Six new facilities have joined Focus-Vision Network, Inc., Stamford, Conn., for video transmission of live focus groups. Now installed and operating are: Wolf/Altschul/ Callahan (WAC), New York City; The Field House, Overland Park, Kan.; Savitz Research Center, Dallas; TAl-Chicago and TAi-New Jersey; and Clearwater Research, Boise, Idaho. This brings the number of focus facilities in the FocusVision Network to 45 locations including the U.S., Toronto and London.
Chesapeake Surveys, Inc., Owings Mills, Md., a member of the VideoConferencing Alliance Network, has opened a new videoconferencing center which will link it with more than 300 cities worldwide. The company will hold a reception to preview the new center on March 12 from 5:30-8:00 p.m., during which guests will be able to participate in a live demonstration.
DataMind Corp. has moved to 2121 South E1 Camino Real, Ste. 1200, San Mateo, Calif.
Richard Kurtz & Associates has a new phone number, 212-869-9459, and e-mail address, kurtz @ ziplink.com.
Strategic Marketing Research and Planning has moved to 16120 Chesterfield Parkway, Ste. 160, Chesterfield, Mo.
Noble Consultants has changed its address to EO. Box 2709, Port Aransas, Texas.
Mediamark Research Inc., New York, has increased the annual sample of respondents to its national syndicated study to 30,000 from 20,000. The increase is in response to client demand for greater reliability of reporting and analysis of MRI data. On average the sample size increase will lower sampling error by 18 percent. The increase will be achieved by augmenting the present sample plan; no disproportionate increase or decrease among any geographic or demographic element of the MRI sample is contemplated. Full implementation of the increase will require four years of incremental replicates.
Colwell & Salmon Communications, an Albany, N.Y., research and telemarketing firm, has added a new CATI system.
Doris J. Cooper Associates, a fullservice data processing company, has moved to One North St., Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
MTA-EMCI, a Washington, D.C., strategic planning and consulting firm serving the telecommunications industry, has changed its name to The Strategis Group.
Decision Analyst, Inc., Arlington, Texas, has opened a Web site at www.decisionanalyst.com. The site includes published articles on marketing topics, free research data for businesses, and free software that performs basic research-related statistical functions.
Aragon Consulting Group, St. Louis, has opened an office in Denver to serve companies in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. Gregory Wills will manage the office.