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Alabama Retail Association Names 2012 Officers and Directors

Thursday, January 12, 2012
MONTGOMERY – Jan. 12, 2012 – The Alabama Retail Association has completed its slate of officers and board of directors for 2012. Their terms of office began Jan. 1. The board’s first meeting for the year will be Thursday, Jan. 19. 

The ARA officers for 2012 are:
  • Chairman: Dianne Wammack, president, Cameras Brookwood, Vestavia Hills;
  • Vice Chairman: Morris M. “Mickey” Gee Sr., professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham and retired owner, The Pants Store, Leeds/Crestline Village/Birmingham/Trussville;
  • President: Richard E. “Rick” Brown Jr., Montgomery; 
  • Treasurer: Bob Akers, vice president, Davis Direct Inc., Montgomery; 
  • Secretary: Virgie Todd, Montgomery.

Wammack, Gee, Brown and Akers serve as the ARA’s executive committee along with Immediate Past Chairman Jimmy Ray Smith, vice president of Jimmy Smith Jewelers in Decatur, and George Wilder, president and owner of The Locker Room in Montgomery and Auburn and TLR Outdoors in Montgomery, who is the executive committee designee.

The other 2012 directors for the Alabama Retail Association are:
  • Wogan Badcock III, W. S. Badcock Corp., Mulberry, Fla.; 
  • Chris Birdsong, Premiere Entertainment, LLC, Montgomery;
  • Frederick W. “Ricky” Bromberg, Bromberg & Co. Inc., Birmingham; 
  • Kealon Drake, Moe's Southwest Grill, Auburn/Birmingham/Homewood/Hoover/Opelika/Vestavia Hills;
  • Bobby Efurd, Efurd and Sons Inc., Cowarts;
  • Howard Johnson, Sneaky Pete's Hot Dogs, Bessemer;
  • Denise Knox, Private Gallery Inc., Fairhope;
  • Doug Markham, Books-A-Million, Birmingham;
  • Cindi Marsiglio, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Tallahassee, Fla.;
  • Vince McAleer, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Hoover;
  • Mike Mitchell, Publix Super Markets Inc., Lakeland, Fla.;
  • D.W. “Dee” Moody, Moody True Value Hardware Co., Montgomery;
  • Melissa Parker-Paul, Yancy Parker Lifestyles Inc., Enterprise;
  • Irvine Porter, CVS Pharmacy, Bessemer;
  • Robert A. Robicheaux, UAB, Birmingham;
  • Tammy Rogers, Beaumont Pharmacy & Gift Boutique, Birmingham;
  • Fred Roth, Best Buy Co. Inc., Bessemer;
  • Ross Ryals, Collegiate Bookstores Inc., Montgomery; 
  • Leo Shaia, Shaia’s of Homewood, Homewood;
  • Stuart Shevin, Standard Furniture Co., Birmingham 
  • Dennis Stewart, Piggly Wiggly Alabama Distributing Co. Inc., Bessemer;
  • Jack A. Taylor, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham;
  • Gerry Totoritis, Associated Grocers of the South, Birmingham;
  • John M. Wilson, Big Bear of Luverne Inc., Luverne.

Ex-officio directors, who include past presidents and chairmen, are: Rodney Barstein, Simply Fashion Stores, Birmingham; Jerry Beasley, Beasley Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Ozark; Darrell Bourne, Ragland Bros. Retail Co. Inc., Huntsville; Peter V. “Greg” Gregerson Jr., Gregerson's Foods, Gadsden; Ken Hubbard, Western Supermarkets, Birmingham; Claude “Bud” Kitchin IV, Cooper Construction, Lincoln; and Bobby Little, Rite Aid, Tuscaloosa.

The Alabama Retail Association represents retailers, the largest private employer in the state of Alabama, before the Alabama Legislature and the U.S. Congress. Our 4,000 independent merchant and national company members sell food, clothing, furniture and other general merchandise at more than 6,000 locations throughout Alabama. ARA promotes what is best for the retailing industry in Alabama and has been doing so since 1943. From legislation to education, through communication and member services, ARA members benefit from the value of membership in their association. Retail works!

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