Dexter Floyd elected to Campbell University Board of Trustees

     Dexter Floyd, of Kinston, N.C., has been elected to the Campbell University Board of Trustees. Floyd is the co-owner and operator of a chain of 24 Piggly Wiggly grocery stores in eastern North Carolina.
     Associated with the grocery business since the age of 14, Floyd became manager of his own store at age 25 and managed stores in Myrtle Beach and Georgetown, S.C., before moving to Kinston to become a retail supervisor at the Piggly Wiggly Distribution Center. Soon after, he was promoted to district manager of the Piggly Wiggly corporation and placed in charge of store planning. In 1976, he and partner Leon Sylvester, Jr., bought a Piggly Wiggly store in LaGrange, N.C. The business grew to encompass 24 stores, including two pharmacies, and employ approximately 1,500 people.
     Active in his community, Floyd serves on the local board of directors of Wachovia Bank, the North Carolina Food Dealers Association and Food Farm Inc., the organizational arm of the cooperative of North Carolina Piggly Wiggly stores of which he was instrumental in developing.
     He is a member of First Baptist Church of Kinston, where he is a deacon and serves on several committees, including Building Grounds, Personnel and Finance.
      This is Floyd’s second term as a Campbell trustee. He also served on the board from 2002-2005. He was honorably discharged from the South Carolina National Guard, where he achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant. He and his wife Dorothy have one son Gregory Everette Floyd, a 2002 graduate of Campbell’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law.