- December 4, 2025
If you buy a Miller Lite (or other brands on a long list of beverages — alcoholic and nonalcoholic) at a store or restaurant in Volusia or Flagler counties, you have likely been served by S.R. Perrott. It's one of those behind-the-scenes family businesses with a big impact on the community: Now with 180 employees, beverage distributor S.R. Perrott was founded in 1962.
The company is named for Samuel Ralph Perrott; his granddaughter, Eva McMullin, is currently the assistant general manager and corporate secretary. She is also a former president of the Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce, and she said her parents gave her the best advice she ever got.
“I’ve taken different pieces of advice from each of them,” McMullin said, while sitting in the conference room in late June 2025, about one year after her father died on June 22, 2024.
McMullin’s father, R. Gary Connors, was very involved in the day-to-day operations of the business. “He checked in with everybody,” she said, “so he’s missed a lot.”
The advice he always gave was, “Do the right thing.” That means being honest and truthful with suppliers, but McMullin remembers him applying that saying especially when it related to employees.
“If he saw an employee who was struggling, he wanted to do the right thing for that person, not just for profit,” she said. He gave second chances. And more than once, he helped pay bills or even loaned cars to employees.
He’s no longer in the office, but, that spirit of giving remains in the company, McMullin said.
The advice from her mother — Michele P. Connors, president and owner of S.R. Perrott — is equally simple: “Don’t procrastinate.”
In McMullin's roles, she's often presented with fresh challenges daily, disrupting any routine. But if she doesn’t respond to those surprises quickly, they pile up, and it gets harder and harder to catch up.
“I don’t like waiting on people, so I try to put myself in their shoes,” McMullin said. “I want to get it done right away.”
Michele Connors; McMullin; and her sister, Colleen Connors-Timko, who is the vice president of sales and the corporate treasurer, are all helping S.R. Perrott to evolve, expanding to new beverages as the market evolves. For example, sales of “functional beverages” have grown, so they’ve added Moss (promoted by soccer star Lionel Messi) to their roster.
Where does S.R. Perrott have a presence? “Every store in Flagler and Volusia,” McMullin said.
