PROFILE: BOB FLICKER
Celebrating a half century with East Penn
East Penn’s multiskilled, much-liked chief operating officer Bob Flicker is set to retire later this year. Little did a young Bob Flicker realise that a temporary job as a punch press operator at a small to medium sized battery manufacturer in Pennsylvania known as East Penn was to result in a spectacular career. Or later for him to become part of a core team that would catapult the company into the top tier of international battery firms. The year was 1972. And Bob, recently graduated with a degree in physics from Moravian College, and was looking to further his education. Only two short years before, he had married a young nurse called Deborah, who he’d first met at high school, and the first of his three children, Brett was already on the scene.
Little did a young Bob Flicker realise that a temporary job as a punch press operator at a small to medium sized battery manufacturer in Pennsylvania known as East Penn was to result in a spectacular career
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