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John Eul, Business Solutions and Pricebook Solutions
John Eul is the principal of Business Solutions and Pricebook Solutions, retail consultancies specializing in providing retail automation strategies addressing all elements of the convenience and petroleum industries.
Business Solutions serves the Petroleum Convenience Alliance for Technology Standards (PCATS), the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL), the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Biometric Committee and the Uniform Code Council (UCC). Major areas of focus have been the development and implementation of global open site architecture and device interface standards, XML/EDI guidelines and documents for lottery products and the development of Biometric and RFID based retail applications. John serves as technical editor for the INCITS M1 POS Biometric document and as a charter member of the MIT Auto ID EPC Alliance committee is authoring a white paper addressing the use of RFID data across the global supply chain.
Pricebook Solutions, a software neutral company, provides the industry with hands-on support for their pricebook and point-of-sale (POS) scanning software implementations and offers expertise in marketing strategies, management programs and financing.
In addition John possesses over 20 years of extensive management experience in manufacturing, distribution and retailing. These encompass the areas of sales, marketing, business development, asset management, strategic planning, real estate development, financing, lease negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, business process reengineering and management.
As the Executive Vice President and CFO of Honey Farms, Inc. for ten years, he focused on the daily operation of the company, which included the handling of all real estate development, financing, lease negotiations, store design and remodeling programs. He established both branded and unbranded gas and fast food programs and created a telecommunication subsidiary. He implemented energy management and recycling programs and instituted a self-insured health care plan. He designed and developed an electronic commerce solution effecting both control and labor savings in the areas of cash management, lottery and electronic pricebook.
John was the CFO of Handy Markets, Inc. & Convenience Distributors, Inc. for five years prior to joining Honey Farms. His areas of responsibility were acquisitions, financial reporting, cash management, bank relations, insurance, investments and MIS. He implemented revenue and cash forecasting systems and coordinated the conversion to an IBM System 38 with store interfaces.
In addition to his experience within the Convenience Store Industry, John was the CFO and Acting General Manager for the Grosse Pointe division of Farm House Foods for three years. He was responsible for all the accounting, credit and data processing for the wholesale operation, and he supervised the daily warehouse and transportation operations including all union labor negotiations. He also approved and administered a 9 million dollar customer loan program and aided in the planning and building of a new 275 thousand square foot warehouse facility.
John was also the Assistant Controller of S.C.A. Services, Inc. He handled over 140 acquisitions for the 500 million dollar Boston conglomerate and established 5 regional offices in the process. He reorganized the accounting and tax reporting functions, supervised corporate and internal audits and coordinated the conversion to an IBM 370-145 mainframe.
John holds a B.S. in Accounting from Roosevelt University. He is a noted retail industry speaker and editorial contributor to numerous industry publications. He has served on the New England Convenience Store Association Board of Directors and their Massachusetts Legislative Committee. John also served on the Verc Enterprises, Inc. Board of Directors and on the Massachusetts Municipal Association Committee on Electric Utility Restructuring. John is a past member of the Kemper Insurance Policy Holder Board of Directors and was the Chairman of his Town of Oxford’s Finance Committee for eight years.
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