L&E Buys Kansas City and California Venues

Raleigh, NC-based focus group facilities and recruiting services company L&E Research has acquired discussion venues from Q & A Research Inc., in Kansas City, Missouri and Walnut Creek (East Bay), California.

L&E, whose offer also includes online qual technologies, has existing office locations in seven other markets: Cincinnati and Columbus, OH; Charlotte, NC; Minneapolis, MN; Raleigh, NC; St. Louis, MO; and Tampa, FL.

Q & A Research's full service quant and qual offering is not affected by the deal, and its President Warren Pino comments: 'I am happy to have sold the focus suites division to L&E after the positive partnership I have had in working on projects with L&E'.

Brett Watkins, President of L&E Research, comments: 'These 2 new focus suites will give coast to coast access to consumers and medical professionals. That coupled with our existing locations, give clients a wide variety of growing markets that are less researched for truly fresh, outstanding research'. He adds: 'We are looking forward to bringing L&E's centralized systems and the most advanced technology solutions to the Kansas City and East Bay Area markets to connect our clients with our community giving them the broadest access to participants in the U.S.'

Web site: www.leresearch.com .