We prove that if X is a paracompact space which has a neighborhood assignment x -> H(x) Such that for each y is an element of X the closure of the set (x is an element of X: y is an element of H(x)) is compact then the products T x X, for every paracompact space T, and X(omega) are paracompact. The first result answers a problem of H. Junnila. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.