About Park Street
Park Street delivers productivity-enhancing and cost-saving back-office solutions, advisory services, and working capital to more than 1,000 alcoholic beverage brands from the U.S. and around the world. The company was launched in 2003 and is headquartered in Miami, FL with operations across the U.S. and E.U. Park Street was founded by McKinsey & Company alumni and is led by executives with long-standing industry relationships and decades of experience with global beverage companies.
The firm’s major practice areas are 1) Back-Office Solutions, including regulatory compliance, logistics, national importing, distribution, warehousing, order-fulfillment, accounting, customer service, and more; 2) Advisory Services, including business building, route-to-market planning, organizational effectiveness, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, negotiation support, and more; 3) Working Capital in the form of early payment solutions. With its extensive expertise in the alcoholic beverage sector, Park Street provides suppliers comprehensive, turn-key solutions across its practices areas, all within the context of exceptional professional service delivery.
Executive Leadership
Chris Mehringer – Founder/President
Park Street was founded in 2003 and is led by Dr. Harry Kohlmann and Mr. Chris Mehringer, who serve as Chief Executive Officer and President, respectively, in which capacities they oversee all aspects of the company’s operations and growth, including business development, strategy, innovation, and supplier services.
Formerly, Dr. Kohlmann was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company where he worked extensively in the fast moving consumer goods sector in North America and Europe with a specialty in alcoholic beverages. Dr. Kohlmann has advised leading global beverage companies on topics ranging from new product initiatives, operational effectiveness, and growth strategies to acquisitions and portfolio management. Dr. Kohlmann holds an M.B.A. and Ph.D. (Economics) from Germany’s University of Cologne. He is fluent in English and German
Formerly, Mr. Mehringer served as president of a national consumer products distribution company, where he oversaw all aspects of operations and growth and developed and maintained strategic relationships with Fortune 500 consumer products companies. The company was acquired by Sanare. Mr. Mehringer is a founding member of the board of directors of the Developing Minds Foundation and an advisor at the Harvard Innovation Lab. Mr. Mehringer holds an M.P.P. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.
From its executive leadership to its support staff, Park Street maintains a results-driven, professional services culture.
The Park Street Advantage
Park Street invests heavily in AI-driven systems to streamline importing, distribution, logistics, and back-office operations and provide suppliers a cost-effective, compliant, and secure route-to-market platform. Park Street was founded on the professional service standards of McKinsey & Company, and its talented people – from software engineers to U.S. customs specialists – distinguish the company through their expertise, responsiveness, and commitment to putting suppliers’ interests first. Park Street provides a fully integrated route-to-market solution, which in addition to importing, distribution, and logistics, includes working capital offerings, tax and duty drawback services, tariff management, customs brokerage, and educational and advisory services. With more than 100 years of combined senior management experience, Park Street leverages its scale advantages and expertise in operations, strategy, logistics, systems development, finance, regulatory compliance, deal structuring and negotiation, and network and database security to help suppliers overcome challenges, accelerate growth, and capitalize on opportunities.
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