the marketing communications department of The Record, New Jersey's largest evening newspaper. In his new position, Ferrara will be responsible for market research for the advertising, circulation, and editorial departments as well as corporate research.
Cook Research & Consulting has moved from the third floor to new facilities on the second floor of the Southdale Office Centre at 6600 France Ave. So., Minneapolis. The company offers a telephone interviewing center, a focus group facility, a viewing room that accommodates up to 15 clients, and a viewable test kitchen for both consumer and institutional food testing.
Opinion Research Corp., Princeton, NJ, annouces two promotions: Steven I. Marks to research executive and George M. Philip to research director. Marks joined ORC in 1985 as a research associate in the company's cable video research center in New York City. In his new position, he will market and coordinate ORC's shared-cost General Public Caravan Survey. Prior to joining ORC as a research assistant in 1985, Philip was a graduate assistant at Texas A&M University. In his new position, Philip will be responsible for the direction of a wide-range of custom-designed market research projects.
Kimberly Hess has joined Custom Research, Inc., Minneapolis, as a research manager at CRTs East coast office in Union, NJ. Formerly she was with market management at Southern New England Telecommunications Corp. Hess has previously been senior account executive at Survey Sampling, Inc.
Joining Precision Field Services, Niles, IL, is Carol Mitchell as field director. She will be responsible for executive/medical interviews, inside and outside projects, special events, and store audits.