PUBLISHER’S LETTER

April Anniversaries

April is a great month for me both personally and professionally. Twenty-eight years ago in April I married my best friend and very special lady, Cindy. Ten years ago in April, I committed to another relationship with Jim Lee, and we began work on a very special project—LossPrevention magazine.

This April Cindy joined me and a hundred loss prevention industry executives and spouses to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the magazine in one of the prettiest locales in North Carolina, if not the country—Asheville’s Grove Park Inn. Ask anyone who attended, and I’m confident they will urge you to visit this unique, historic hotel and resort if you ever have the chance.

Normally in April, we host a meeting of our editorial and vendor advisory boards, usually joined by the LP Foundation board of directors, to discuss the state of the magazine and brainstorm ideas for articles and new directions for the magazine. Because of how proud we are of our first ten years of publishing, we decided to hold this year’s meeting in a location that would lend itself, not only to business, but also some fun and entertainment.

I wish we could have invited everyone who contributed to the success we’ve enjoyed these past ten years as well as the LP professionals who have read the magazine and, hopefully, bettered their careers because of it. That would have been some party…one that would have filled an NFL stadium.

Instead, we hosted a small group of key industry executives who manage some of the largest and most successful loss prevention organizations in the country and some of the most important service and product suppliers to our industry. We are fortunate that these busy, hard-working individuals are willing to offer their time and insights to contribute to the direction of the magazine. As Jim and I repeated numerous times to those attendees, without their support, this magazine would not have been possible. We certainly appreciate their efforts, and you, our readers, are the primary benefactors because their support allows us to put this magazine into your hands six times a year.

At the risk of appearing overly mushy, let me publically express my gratitude to everyone who was able to attend our celebration as well as to those who were unable to attend due to scheduling conflicts and, in some cases, tornadoes. Thank you from myself, my good friend and partner, Jim, and all the terrific men and women who work with us on this very special project we now call LP Magazine.

For more details about this meeting, please see pages 26 – 27 and visit our website to see both photos and videos from the event.

Jack Trlica

Editor and Publisher

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