WELCOME TO SOUTHERN PROFESSIONALS INC

WE ARE..

YOUR PARTNER, YOUR PROFESSIONAL SALES TEAM, EXPERTS IN THE VALUE CHANNEL

Our mission is to guide our retailers and manufacturers as they navigate through the purchasing, promotional, and customer service process.

What We Do

We specialize in building new brands and launching private label programs.

Maintain Key Relationships

Relationships are the secret to our success.When challenges arise, we have the right connections to get them resolved quickly and deliver a win-win for everyone involved! Merchants are constantly changing to new positions and moving to new retailers. We make it our job to stay on top of all these changes and know who is managing what desk.

Private Brand Management & Product Launches

With our Item set up experience our team protects your brand and reputation with on-time item creation. Decades of experience with 1WorldSync, Retail Link, and Aspect. Post Line Review Modular and Replenishment Analytics allows us to provide best in class category management and replenishment expertise. WIth a weekly analysis we provide each client a customized weekly KPI report, a “starting point” of our weekly analysis process. Understanding the bigger picture is one of our core strengths. We will guide you while we help grow your brand.

Advanced Analytics

With Forecasting Recommendations our method includes and incorporates all steps of the supply chain, production process, and timelines. We also supply our clients with “recommended” forecast for production planning. Our Price Elasticity Analysis takes the guess work out of the impact of price changes. Our proven method will give you a greater degree of confidence on how a price increase or decrease will impact unit volume. Our Goal is to help you make the most informed decisions in every situation.

Content Management

We work with the dot-com retail teams to upload new items, maintain current images and product description. Online sales continue to grow and it is important to provide up-to-date information and messages to the customer.

Retail Analysis

Demographic Information Leverage – Our category management leader will be able to analyze “who” our customers are by using Walmart’s Retail Link extracted data to aid in growing store points of distribution.

Customer Insights

We have a depth of experience and knowledge in the retail industry to help give you the proposal advantage over your competition. We have over 20 years’ experience with Walmart/Sam’s Club and over 50 years’ experience with Discount Stores.

Marketing & Promotion

With years of valuable experience and service in the retail industry, we are able to provide excellent recommendations and counsel to our clients in order to maximize in store sales.

Local Contact

We provide buyer and support team immediate response for questions and needs. This is a critical element to secure major import or domestic business with Walmart. Every sample you send to the Buyer will be hand-delivered by a member of our Team.

Administrative Assistance

Includes uploading Certificates of Insurance into ClearTrack system, Managing Vendor Non Compliance concerns, Generate Quote Sheets, Transportation claims, and many other issues that arise during daily operations. We provide assistance in managing certifications, Vendor Non Compliance concerns, and Transportation claims. Additionally, we assist in managing service issues and help manage PO’s.

Let Us Help You Get your Product In Stores

Southern Professionals, Inc. is a full-service brokerage firm partnering with manufacturers and retailers since 1979. We are a team oriented company that works very closely with our buyers and manufacturers to ensure our clients achieve excellent results and substantial business growth.

Retailers we specialize WITH

Years in business and experience with these retailers

Our Process

Testimonials

Southern Professionals is here to help grow your business. We are passionate about providing the most outstanding service possible and since 1979 we have built our company on strong relationships and providing the best service possible.

Southern Professionals have consistently provided us with exceptional service, always handling our requests with a sense of urgency and professionalism. Their guidance and expertise have been instrumental in the growth of our business at Walmart, and I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a reliable and dedicated retail broker.

Shay Fisher

Diamond Cosmetics

I've had a great relationship with southern Professionals for 20 years now. I have had fantastic results with Southern Professionals over the years in a lot of different categories and Southern Professionals has represented me very well in the marketplace.

Marc Rynn

OraLabs Inc.

What I can tell you is Southern Professionals works fast, really fast. So I spoke with Bert and said, "we have energems, here's the idea. We think this is a great fit". Bert looked at us, look at his customers, said "I definitely see the fit" and two weeks later we had an appointment. Four months later, we were in over 10,000 stores, so pretty darn good results.

Joe FairLeigh

NRG Innovations, LLC

We've been working with Southern Professionals for probably over 20 years. I'd say about 22 years. The main thing I think about when I think about Southern Professionals is their follow-up is excellent whenever we have appointments and things like that, they make sure that the things that are asked for get taken care of. The great relationships that they have with the buyers. That's really valuable in our industry; to make sure that you got somebody you can trust and that they have a solid relationship with the buyers. So that's really important for us too. Results have been great. I would say that the one that's most exciting for us, we've been in Dollar General now for about three years, but it took us a few years to get that put together. But with Southern Professionals help, with Al, we just started working where we kept going and kept pushing and eventually got it in there. and Bert has such a great relationship there that that solidified the whole process and now we've been in there three or four years and it is a great piece of business for us that was totally nonexistent before, so we really appreciate that.

Larry Burris

Tec Laboratories, Inc.

Our Team

Bert Blackburn

Waylon Smith

Dr. Hayes Wade

Lisa Akers

Rick Sailing

Dena Harris

Oriel Jones-Stanley

Rachel Newman

Jodie Peterson

Dhei Cruz

Justine Cruz

Bree Cannon

Kate Price

Andrew Carney

A COMPANY THAT CARES

One of our core values at Southern Professionals is to serve and give back. Each quarter we donate a portion of our revenue and personal time to serve people in our community and throughout the world who desperately need our help.

Our Roots.

"We’ve been serving the value channel since 1979. It has been great to build distribution for our clients and work with such great companies along the way."

Al Blackburn

Founder

Contact Us Now to get started

Southern Professionals has convenient locations in Bentonville, Arkansas and Atlanta (Woodstock), Georgia to better serve you.