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7/2/2025
Freddie Davis, founding father of Gulfstream Shippers Affiliation (second from proper), is joined by his spouse, Teresa (far proper) his daughter, Tiffany Bowman (second from left) and Dan Hunt, chair of AHFA’s Specialised Furnishings Carriers, upon receiving the group’s 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Freddie Davis, founding father of Gulfstream Shippers Affiliation together with greater than a dozen different profitable companies within the furnishings, transportation and worldwide delivery industries, has acquired the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Specialised Furnishings Carriers division of the American House Furnishings Alliance (AHFA).
The Alvin W. Daughtridge Lifetime Achievement Award was created in 2019 to honor executives whose contributions have had an enduring impression on the furnishings transportation business and people whose character and management have served as a task mannequin for others. Davis was honored with the award at AHFA’s 2025 Logistics Convention in Asheville, North Carolina, on June 17.
In partnership together with his spouse, Teresa, Davis established a legacy of entrepreneurship by efficiently founding, constructing and promoting firms centered on each home and worldwide delivery and transportation. The couple based Gulfstream Shippers Affiliation in 2017 as furnishings manufacturing more and more moved offshore. The affiliation organized delivery contracts for its members to safe and keep aggressive charges from ocean carriers. Along with Gulfstream Shippers Affiliation, he at present serves as chairman of Pelagic Consulting, which offers marine structure, engineering and challenge administration companies. His daughters, Tiffany Bowman and Terra Bryant, have adopted their dad and mom’ entrepreneurial footsteps, with each at present heading up their very own companies. Bowman is CEO/president of Bluewater Logistics Group, and Bryant based her personal consulting agency in 2022.
In presenting the Specialised Furnishings Carriers Lifetime Achievement Award to her father, Tiffany Bowman mentioned Davis’ profession has been distinguished by being a “true accomplice and true good friend” to these with whom he did enterprise.
“It’s secure to say that he’s been greater than a good friend of the business and to all of us. (He’s been) a frontrunner, a thinker and a visionary of the alternatives and the longer term,” Bowman mentioned.
Davis is a graduate of Chowan College, which offered him with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 1981. The Murfreesboro, North Carolina, establishment acknowledged Davis for excellent contributions to his neighborhood, his profitable profession and his “unwavering dedication to excellence.”
Davis continued his schooling at Appalachian State College (ASU), graduating in 1984. He’s a passionate champion for the development of producing, expert commerce and provide chain schooling and was a founding board member of each the Provide Chain Council and the Carol McCloud Entrepreneurship Summit at ASU.
Davis is an business and neighborhood chief who has served on quite a few boards of administrators, trustees and advisors. He served on AHFA’s Specialised Furnishings Carriers Board from 2016 to 2018. He’s equally dedicated to philanthropy, contributing to collegiate applications, the Ronald McDonald Home Charities, Samaritan’s Purse and native youth organizations.
About AHFA: The American House Furnishings Alliance, primarily based in Excessive Level, N.C., represents 265 main furnishings producers and distributors, plus about 150 suppliers to the furnishings business worldwide, together with the 21 members of the Specialised Furnishings Carriers division.