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Burt P. Flickinger III

Burt P. Flickinger, III, (born 1952) is Managing Director of Strategic Resource Group (SRG). SRG is a consumer industry business consulting ﬁrm headquartered in New York City. Burt P. Flickinger III is widely known and recognized as a leading expert on all aspects of the supermarket wholesaling and retailing industry. He has worked as a consultant for top retail chains around the globe. His family has been in the wholesale, vertically and horizontally integrated private label production, manufacturing, and branding businesses for four generations since his great grandfather founded S.M. Flickinger Company – the largest supermarket wholesaler/retailer headquartered in the eastern U.S.

Family History and Early Life

Flickinger III is a great-grandson of the creator and founder of the ﬁrst full-line private label program (U.S. and international) and the ﬁrst international retail franchised businesses in history. In 1899, S.M. (Smith Michael) Flickinger started the nation’s ﬁrst vertically and horizontally integrated farming and manufacturing wholesale and retail business with fully integrated farm-to-factory-to-store-to-family table distribution. It was the ﬁrst nationwide voluntary retail association with store equity partnerships for voluntary retail chains, co-op retail chains, independent retailers, store managers and associates.

Also, S.M. founded Federated Foods and Private Label Companies, which Burt, Sr., Glenn Flickinger, and their sons Tom, Billy, Peter and Burt Jr., donated to endow, build and later expand the modern University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. S. M. Flickinger and Burt Flickinger Sr. helped co-found IGA in 1926. His grandfather, Burt P. Flickinger, Sr., ran the World War II U.S. food distribution effort for President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1941-45.

His father, Burt P. Flickinger, Jr., a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, won the prestigious NAWGASMI award for four consecutive years for managing the most efﬁcient distribution and voluntary retail chain business in the U.S. He pioneered retail ﬁnancing and equity retail partnerships, in-store banking, sports marketing and television advertising in retailing.

Burt Flickinger III was born in Buffalo NY and is the oldest of 3 children. He attended Lafayette High School in Buffalo and is a graduate of Vassar College with a B.A. degree Retail Industry Management.

Career

S.M. Flickinger

Flickinger III began his career as an executive with S.M. Flickinger (the largest full-service institutional and retail wholesaler and retailer in the eastern half of the U.S.). At S.M. Flickinger, Burt worked in management, retailing, merchandising, brand marketing and manufacturing, buying, marketing/advertising, private brand development, retail site selection, operations and logistics and debit/credit loyalty card marketing.

Proctor & Gamble

Flickinger III worked for Proctor & Gamble serving as the Eastern U.S. Manager for P&G’s multi-disciplinary business team in marketing, ﬁnance, manufacturing, logistics, sales, and consumer and competitive analytics for P&G’s national/international major retail chain customers. At P&G he helped codevelop and initiate P&G’s ﬁrst customer sales, marketing, retailing and analytics group and multi-functional business teams. Burt led the creation of multi-retail channel cross-functional business teams.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Glenndinning

After working 11 years at P&G, Flickinger III worked as a Director of Price Waterhouse Coopers Consumer Products Companies and Retailing Consulting Practices and Vice President of GLENDINNING International Consulting Practices (the ﬁrst of the major worldwide consumer industry consulting ﬁrms) in business strategy, marketing and retailing consulting for leading consumer goods companies.

Strategic Resource Group

Currently, Flickinger, III is Managing Director of Strategic Resource Group (SRG). SRG is a consumer industry business consulting ﬁrm headquartered in New York City. SRG’s work spans consumer and competitive strategy, marketing/advertising, effectiveness on copy/creative to media buying, cost efﬁciency in broadcast TV/radio, magazines, integrated & social media---as well as, retailing, real estate, buying/merchandising, operations, and strategic sourcing. SRG has completed a number of consulting engagements for the top consumer industry Fortune 500 companies.

Personal Life

Flickinger III and his wife, Catherine, reside in Manhattan, New York with their two sons, David and Nicholas.