Research Mentors, a Chicago research and consulting firm, has opened a Web site.
Leadership Research is now open at 4525 E. Heatherbrae Dr., Phoenix, Ariz. Susan Andreas is principal, research director.
A new research firm, Focus On Miami, has opened at 9703 South Dixie Highway, Ste. 6, Miami, Fla. The film will conduct focus groups, one-on-ones, jury simulations, mystery shopping and in-store assignments.
Direct Resource has moved to 8 S.Michigan Ave., Ste. 1111, Chicago, Ill.
Fiddwork Plus, a new field service for the Milwaukee area, has opened at 1823 WestShore Dr.,Delafield, Wis. The firm specializes in in-store audits, mystery shops, exit interviews and tracking studies.
Irwin Research Services, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., has formed two new divisions: The Irwin Group, Inc., and Irwin Research Associates, Inc. Kathryn Blackbum has been appointed president of The Irwin Group. Denise Henry has been appointed president of Irwin Research Associates.
Focused Solutions, a Salt Lake City research and consulting firm, has folmed an alliance with Decision Diagnostics, a Chicago quantitative research firm.
Smart (Strategic Marketing and Research Techniques) has relocated to 2700 Ygnacio Valley Rd., Walnut Creek, Calif.
RRC Associates, a Boulder, Colo., research film, has opened the Boulder Focus Center, a full-service focus group facility featuring a discussion room that holds as many as 12 participants and the moderator and a viewing room that accommodates up to nine clients.
John J. Clark & Associates, a Pittsburgh research firm, has opened a Web page to provide information on the company’s research services designed to help clients increase customer and employee satisfaction and product or service market awareness.
The M/A/R/C Group, Dallas, has formed an alliance with Peapod Interactive, Evanston, Ill., to develop and market both custom and syndicated research products and services. The M/A/R/C Group provides research and database marketing services to major markets. Peapod Interactive is a division of Peapod, LP, a provider of on-line supermatket shopping and delivery services. With more than 15,000 subscribers currently in the Chicago and San Francisco areas, Peapod plans significant expansion to additional metropolitan areas over the next several years. Peapod Interactive provides on-line advertising and promotion services and now, through M/A/R/C, on-line research and testing services to consumer goods manufacturers.
Polaris Markefing Research has moved to new facilities to accommodate added personnel and a larger telephone interviewing center. The new address is 359 East Paces Ferry Rd., N~., Atlanta, Ga.
After 10 years in Englewood, The Focus Room - NJ. has moved to Hackensack, N.J. Located at 433 Hackensack Ave., 10 minutes from Manhattan’s George Washington Bridge and situated across from a mall, the new facih’ty is 7,200 sq. ft.