Catherine Bryant & Associates Market Research, Winston-Salem, N.C., celebrated its tenth anniversary by moving to a new custom designed facility in the Hanes Mall area. It includes a new focus group suite, a central location test center, a textile lab, a telephone interviewing center, a data processing center and office space.
Quality Controlled Services has expanded its Overland Park, Kan., facility to include three focus group suites, a multi-purpose room, a central phone room with 48 CRT stations, a test kitchen and 12 pre-recruit stations.
SDR, Inc., Atlanta, a data processing and statistical analysis firm, has expanded its range of services to include survey research project consulting, design and planning; sample consulting, planning and sample generation; data collection and preparation; marketing database design, development and management; advanced statistical analysis; statistical modeling; and consulting in data interpretation. In other news, the firm has spun off its Chicago tabulation operation into a separate company. With SDR's support, Jim Miller, formerly SDR' s director of marketing and a member of its board of directors, has formed Miller Research Group (MRG), purchasing SDR's Chicago Tabulation Services Group and its assets. SDR's Chicago office and MRG will continue to be co-located at 10 South Riverside in Chicago.
Focus Market Research, Bloomington, Minn., has opened a videoconferencing center at its Edina, Minn., location. The center offers AT&T and PictureTel equipment for transmission to the offices of Focus clients or 23 other markets that are linked through membership in the VideoConferencing Alliance Network. The facility will also offer public room videoconferencing.
Marketing Evaluations, Inc. has moved to 1615 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, N.Y.
ESRI has opened an office in Europe in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
MapInfo Corp., a Troy, N.Y., maker of desktop mapping equipment, has opened offices in Japan, China, Hong Kong and Australia to serve the growing Asia Pacific markets.
The Merchandising Group, Inc. (TMG) has moved to new offices at 79 Fifth Ave., 17th fl., New York, N.Y.
Reyes Research has opened a new mall location at The Esplanade Mall in Oxnard, Calif. The mall features more than 80 stores, including Sears, Robinsons-May and American Family Theatres.
JRA (J. Reckner Associates) Marketing Research, Montgomeryville, Pa., has opened a new focus group center at 1600 Market St., Philadelphia.
A new research company, Database Marketing Company (DBM), has opened in Moscow to compile a database of information on Russian consumers.