FMI, NRF Teaming on Risk Mitigation

The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and National Retail Federation (NRF) will join forces in 2018 on Protect, billed by NRF as “the largest, most important retail and restaurant loss prevention event in North America,” the two trade organizations revealed at the Audit, Safety, Asset Protection Conference (ASAP), in Orlando, Fla. Beginning next year, the groups plan to merge their existing risk and safety events into a single cross-industry gathering.

“Respecting the changing grocery landscape and the intense consolidation our industry has witnessed over the last several years, our trade groups are making similar strategic decisions to maximize efficiencies and deliver greater value to the audiences we serve,” said Leslie G. Sarasin, president and CEO of Arlington, Va.-based FMI. “Our partnership with NRF on Protect 2018 will afford our food retail members the opportunity to expand their horizons, network in a larger sphere and get at the root of what they seek to do best – mitigate risk.”

“Securing retail brands, assets, people and profits is the essence of Protect's brand promise,” noted Matthew Shay, president and CEO of Washington, D.C.-based NRF. “We are enthusiastic to amplify the sphere of influence of this gathering and ultimately help deliver the resources and information necessary to safeguard, prepare, protect and defend the nation’s commerce streams.”

Additional information on Protect in Dallas, slated for June 11-18, 2018, will available at this year’s Protect, which will be held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., June 26 -28.

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