Samford University pharmacy alumnus Eddie Davis has been named a 2010 Retailer of the Year by the Alabama Retail Association.
Davis, president and pharmacist at York Drug Inc., in York and The Drug Store, Inc., in Livingston, won the Silver Award in the largest of three sales categories: that of annual sales more than $5 million. The 1985 Samford graduate also owns York Drug Home Medical in Demopolis and Fayette.
He received the award during a September 22 Retail Day luncheon at Cahaba Grand Conference Center in Birmingham. Kelley Jordan, former executive director of the Sumter County Chamber of Commerce, nominated Davis for the award, citing the pharmacist’s ability to keep his businesses alive when many are closing in their rural area.
Davis serves Samford’s McWhorter School of Pharmacy as a preceptor. His son, Logan Davis, Pharm.D., is a 2008 graduate of the Samford pharmacy school.