AboutEric Hofer Expertise Over 27 years experience, with 17 in international FMCG in back office operations and in field sales and data collection, including design, development and deployment of Handhelds, Marketing Equipment (Service, Tracking and Return on Investment), reporting and Vending management. Have participated on the launch of operations in new markets, and re-engineered the back office in several countries.
Experience Designed and led the development and deployment internal ERP system for Pepsi used in On-Premise/Vending in 13 markets.
Designed 2 handheld systems, the latest is now deployed in 4 markets internationally.
Re-engineered the back office functions (settlements, despatch, invoicing, credit control, etc) for over 20 snack, confectionary and beverage operators.
Developing software: Progress, VB, Access, C, Sybase, SA
Organizations Innovative-Selling Solutions
Publications BudapestSun
Education/Credentials State University of New York - BA Economics
NYU - Courant - Graduate work - Computing
Past/Present clients PepsiAmericas
PepsiCola International
PepsiCola Company
British Steel
British Telecom
Britvic (Pepsi's bottler in the UK)
AT&T
BellSouth
Mars Overseas Bottling
Pepsi France
Matutano (Frito-Lay Spain)
Frito-Lay
Pepsi Foods International
Chase Manhattan Bank
Kidder Peabody
National Power
SmithKline Beecham
Mars Overseas Bottling (Pepsi Azerbaijan)
A&P Bottling (Pepsi Serbia & Montenegro)
Iberia Bottlers (Pepsi Georgia)
Question Hi Eric. I am recent college grad and I am looking to venture into my own business. I'm interested in opening a Beverage distributor of beer, juice, water in the Miami-Dade area. I am having difficulty finding how difficult it is to obtain a liquor license in Florida and which licenses are necessary for what I am looking to do. If you please point me in the right direction it is greatly appreciated.
Answer Perhaps I'm missing it, I cannot see what's difficult. The MyFlorida site gets you going.
and it offers contact details etc. If it's short on info then they should be advised ASAP as it's their responsiblity to provide all the data you need.
If you're going to get into this business and you're stumbling here at the first hurdle, perhaps you'd be better off getting educated by a distributor first before you sink in your own capital.
